We have dozens of items, so there's no way we're going to be able to keep them all on the front page. That's what the master list is for. That is basically how people used to vote in the old threads too. Instead of copying and pasting though, they can just hop into the threads and vote.
I'm discouraging bumping for purely bumping sake. People can add comments to keep things active if they want, but I don't like raw bumps. If it happens more, I'll start deleting them. (Hopefully then the threads will fall back to where they otherwise would be.) I also have no problem with people voting and noting their vote in comment form (which can help keep threads alive). If items are important to people, I assume they will keep voting for them and commenting on them. If they aren't being kept alive, then either people have finished voting, or people are no longer interested.