To clarify part of the article, the time granularity on the site isn't enough to pinpoint in what order the comments were made on the thread. Daniel Jennings' edit to his post existed before I posted my answer, so it's not his reply to my answer.
Every part of Stack Overflow is run and moderated by the community except one: the selection of the accepted answer. As long as you have one person in charge of selected answers you will always have to deal with their particular biases, which decrease the value of Stack Overflow as an objective reference to programming questions.
It might be a good idea that in addition to the answer selected by the asker that there be a community selected answer. This would be completely orthogonal to the up/down votes for the questions, and would only allow one selected answer per person per question. An approach like this would greatly serve to make Stack Overflow a more equitable and fair system.
In any case, I've had tons of fun learning new information and teaching people some of the tricks I know. I hope to see some of you there!