I don't know how much of that behavior we can absorb without turning off our current stackers.
Just like Bitcoin, whose estuary was born within the cryptography and cypherpunk community met first a river then a sea of people, it's inevitable that SN will too.
Perhaps we could learn a lesson from the samurai in The Seven Samurai and let only a few people in at a time.1
I think I've heard k00b speak about doing things gradually.
We might not be grateful for a swarm of hornets just yet.

Footnotes

  1. Maybe not a great analogy - they all were killed!