There's too much fixation with "top" in our industry. Top voted tends to mostly be a function of early posting. Later posts don't get votes because they simply

There's too much fixation with "top" in our industry. Top voted tends to mostly be a function of early posting. Later posts don't get votes because they simply were not seen. There seems to be a misreading on a mass scale of what "top" really indicates though; people think it means "quality" when it does not. Study after study, website after website, policy after policy, our online world is built on this fundamental misunderstanding of what is really going on. How do you avoid piling on to this misunderstanding?