Summary

The author of the article expresses dissatisfaction with Medium's platform changes, challenges, and distribution of earnings, threatening to leave if their demands are not met.

Abstract

The article titled "Medium! Stop Doing This or I Quit" is a rant by an author who has been publishing on Medium since 2012. Initially expressing gratitude for the income earned, the author quickly shifts to a tone of entitlement, demanding that Medium cease experimenting with new features, particularly those that promote content from other writers. The author also takes issue with not winning the Medium Writers Challenge despite entering with their usual content. Additionally, the author is upset about the redistribution of earnings to new writers, claiming their work on sophisticated topics like bitcoin and sex deserves more financial reward. The article concludes with an ultimatum to Medium: meet the author's demands or risk losing them to another platform.

Opinions

The author is against the introduction of new features on Medium, especially if they promote content from writers other than themselves.
They feel entitled to win the Medium Writers Challenge and are frustrated for not receiving the top prize.
The author believes their consistent writing on niche topics should guarantee higher earnings and is critical of the platform's support for new writers.
They claim to write for creative expression rather than money, yet their dissatisfaction is clearly tied to financial incentives.
The author is critical of Medium's decision to redistribute earnings to new writers, suggesting it comes at the expense of established writers like themselves.
Despite the article's tone, the author denies being motivated by financial gain, asserting their identity as a creative writer.
The author subtly promotes their referral link throughout the article, despite claiming not to be a marketer or salesperson.

This is a rant

Medium! Stop Doing This or I Quit

I’m not writing this article only for money

Hey Ev,

I first joined Medium in 2012 and have been ungrateful ever since.

Five months after joining, I started making good money on the platform and broke the four digits mark (see my photoshopped screenshot for proof).

Since then, I’ve been feeling entitled to my earnings and would like to trash talk you for the next four minutes of this article because — you know — why not?

Let me be straight with you, Medium.

If you don’t make the changes that will bring my earnings to the maximum amount I ever got, I will go elsewhere. Yes. I will go to another platform and publish my perfect writings there. No hesitation. And I will NEVER come back.

And, no, I won’t tell you which platform, and it’s not because there aren’t any other platforms like yours.

1. Stop experimenting with new features.

I don’t like change. I don’t want change. I want the money you owe me for being such a topest top writer. And I don’t want to be grateful for what I got so far. No. I prefer to complain about what I didn’t get yet in the future.

Case in point, the new sidebar. What a failed experiment! If you were showing only my articles there, maybe it would be interesting.

But you’re showing articles written by others!!

What do you have in mind with this, the readers? Do you want them to discover different voices and different takes on the same topic, or what? Let me take care of this, I can write everything, and it’s contrary, no problemo, I don’t have any work ethics.

Anyway, writers are creative people.

2. Stop organizing Writers’ challenges that I don’t win.

The MWC could have been a good idea. You were so close to nailing it. I had high hopes for you, but you flunked. You know why? Because I didn’t get the $50,000. That’s why.

INCREDIBLE.

I write high-quality articles on niche topics needing research, such as bitcoins, the financial markets, and how rich people keep all the money instead of using my referral link to get their friends a Medium membership. How selfish can they be?

And I did exactly the same for the Medium Writers Challenge. Precisely. I picked one of my usual topics, wrote the usual stuff, and added the MWC tags. I did this four times in case you felt generous and wanted to give me all the prizes.

But you gave me ZERO.

Anyway, I don’t write for money. I write to express my creativity.

3. Stop redistributing my earnings to new writers.

That’s the last straw, Medium!

Seriously.

I’ve been writing consistently excellent content on this platform for years now. I know it’s consistently excellent because I’m always writing about the same thing, the topics I’ve researched extensively for five minutes total and keep on delivering to your platform every day, or weeks when I’m lazy.

And these aren’t the regular clickbaity topics, mind you. I’m writing about the undercurrent of our economic systems. I help readers develop new opinions on the political quandaries of our times.

And you will surely agree that bitcoin and sex are the stylish and sophisticated topics to do so.

Anyway, I’m a creative writer. I don’t write for money. I write for the pleasure of exploring niche and elegant topics.

So, please Medium,

Stop dropping my stats and my earnings.
Stop giving the grand prize to other people when you organize challenges.
Stop taking from my hard-earned dollars to give them to new writers that have something to say with a voice to say it.

If you do all that, I’ll stay on the platform.

And if you don’t, I won’t hesitate to quit and go somewhere else.

You can count on my ethics.

Ps: I’m a creative, I’m a writer! I’m NOT a marketer! I’m not a salesperson that continuously promotes its referral link to get new members on the platform in exchange for a commission. Even if it’s a recurring commission for as long as the new members keep on paying their monthly price. Even if it’s 50% of the said price after payment processing fees.

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