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It's possible for HN readers to make suggestions for the pool, and I'll do this periodically.

Usually it's for a story which simply died in queue, which as TFA notes, is the default. Occasionally it's to see if a discussion might get "re-railed" after it's gone off on some tangent --- people responding to a title or an early comment, most often.

I don't nominate my own posts, of course.

It may be a matter of how many such nominations occur, but I'd say my success rate is >50% in having those accepted.

TL;DR: it's not just dang, and normal HN'ers can participate.

>>dredmo+(OP)
It's nicest when people don't nominate their own posts, but plenty of users do that as well.

>>dredmo+(OP)
I didn't know we could do that. What's the process for nominating a story?

>>kuu+gF1
I'll just email with a title "2nd-chance nomination: story-ID title"

And include the link in the post.

The story-ID is the numeric part of the post URL.

For this thread, where the post URL is

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024032

The story-ID is 29024032

(Moderators can use the story-ID via browser extensions / bookmarklets, I just learned yesterday.)

Similarly, include the story-ID for other issues (e.g., editorialised or clickbait title, suggesting a canonical URL, vouching flagged stories, spam).