That would depend on how fast the new submissions were coming in. I suspect that at some level of popularity the current model would break and you would simply have to split up the site along thematic lines.
Maybe that points has already been passed, hard to tell, the line is pretty blurry.
Maybe that points has already been passed, hard to tell, the line is pretty blurry.
The bigger power is the 'flag' option vs the voting, voting changes the ordering of things, flagging changes what gets to be voted on. But even that has its limits, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=823567 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=823568 are still active three hours after being flagged.