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 expe

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. </small-n-speculation>