I've submitted 18 articles, and 9 have made it to the homepage (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ironkeith" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ironkeith</a>). I am certainly not a power user, and I don't have a circle of friends who quickly upvote my submissions to game the system. So far as I can tell, people use the new page, and interesting articles make the home page.<p>That said, I also think it's really important to ensure that the title you submit is properly phrased. The articles that have received the most votes have inevitably been the ones I put some time into rewording to appeal to HN users.