Thanks For Your Engagement — Now Cut It Out!
Confirmed by Medium: No more than 100 Comments in 24 hours
It’s official. No more than 100 stories in 24 hours.
Because a comment is considered a story (a topic for another day), you may not comment more than 100 times in a 24-hour period.
I wrote recently about getting blocked from commenting.
Why did it happen? There were questions, suspicions, and hypotheses. Also a few definitive answers. Thank you Smillew Rahcuef and Gareth Willey!
I promised a follow-up if I heard from Medium, and here it is:
Why Does Medium Do It?
As much as I’d like to believe it is to protect writers’ mental health by forcing us to take a break, I don’t think this is the reason.
A likely rationale is to prevent spam bots from taking automated actions that harm the whole platform.
- We can’t follow more than 120 people a day. All it takes is a click, so it’s easy to imagine some bot signing up tens of thousands or a million if they could.
- We can’t post more than 100 articles in a day. Same reason, I presume.
- And, as many of you have no doubt noticed, some utter idiots post spam comments.
You know, the copy-paste of a vacuous comment (“Great article! Thanks for sharing!”) with a link to their equally vacuous publication or a request to follow them.
I’m Still Here for You
Because I’ve hit that darn limit more than once I might not comment as quickly or as often as you’re used to. (Some of you are breathing a sigh of relief, I know.)
I am still going to chime in as much as I can if you make me think, make me laugh, or just write a great piece.
It’s your fault, really.
Be well.
Tagging those who left comments on the original piece so that you get notice of the follow-up: Marilyn Glover, Mukundarajan V N, Ann James, Roz Warren, Writing Coach, Marta Henriques, R C Hammond, Susie Kearley, David Weldy, Edith Gallagher Boyd, George J. Ziogas, Denis Gorbunov, Subhasinghe SPS, Adrian CDTPPW