The oddest thing happened today: I submitted a CUFP (Conway's Game of Life), and waited for it to get approved. While I waited, I checked the policies and opinions on self-approval and self-frontpaging :) which basically echoed what I already felt about it (wait patiently and let someone else do it).
, I refreshed the screen and saw the article actually gained a reputation point! But it's not even been accepted yet! Can we vote on not-yet-accepted submissions? (I guess so!) Should we really be able to??