[CamperBob]

Why not hide all submitted answers until 24 hours after the question is posted? Once this interval expires, there would presumably be enough of them to be shuffled and presented without any sort of fastest-gun bias.

Optionally, question submitters could pay for "Urgent" status, where the submitted answers are posted as they come in. No ratings or votes would be accepted for the same cooling-off period, however.

[pbz]

I don't think you should hide the answers, but you should definitely hide the ranking (votes) for about a day (or half a day) or so. During this stage the answers would be randomly sorted. After a day you get to see the votes for each answer...

[dustingetz]

i posted a question because im stuck and i want my answer nownownow