Note as some may be confused by the "1 hour ago" with comments older than that: this submission was rescued by dang when a previous discussion existed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883341
fwiw I think the rationale behind it is counterproductive because the only difference between a OP submitting their article link and someone else submitting their article link is internet points.
I was fairly confused myself as the author :)
This was actually my original submission last week. There was a front page submission last night from someone else (hence the comments). Then my old post got re-upped just now (1 hr ago)