Medium, for all the potential when begun, has dropped some clangers. Developer and database staff, for one. Breaking things when you’re trying for enhancements doesn’t make for consumer confidence. Changing the original payment algorithm was another but I suspect it wasn’t deliberate — more likely broken and no one knew how to fix it.

But no matter which way it’s sliced, those who are writing fiction, poetry, about writing and reading et al are a tiny minority of the users here. No one will be making money so the name of the game is visibility and generosity in promotion. Which costs nothing and virtually no time at all and can benefit both recommender and recommendee.

But we don’t live in that world, for the most part :)