Well It seems pretty fair to me since I’ve read alot of stories with like thousands of total reads but they didn’t even hooked me till the end of the first episode. 
However, I’ve seen many stories on the app with like only a few reads but they did contain that wow factor and hooked me till the end due to interesting content provided to the reader.
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Yeah it’s fair if it depends on reader retention, but it’s not fair if they ignored that retention as long as it’s before the deadline. 🤷
But… Those who read the story before the deadline, probably won’t read it again after it.
So based on what you’re saying, a writer can have say 100 reads, but will only count as 3 because only 3 people read it after the deadline.
I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t seem fair to me. 🤷
It is fair. Let’s take someone who published their story before the deadline and got 100 reads, now someone who posted their story on the deadline and got 100 reads too. The first person only got 10 reads after the deadline so it makes 110 reads in total. It would mean the first person beat the second one just because they wrote faster or because their backgrounds got approved faster. See it isn’t fair to the second one because it isn’t their fault maybe they had something important to do and couldn’t publish faster than the first one or maybe their backgrounds weren’t approved faster.
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Me too I think
It’s a percentage and not total reads anyway. So if person A had 100 people read their story before the deadline but only 5 read it afterwards and all 5 read the story completely, then their retention rate is 100%. If person B had 100 people read their story after the deadline but only 50 people read all the episodes, then their retention rate is 50%. It doesn’t matter that they have more reads.
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Ooooh, now I get it 
Thank you so much for explaining 
No problem 
Also, even though it’s recommended to post close to the deadline, there have been several past winners who posted a couple weeks before and clearly it didn’t set them back
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Amazing, thank you 
So awesome! Submitted mine already…just need to complete it before the deadline
So excited! This is the first time entering such a contest! I’m so happy that I gave it a try and did my best 
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Omg wow I love the idea of your story 
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Thank you!
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Reading it as we speak and I LOVEE it!!
Lucky… I can’t make it…
The quotes
How stories are chosen:
And…
They already mentioned it to you, but just thought that I’d add this in anyway ^^
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Oooh 
Thank You sooo much you’re the best. 
Will replays count towards reads/reader retention again after the deadline?
Will we get an email if we submitted it correctly? I’d hate to lose because of that.
Yes! You will get a confirmation email.
Make sure you check! A friend of mine never got the email and it turned out Episode never received her form so her entry was invalid 
Sometimes the form glitches I guess.
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