Ordering of answers for a question

Question

When we access a question on Stack Overflow, the answers for the question are arranged in such a way that the accepted answer comes first. Then after the various answers are mixed up in the descending order of post time.

Can we think of ordering them according to the votes they got so that users who are in search of the best solutions get the answers without being mixed up with those with low quality?

Answer 1

I think you missed the tabs at the top of the answer section -

You can order them by votes.... The accepted answer will appear at the top because...well... its the accepted answer :P

Ordering by votes will then place the highest community voted answer right beneath the accepted one.

Answer 2

There is only one accepted answer, and that's what it is for - there's one pinned answer when ordering by "votes".

I see nothing wrong with it.

Answer 3

To sort by vote including the accepted answer:

1. On FireFox, add the Chee's Javascript extension
2. On Chrome, add the Control Freak extension
3. Go on Stackoverflow
4. Click on the icon of the extension
5. Select edition on domain

6. Paste the following Javascript:

   if (window.location.href.includes('stackoverflow.com/questions')) {
       var answers = document.getElementById('answers');
       var elements = answers.getElementsByClassName('js-vote-count');
       var acceptedElement = null;
   
       for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
           var parent = elements[i].parentElement;
           if (parent.getElementsByClassName('d-none').length == 0) {
               acceptedElement = elements[i]
           }
       }
   
       if (acceptedElement != null) {
           var acceptedElementVote = parseInt(acceptedElement.innerText, 10);
           var betterVotedElement = null;
   
           for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
               var currentElementVote = parseInt(elements[i].innerText, 10);
   
               if (acceptedElementVote < currentElementVote
                       && (betterVotedElement == null
                               || currentElementVote < parseInt(betterVotedElement.innerText, 10)
                               || (currentElementVote == parseInt(betterVotedElement.innerText, 10)
                                       && elements[i].compareDocumentPosition(betterVotedElement) == 2))) {
                   betterVotedElement = elements[i]
               }
           }
   
           if (betterVotedElement != null) {
               var acceptedAnswer = acceptedElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement;
               var betterVotedAnswer = betterVotedElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement;
               acceptedAnswer.parentNode.removeChild(acceptedAnswer);
   
               if (betterVotedAnswer.nextSibling != null) {
                   betterVotedAnswer.parentNode.insertBefore(acceptedAnswer, betterVotedAnswer.nextSibling);
               } else {
                   betterVotedAnswer.parentNode.appendChild(acceptedAnswer);
               }
           }
       }
   }