I’m just now seeing this so it’s not that it really matters but this topic:
Was specifically for recommendations of stories that are under 1k and are not the recommender’s own story.
It got merged with this topic:
Which was originally a R4R and doesn’t have the same rule of ‘less than 1k reads and not your own story’.
I don’t think those are duplicates at all, since the bigger topic is more of a self-promotion thread and the first topic has a different purpose. It felt like merging the topics just brushed over the whole ‘don’t promote your own story just other people’s’ rule. So instead of finding stories people are passionate about, it just got drowned out by all the self-promotion and expectations for a R4R.