For the choices- if you look at the rubric score, a combination dialogue choices and HMU choices will get you a 3.0 (out of 4). I think that’s a little less subjective, but the plot score is definitely subjective. I might find a story to be “slow moving and boring” but someone else might completely disagree with me. I’m not sure how you can make that section more objective though. A contest based on creative writing is always going to be subjective to an extent.
That was in reference to all stories, not specifically contest entries. I wouldn’t expect them to grade every single story on the app (which is what I think Jesse was referring to?). (I’m not saying that they do grade all contest entries, but I’m saying that they never admitted that they don’t.)
It would have been nice if they’d added a bit more to the article and how it relates to contest entries. There’s a lot of unanswered questions that could easily have been answered in that article.