Should editors be more transparent about their editorial processes?

"Writers could have a firmer sense of what is actually going on with our work."

Welcome to our weekend conversation!

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Readers have written to me recently with similar questions.

K wrote:

What do you make of magazines that publish the same author in several (even subsequent) issues? Looking at n+1: Paul Soto has published fiction 3 times in a short period. Given their acceptance rate is ~1%, how can the same person be published several times in a row? What's a slush-pile-writer to think?

M wrote: