It's been interesting watching the upvote count on this. I was the first upvote, then later on once it had fallen off the first page of /newest it still only had a few upvotes and I assumed it would die. Now after the mod intervention it's been hanging around the second and third page of /news for the last day and to my surprise has 37 points.

Since browsing /newest a lot more in the past few months, I've noticed how a single person can have an outsized impact on the visibility of submissions. The first upvote is really crucial, it seems people tend to notice anything with "2 points" or above and then with only a few more upvotes in quick succession a submission will start to get visiblity on /news. One morning a few weeks ago I cast the first upvotes on two separate submissions, and then later in the day both made it to the front page.