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Ok, but this article doesn't explain any of those interesting things. Instead it says things like "We invite all hackers, seasoned validators and professional stakers to join Stake Heist, and unlock prizes totaling up to 10 Million ONE tokens." Promotional language like that is the opposite of what readers come to HN for. That's undoubtedly why users flagged the submission.

You'd be much better off writing an intellectually interesting article about the project. Here's the advice we give to everyone about how to do that: such an article should tell the backstory of how and why the project came to be, should explain the problem it solves or pain it addresses (or if it was done for fun, which is just as fine), should tell what's different about it, and should give plenty of interesting technical detail.

The votes and comments were obviously promotional, not organic. Regardless of exactly how that happened, it's definitely not in your interest. HN readers are experienced in picking up on that and classify it as spam or worse.

You're a good HN user and I'm not trying to shame you! just trying to explain what will work better for you.