Response To the “Boost” mechanism on Medium (response to Breana Jones, product @ medium)
Hi Breana,
I have already read “The Boost” article, and from my point of view, its sole purpose is to go in the direction of paid writers. Besides, you introduced the complete procedure where someone will be under heavy bias as sources are publications and their curators.
I strongly discourage such a process as many publications “owners” are not eligible or qualified in any way to make suggestions.
We cannot measure writing, and there are many different tastes in the reader’s community.
It is about the art of writing and not only the content. For example, I often use the “block” function as I cannot stand that inexperienced, non-educated youngster talking about investments, especially in cryptocurrency.
What do they know about that? Nothing. How much is their writing worth? Zero. From any point of view. It cannot be considered an art; knowledge is close to zero, and they are only blindly following how to write a clickbait article title. No less, no more.
After that, you have a lot of authors (I intentionally don’t use “writers”) whose writing is worthless as they write very shallow articles (as they are not capable of going deep) about ordinary things.
I can continue. Let us look at @Tim Denning’s work. Ninety-nine percent of his article are easily readable, and the diversity of themes shows that he is a wise guy who does research for his writing. I deeply admire his work.
What about fiction writers? Where should they publish their work? I am a fan of such work as I like such short forms.
From time to time, I find articles from real experts. You can imagine their stats – almost zero, as their writing does not fit into today’s regular. Of course, I would like to know how to make 5K monthly from writing, but a large percentage of content on Medium is nonsense.
I even conduct a small test with a clickbait title (some crap like “how to make hundreds of thousands using Medium”). The exciting thing is that this article is my – most-read article.
I am living from my company (I can write an article about what we are doing, but 99.999 percent of readers need help understanding such content as it involves applied mathematics).
What are you doing wrong? You will boost non-worth articles and eventually reach the point when the only content is for shallow, greedy, and stupid people looking for quick earnings.
What will happen next?
Medium will fail.
