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rs I see on Medium have started in 2023. I don’t know what it is about 2023, but it was like The Fuggin Year for people to join Medium.I like people who started in 2023. Most of my favorite writers started here in the 2020s. That’s cool. But you don’t get to complain about not getting paid enough when you haven’t even been here for a full year.As I scrolled through Mr. Entitled Writer’s post history, I found that he started six months ago and is already complaining about how everybody but him is responsible for his earnings being low.My man is literally blaming people who are clapping, highlighting, and responding to his articles, because they somehow violated Ye Ol’ Sacred 30 Second Rule.There’s no perfect way for Medium to decide how to pay authors. All methods can be abused.People were crying when Medium diminished the importance of read time. But read time is a terrible way to measure whether somebody liked an article, or whether the writer should get paid for that read time. It’s way too easy to abuse that system.Right now the game on Medium is engagement.This will change.The infallibl

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e minds at Medium will invent a new metagame that people will whine about because they got comfortable with the old system.Some of us will adapt to the new rules, others won’t.Every writing marketplace has rules. And spammers.Writing marketplaces are living organisms whose rules change constantly in order to reduce the number of spammers.Focus on developing your craft and engaging with other people.You will be able to repurpose your Medium posts elsewhere (as long as they’re evergreen instead of meta-Medium posts like this one).Medium might die tomorrow.That would really suck because I love this place and, for the first time in my writer career, I’m making money every day. (Not much money, but more than I’m getting from Amazon.)Writing is hard. Getting paid to write is harder. Getting paid well to write is like winning a race at Le Mans. You have to give it everything, and you can’t do it alone.We’re all coworkers here. We all have good and bad coworkers. Engage more with the good ones and ice out the spammers.Oh, and write more better articles.</article></body>

Entitled Writers Deserve Obscurity [Entry 3]

No, “hurried highlights” and “drive-by comments” are not sabotaging your writing career.

Here’s your real problem

Articles about Medium [AOMs] are fascinating to me. I love them. I read a lot of them.

My new favorite subgenre of AOMs is the one where people hyperventilate about:

muh 30 second rule

“Waaaah. People are highlighting, commenting, and clapping on my articles in under 30 seconds. My writing career is being sabotaged by spammers!”

That’s a pathetic mindset.

Look, you’re right, spammers on Medium suck. We all dislike them. But they’re not ruining your chances at success.

YOU are ruining your chances at success.

Right now, 90% of the authors I see on Medium have started in 2023. I don’t know what it is about 2023, but it was like The Fuggin Year for people to join Medium.

I like people who started in 2023. Most of my favorite writers started here in the 2020s. That’s cool. But you don’t get to complain about not getting paid enough when you haven’t even been here for a full year.

As I scrolled through Mr. Entitled Writer’s post history, I found that he started six months ago and is already complaining about how everybody but him is responsible for his earnings being low.

My man is literally blaming people who are clapping, highlighting, and responding to his articles, because they somehow violated Ye Ol’ Sacred 30 Second Rule.

There’s no perfect way for Medium to decide how to pay authors. All methods can be abused.

People were crying when Medium diminished the importance of read time. But read time is a terrible way to measure whether somebody liked an article, or whether the writer should get paid for that read time. It’s way too easy to abuse that system.

Right now the game on Medium is engagement.

This will change.

The infallible minds at Medium will invent a new metagame that people will whine about because they got comfortable with the old system.

Some of us will adapt to the new rules, others won’t.

Every writing marketplace has rules. And spammers.

Writing marketplaces are living organisms whose rules change constantly in order to reduce the number of spammers.

Focus on developing your craft and engaging with other people.

You will be able to repurpose your Medium posts elsewhere (as long as they’re evergreen instead of meta-Medium posts like this one).

Medium might die tomorrow.

That would really suck because I love this place and, for the first time in my writer career, I’m making money every day. (Not much money, but more than I’m getting from Amazon.)

Writing is hard. Getting paid to write is harder. Getting paid well to write is like winning a race at Le Mans. You have to give it everything, and you can’t do it alone.

We’re all coworkers here. We all have good and bad coworkers. Engage more with the good ones and ice out the spammers.

Oh, and write more better articles.