This is our long-running experiment in story re-upping. I&#x27;ve described it at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10705926" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10705926</a>, but it might be time for a fresh explanation.<p>Moderators and a small number of reviewer users comb the depths of &#x2F;newest looking for stories that got overlooked but which the community might find interesting. Those go into a second-chance pool from which stories are randomly selected and lobbed onto the bottom part of the front page. This guarantees them a few minutes of attention. If they don&#x27;t interest the community they soon fall off, but if they do, they get upvoted and stay on the front page.<p>We want to turn this system into something that&#x27;s open to all users who want to take time to review stories. We&#x27;ll make it a form of community service that will be a new way to earn karma. However, it&#x27;s still an open question how to pull this off without simply recreating the current upvoting system under another guise.<p>There&#x27;s one glitch that occasionally confuses people. When the software lobs a story, it displays a rolled-back timestamp—not the original submission time, but a resubmission time relative to other items on the front page. If you see a timestamp inconsistency on HN, this is probably why. Edit: if this is the kind of detail that interests you, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19774614" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19774614</a> for a more recent explanation.