NO that is not my primary reason. Primary reason for posting is it is Headline news and would be posted anyways. Why should I not be able to post? It will be posted sometime in the next 2 hours anyways.
The 'new' page is a spare resource, there's a limited number of people looking over it so if it is flooded with bursts of new posts then the ability to promote worthy news to the main page is damaged as the amount of time spent in the 'new' section decreases and you're not bringing new independent eye-balls to evaluate and upvote them.
There is a rule for dealing with this scarcity: don't bulk-post. Take your best guess for the most worthy news, post it and then respect the waiting period before you post again.
> Why should I not be able to post? It will be posted sometime in the next 2 hours anyways.
This shows a sense of entitlement that not only goes against the spirit of the community but also against the published guidelines as others have mentioned. Here's a list of some guidelines you've either ignored or are ignorant of:
> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
('what to expect' at CES isn't exactly intellectually gratifying, and certainly not two stories about the exact same topic within minutes of each other)
> If the original title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link anyway.
(Almost every link you submitted)
> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
(Such as "10 Transportation Trends That Rocked 2010 | Autopia | Wired.com")
> Please don't submit so many links at once that the new page is dominated by your submissions.
(Obvious)
If you're unsure about what is expected of a community, there's a couple of approaches you might adopt. You can bombard the community with a ton of questions which, depending on the community, many not go over well... like your "Ask HN" about how to search HN -- is it really too difficult to find the "Search" link on the footer of every page? Or you can adopt the age-old tradition called lurking.
I didn't downvote that comment, but only because I can't. I obviously can't speak for those that did, but I'd downvote your reply because it seems more an ill-formulated rationalization than an actual answer.
Posting a link just because it "would be posted anyways"? That, to me, is an admission of sorts to gaming the system; that you're "sharing" those links only for the karma, not because you're genuinely interested in the content you're linking to.
There is a rule for dealing with this scarcity: don't bulk-post. Take your best guess for the most worthy news, post it and then respect the waiting period before you post again.