As an edge-case, I can imagine a frontpage post making a cutting remark about a person while still overall meeting the frontpage criteria, and then a person writing a response post just addressing the personal aspects of the cutting remark, and that not meeting the frontpage criteria.
I don’t think that’s what’s happening here though, this reads to me as substantively engaging (critically) with the core / thrust of the frontpage post it’s responding to.
As an edge-case, I can imagine a frontpage post making a cutting remark about a person while still overall meeting the frontpage criteria, and then a person writing a response post just addressing the personal aspects of the cutting remark, and that not meeting the frontpage criteria.
I don’t think that’s what’s happening here though, this reads to me as substantively engaging (critically) with the core / thrust of the frontpage post it’s responding to.