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I'm going to guess it's also an anti-spam mechanism. One of the easier ways to detect spam bots is the rate at which they submit. My only other guess is that it could also be a social mechanism, where it forces users to submit higher quality articles. If a user lost interest and won't come back and submit, then it probably wasn't worth submitting.

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Not really. There are articles worth submitting but because of user psychology and behavior it will not be posted. My logic is that the user will think: "Well, if you didn't want it when I was ready to give it to you, why bother to return and re-submit it". The software should come in the aid of the user, not the other way around. Of course, you might also take into consideration statistical behavior and think: "If a user will not submit it, then other user will come and do it" but that's really relaying on chance, and not a good plan to bet on it.

If the article is really valuable some other user would probably get around to submitting it sooner or later. on the other hand it would be nice to have a queue of articles you tried to submit and allow you to resubmit from that queue. some mechanisms would need to be put in place however to limit spammers (such as putting a limit on the size of the queue). but then someone else would come along complaining how the queue is not big enough....

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