Well last week we had a post about posterous adding markdown and syntax-highlighting and it got 99 points on the front-page. Now we have this post, about them adding the ability to create pages, on the front-page with 17 points after 1 hour.

I might be interested in hearing about major or innovative new features at posterous but these seem to me to be fairly standard features for a blogging platform and thus not very newsworthy. We don't get front-page stories every time wordpress or tumblr add a new minor feature.

So why are people upvoting this? Is it people who are posterous users and who are upvoting it as a sign of approval? Or people who want to show their support for posterous because they're a YC company. Or are there people who genuinely think that the fact that a blogging app now lets you create a page is really interesting tech news.