I'd be unhappy if my participatory node-resorting feature were removed to replace it with your acceptance-metric. This brings up the related question - most of the time the vote total on any node is hidden anyway. Most people don't sort nodes on reputation (I do). This means that neither of our outcomes are helping these two other populations (people who don't vote / can't vote (the other 2/3rd of the population that is anonymous for instance), people who aren't logged in and haven't chosen to sort by rep).