Not weird, timing is sometimes everything. Sometimes a perfectly good essay is submitted after everyone goes to bed, or they are too busy to read a long item so they don't vote one way or the other. If the post fails to get that crucial push of votes in the first hour, it dies.
The exact same thing resubmitted first thing on a Monday morning gets an entirely different reception. I guess that's just how things go, I hope people don't take this resubmission as spammy behaviour or as trying to steal karma from you :-)