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Voted up for being funny.....
But seriously, there's a problem with maintaining anything resembling a single conversation as the number of participants goes up.
My problem is more that I do not want to miss interesting topics as the members of this community usually have very insightful answers.
I sympathize.... but finding all the good stuff is hard enough now and I certainly don't succeed at it. What happens when there are ten times as many posters?
Reddit tries hard, but I don't spend much time there because the volume is so overwhelming.
Reddit has wound up as a repository of quite a bit of useful stuff though in that you can go to any subreddit and look at the all time most upvoted posts for it. This kicks out highly useful stuff such as how-to guides, buyers-guides, and general advice on a variety of esoteric subjects.
It seems like a winner-take-all problem in the comments to me. As LW sorts submissions by date and not by reddit's algorithm it is no problem to see valuable posts by their upvotes. In the comments however posts are sorted by votes and here winner-takes-all comes into play as most people only read the first couple of posts and late-comers drown out.
Above the top-level comment box, there's an option to sort comments by date. Perhaps that should be the default.