Handling "misvoted" content

Because I don’t think all votes should be considered equal (like a bunch of 0 rep users who upvote everything vs a 5 year old account with 50000 rep and some gold badges in tags attached to the question), I think users should be able to very prominently see indications of votes by users more likely to be knowledgeable in this area of expertise.

Something like a special vote (in addition to normal up/downvote). Like a reaction icon with the user’s mini-badge showing their “expertise” level like if they have a gold badge or other earned distinctions.

Also I think attaching these special votes should be attached to a specific content version and visible in the revision history. So votes like “this is a correct answer, but is written poorly” is not permanently attached to the post after it was improved through editing. Such a mark can then be changed to just “this is a correct answer”.

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