It's a rite of passage of sorts to have your Submittable status stuck on "In Progress" for the Paris Review for like 6 months. Though Taco Bell Quarterly might actually be more selective than PR at this point, strictly based on the numbers. For Chill Subs, I think if the popularity metric were cast as something like "most submitted to by our registered users" or something similar, that could help put the metric in context?