Not a vote. A judgment.
Every submission is reviewed and selected by the team. First-pass triage — sorting, surfacing, flagging anything incomplete — is AI-assisted, but every final decision on what enters canon is made by a person, not an algorithm.
Community voting rewards popularity. This process rewards quality. There's no poll, no random draw, no chance element of any kind — submissions are judged on their merit against the criteria below.
Accepted or not, the burn already happened. 70% of every submission fee is burned on submission — not on acceptance. Selection decides what enters canon, not what gets burned.