I expected that new accounts wouldn't be able to submit anything until they have a couple points of karma (from upvoted comments). The problem is that the main

I expected that new accounts wouldn't be able to submit anything until they have a couple points of karma (from upvoted comments). The problem is that the main page of the new feed frequently has a max age under an hour (44 min., currently) - if something doesn't get any upvotes by then, it falls off the page and becomes drastically less likely to get any further upvotes. It also can't be resubmitted for several months. Slowing this down would almost certainly be good - quite a few interesting posts get submitted at the wrong time and never get noticed.