[icebraining]

Same content, different user.

And different day, different time, different selection of users looking at /new.

I'm not saying there isn't favoritism (and I don't think that's necessarily bad), but there's also plenty of randomness involved.

[bromagosa]

Well indeed, but the exact same URL, only submitted one month later, should at least have reverted some karma on the user who submitted the project originally. Especially if the project was of his own creation...