[sva_]

> Had multiple submissions get exactly zero interest I was certain would be bangers.

A lot of stuff simply gets lost on 'new'. I mean how many people even go there? I rarely do so myself. The cases in which I upvote a submission with very few points are usually when I want to submit something I found elsewhere and enter the link in the search before posting.

[addaon]

I believe if you submit a link that’s already on “New” it will merge them and automatically upvote the existing submission.

[sva_]

I think only if it got a certain amount of points or so. See i.e.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40616660 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40620056