Why does SO place too much importance on the asker's opinion anyway?
If the asker thinks your answer is good, votes up and ticks as answer, you'll get 25 points. But it takes three non-asker users' vote-ups to top that.
The accepted answer tick should be just a flag and give no extra reputation points if the intention is really about providing quality content for everyone. But the current system encourages "just getting that tick".