It really shouldn't be that hard. The behavior could work by question: it's fine to show the accepted answer while the original asker is maintaining the questio

It really shouldn't be that hard. The behavior could work by question: it's fine to show the accepted answer while the original asker is maintaining the question. But if a question gets a lot of new answers without the original answerer reacting any more, just change the algorithm to show the answer with the most votes in the pas month/year.