Alternate ideas:<p>(1) Make it so that each user only sees a deterministic subset of 'new' (unless they try really hard to enable 'all'). Essentially, this means every 'new' article is seen by a random panel of users, and stays on the 'new' page longer. Tinkering with the assignment function could achieve any balance between submissions/users/views/duration-on-first-page that is preferred.<p>(2) Segment 'new' by number-of-votes-already-received. Make the default 'new' only 1-vote stories. Only allow viewing and voting on 2-vote stories by people who have already cast a vote on a 1-vote story, and so forth. (That is, force people to pay more attention to those less-reviewed, before piling-on to already-popular stories.)