It's great that you are having ideas, and proposing them; don't stop.
The problem in this case is that your suggestion does not work for at least one known use case for the site: viewing from a text-based browser (such as eLinks, Links, or others). Currently voting works for such; with your suggestion the browser in most cases (that I'm aware of, at least) will not download the image unless specifically directed to do so.
You can at least see a relative ordering by sorting by "Best first" instead of "Oldest first".
