Oh - I'm not seeing any paywall.

Nope...

Thanks! We re-upped that one to reward the submitter, and moved the comments there.

Good question! Two reasons:

- First, the submission we've preferenced was actually submitted over 24 hours ago. If you look at the item IDs, you'll see that one is lower. And if you look at the list of submissions from theverge.com [1], you'll see its submitted time is currently shown as "1 day ago". When we re-up an older submission, as we've done here, we give it some "grace time", so that its rank isn't pulled down so much by the age factor in the ranking calculator.

- The guidelines ask us to "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." The article linked from this submission is re-reporting content from that article in The Verge, and it was The Verge who did the interview and broke the story. We consider it important to reward the publication that does the original news-gathering and reporting by directing the traffic to them, and also to reward the submitter who submits the original/best source of the story, even if they submit it later (though in this case they submitted it first anyway).

I hope that explains things!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theverge.com