Two more questions for you and the team, Tony:

1) If the 'Featured Stories' functionality works partly/mainly by pushing those FSs to the pub's readers, doesn't this favour pubs with huge follower counts? Whereas the Boost is seemingly 'pub-neutral' and will have the same effect whether the piece is self-pubbed or in a flagship pub.

If so, this would be doubly unfair, as many of those 'big pubs' - you know the ones I'm talking about...- are among the worst offenders when it comes to lax editorial policy, and publishing (even nominating) AI-generated content.

2) If there are 4 FSs/pub/month, doesn't that incentivise people to set up 10 personal pubs, to get 40 FSs for their own work? Will there be a limit/ban on self-featuring, as with the 2/month for Boost nominators. And policing of feature-for-feature deals among bad actors, where writer 1 sets up pub 1 and uses it to feature stories by writer 2 who has pub 2, and vice versa?

Anything that boosts distribution, and hence earnings, will be subject to attempts at abuse and gaming from Day 1, as you know.

These strike me as potential weak points for exploits.

Hope this is useful, and would appreciate any response.