<p>Non-traditional methods for mining good and/or recent answers:</p>

<p>1- Search for:</p>

<pre><code>is:answer score:5
</code></pre>

<p>and filter by <code>newest</code>. It will appear all the newest replies with score equal or more than 5 (the threshold 5 was just one example).</p>

<p>To better understand how the search-by-score syntax works see this <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/188781/give-us-better-search-by-score-syntax">thread</a>.</p>

<p>2- Look for the lowest score responses from users with high <code>reputation per number of answers</code> ratio. The answers are very likely to be good ones.</p>

<p>3- Investigate replies from <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/users?tab=NewUsers&amp;sort=reputation">new users</a> sorted by reputation and I think good answers will pop up. Some of them already have statistics background and their contribution take some time to reach a good visibility.</p>
