Ever get annoyed seeing some of your favorite stories languish in obscurity while mediocre tales and pointless trollfics sit in the featured box for days, to be read by thousands? Sometimes all it takes is bad timing for a good fic to slip off the front page with hardly any notice, and once that happens it's pretty much out of luck as it gets buried deeper and deeper under the overwhelming mass of stories.

This group is for those stories that deserve more attention.

Our intent is for people to recommend stories by other writers, so if you're here to promote your own fic, try Authors Helping Authors instead. That's literally why they exist. Also, The Underappreciated Story Society is a very similar group to this one that allows people to submit their own stories.

Since the intent of this group is to bring more attention to good stories that have gone mostly unnoticed, we need help finding them. So if you know of a story that seems woefully under-appreciated, go ahead and submit it, as long as it meets a few conditions. We want to make sure that the stories in this group are genuinely worth reading despite their lack of fame, so here are the guidelines:

- No more than 500 views.
- 90% minimum positive vote ratio.
- Stories with fewer than 10 votes may have 1 down vote, but be especially picky with those.
- Stories should be at least one week old.
- Don't submit your own stories. These should be stories readers enjoyed enough to recommend, and authors can be biased toward their own work.
- If you wouldn't up-vote a story, please don't submit it. Anyone could scour the archives for random stories you haven't read that happen to qualify, but these should be stories you have read and enjoyed enough to recommend. And try not to get carried away submitting huge numbers of stories. While not a rule exactly, it would be good if people limited their submissions to a few at a time.

The two Recommendations folders are for stories that don't meet the criteria for the main folders, but still deserve more attention, because it's impossible to make a perfect set of rules for something like this. Stories submitted to these folders should still be good fics that are under-appreciated, just a little less strictly defined. If you add a story with less than 90% up votes, use the proper Recommendations folder, or else it will be removed from the group.

Also, because many of these stories are largely untested waters, stories that start accumulating negative votes are subject to removal. No specific numbers at the moment, it's just a fail-safe to ensure a story's initial positive reception wasn't a fluke.

(These rules aren't locked in stone, of course, if some improvements look like they should be made. If the group ever gets to a point where it starts getting overwhelmed, for example, we might change to an approval system in which standard users submit their suggestions to a general folder, then the admins decide which of those will be added to the main folders.)