DISCUSSION: Pros and Cons of having a lot of readers/not having a lot of readers

I always assumed that Episode used to feature primarily more “known” stories out of sheer laziness lol. They didn’t have to go “digging” to find lesser known authors to put on the shelf :rofl:
A year or so ago, you’d often find that those featured were “bigger” authors or authors who had previously entered a contest (even if they didn’t win, I assumed that if their entry still scored decently, the team may then read their other stories too).

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This :speak_no_evil:.

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Honestly I don’t think it would be that hard for them to find a “hidden gem”. They have a tool to find stories with high retention, they see the ratings given by readers so they don’t need to scroll through hundreds of stories as we do and that’s why I think there must be another reason for this.

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