User blog comment:EmpyrealInvective/Main Page Stories and You/@comment-26054278-20160127012812/@comment-24101790-20160127013718

I understand where you're coming from with your concern about admin's nominating as well, but a lot of it is that we're (more or less) combining potm with spotlighted pasta and don't want to lose our ability to give recognition too to people we feel put in the work. Without admin's ability to nominate stories, we could have issues of users flooding the nominations with stories that really aren't up to par (plush cats for example) that would result in us being forced to pick the best one out of stories that don't really showcase excellent writing.