The problem is that if just 3 people auto-submit the post in the first minute, it's immediately at the top of the front page. Often, many people will reflexively upvote something by jacquesm, so the result is that a top slot on the front page is taken up for some time, perhaps by something that's not really worthy of discussion. This takes away attention from other, more worthy posts. There are only 30 slots on that front page.

This used to happen with 37signals too - I'm glad to see it stopped happening there. Time to stop autosubmitting jacquesm as well!