title: Ranking newer items fairly?
body: <p>Using StackOverflow itself as an example, if you had any such system where entries were voted and viewed in order of rank based on this, how do you compensate to sort newer entries fairly? That is, if ten bad answers are given and upvoted, how do you make sure people see the new entry that might be better, but hasn't had time to gather votes or even been seen all the way at the bottom?</p>