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1) Use https://news.ycombinator.com/active, where demotions aren’t applied (at least that’s my understanding). The submission is currently on the front page there.

2) For contacting dang, email hn@ycombinator.com. “@dang” doesn’t do anything.

>>layer8+(OP)
thank you for this -- was not aware, just updated my bookmarks to /active

>>layer8+(OP)
My interpretation of /active is that it is a strict activity based feed where the number of comments in recent time determine the position. The front page uses upvotes, flags, comment to upvote ratio, flame war detection and likely more stuff to determine the algorithmic position.

Looking at /active I can also see articles listed high with very small number of upvotes but with high number of comments.