<p>One great use of this website I discovered is digging through the highest voted answers authored by users with high reputation. I've discovered some really interesting discusions this way, and I recently developed a data explorer query to weed out the "most interesting" users on the site. I thought others might be interested and wanted to share my new tool.</p>

<p><a href="http://data.stackexchange.com/stats/query/129374/cv-users-with-most-interesting-answers" rel="nofollow">Query</a></p>

<p>The <code>cv_user</code> field is a direct link to the "answers" tab of the appropriate userpage, sorted by vote score. Also, I filtered out results from the "best statistical jokes" and "best statistical quotes" questions because I'm only interested in technical discussions. </p>

<p>My intention here is not to stir up a competitive environment or anything like that, simply to highlight users whose answer histories are rich with interesting discussions.</p>

<p>Enjoy!</p>

<p>Update: Per whuber's suggestion, here're some slightly modified versions of the above query</p>

<ul>
<li>Answers that received more than a threshhold of votes (default = eight) within a limited time period (default two weeks) of being written -- <a href="http://data.stackexchange.com/stats/query/129735?DaysThreshhold=14&amp;ScoreThreshhold=9" rel="nofollow">Query</a></li>
<li>Users who have submitted questions meeting the above criteria -- <a href="http://data.stackexchange.com/stats/query/129587/cv-most-interesting-users-only-counting-immediate-votes?DaysThreshhold=14&amp;ScoreThreshhold=8" rel="nofollow">Query</a></li>
<li>The unique questions associated with answers meeting the above conditions, sorted by the number of upvotes the "best" answer was able to achieve within two weeks <a href="http://data.stackexchange.com/stats/query/129799/questions-with-answers-that-received-lots-of-votes-quickly?DaysThreshhold=14&amp;ScoreThreshhold=14" rel="nofollow">Query</a></li>
</ul>

<p>If anyone else has other suggestions, I'm taking requests ;)</p>
