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Yes, but it's the first (or second?) time anyone could actually see that. This article triggered some strange bug in HN's software, so that only I could see it on the /new page. 'dang asked me repeatedly to resubmit.

Probably second time, because of the four points above. The two points are the mod's autovote for invited submissions.

It would be interesting to look at the distribution of points for articles that get submitted multiple times -- there's obviously a lot of variability! I'd expect it to look vaguely power-law-shaped, because articles that get upvoted more have more opportunity to garner upvotes, so random noise can catapult something to prominence if the article itself is interesting.

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Resubmissions are allowed and there's even a thing for moderators to automate it hours or maybe days later on submissions they like.

not saying it isn't, just a comment I think people could be interested in