I did make the front page once, but actually it only happened after a moderator "re-upped" it and sent me an email. This put it in the "second-chance pool" as h

I did make the front page once, but actually it only happened after a moderator "re-upped" it and sent me an email. This put it in the "second-chance pool" as he called it which will randomly put it on the front page at some point. I think once it got on the front for even a short time, enough people up voted it to sustain it for a while. I guess very few people look past the front page, and even fewer in the new section.