No, it means that the small subset of the people visiting the new page in that period didn't find any of those stories worthy of upvoting. But as the relationship between people submitting links and people visiting the new page slowly changes the chance of stuff getting lost gets bigger and bigger.<p>Mahmud pointed out an excellent example of that happening and I have seen plenty of others.<p>Go visit the last page of the 'new' section and have a look at all the stuff that was lost. It's really a pity.<p>And plenty of 'fluff' does get upvoted.