Do you have the badge yet?
Introducing the Amazing Badge of Medium Commenting Excellence
It should be by Medium, but it will be by Smillew instead.
The problem with Medium is that they don’t listen to me when I send them brilliant ideas through the helpdesk.
“We are happy to hear you want to help us improve Medium. We think your idea is brilliant and will share it with the team next Friday. After that, we’ll park it with all the other ideas you sent since you joined Medium in 1992 and wait for mold to cover them.”
And if there’s one thing I learned from bad bosses before, it’s that if you want things done the way you want, you should do them yourself.
SO.
I decided to create the Amazing Badge of Commenting Excellence
This badge doesn’t come with a tote bag and is exclusive to the best and most prolific Medium commenters. There’s only one condition to get the badge.
You need your response count to be 9999.
All badge holders will soon see the badge on their profile. I sent the request to the helpdesk last month, and their answer was promising.
“Thank you so much for contacting us again. We missed you so much. That’s another of your brilliant ideas. We’re so impressed by your creativity. Rest assured, we’ll implement this new feature as soon as we finish adding India to the Partner Program and making the boosting ‘pilot program’ a hard-coded reality. Shouldn’t take more than two weeks (Venus time zone).”
Here’s what the badge will look like on our profiles:
While we wait for Medium’s helpdesk response, I have a workaround, and I will add badge holders’ names to this article.
Leaderboard of the Amazing Badge of Commenting Excellence
(in no particular order)
Ann James, May More 💜 Tales, Debdutta Pal, James Bellerjeau, Anthony (Tony/Pcunix) Lawrence, Benedette, Annie Trevaskis, 🌬️Mitch, Murphy's Law, Shanti C K, your name.
To be added to the leaderboard, email me a screenshot showing you have 9999 responses (photoshop or other comparable tools aren’t allowed. I trust you to be honest, or I will send my Grandma to visit you during your sleep).
Don’t worry! I won’t use your email for other purposes than making money with it.
Joke.
I won’t use your email for any marketing (affiliate or not) purposes and won’t add you to my mailing list of clever people — unless you ask me to.
Or forget about the email and simply tell me in the comments if you reached 9999. I trust you to be honest.
Joke. I don’t have a choice.
How to write 9999 responses?
It will take you (a minimum of) 100 days as Medium limits our number of comments per period of 24 hours to one hundred. If one hundred comments per day sounds like a lot, you’re not a serious candidate for the Amazing Badge of Commenting Excellence.
Should you need ideas to improve your commenting game, I can only recommend this curated list of tips from some of the best Medium commenters.
Examples include: