Okay here's my 2¢ worth on the various options under consideration:
1) The ability to add and view comments on episodes.
Pure greatness.
2) Content tags on episodes (ff, gts, etc).
Look, I know some people hate seeing certain kinds of episodes, and it *would* help me avoid stuff like Ranma 1/2 and skinsuits. BUT I have stumbled upon some awesome stuff just by clicking on the episode number and title, without knowing exactly what I was going to get. In fact Madison would not have been created if I wasn't clicking on stuff at random. The net result of tags will be people clicking on less episodes, or only on the kind of episodes they are used to. Less eps clicked = less storylines read and less creativity and spontenaity.
3) The ability to add additional options to existing episodes.
Doesn't "something else" cover this? What if an author finishes a long cohesive story, and someone decides to add a dumb episode to the finished work? This is going to cause some people a lot of frustration. Part of the fun in a collaborative enterprise like the BEAddventure is using other people's ideas, and having their contributions to your story **77** you to (maybe) go in a direction you might not have wanted to go. End result: less collaboration, as the original writer ignores the new writer's contribution and forces the story to go where he or she wanted in the first place. Other person gets frustrated and stops contributing. It will happen.
4) Automatic author statistics (average episode length, etc.)
This would be interesting...maybe in the future. It's got almost no support right now, but I would be in favor of doing it later.
5) The ability to vote for favorite episodes.
Kind of problematic. Can you vote for your own? Can you vote for eps that branch off from your own? Can you vote for your own character or situation, used by others? Could I go through the whole Addventure, and find every ep where Madison is mentioned, and vote for those eps? This could turn into a huge ego trip for some authors.
6) Show backlink sources in target episodes (episode 2 would have quite a lot).
I'd love to see this one happen, but there is no support for it right now it seems. I think it's a big missing piece of the entire "backlinking" dealie. Oh well.
That was my 2¢, as I said.