not really - my experience with submitting posts to hn is that they pretty much get ignored. assuming i'm reasonably typical, and don't have an intrinsic knack for being the only person on all of hn to find something interesting, i can definitely see why some people would be driven to hack whatever external factors they feel are leading their posts to be likewise dead-on-arrival.

then again, i don't read the new queue either, so i guess i can't complain. maybe reddit's system of posting a different article from "new" in a box at the top of the page every time you refresh it would help fix the problem.