<story><title>Bye – Why I&apos;m leaving Medium</title><url>https://medium.com/@charlesomeara/bye-11224eca4a99</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jaruzel</author><text>Micro-payments for publishing. Medium (and other quality essay sites) should charge per essay. Nothing too big, have a scaled system that is affordable to all. Even a small payment of 1GBP&amp;#x2F;USD&amp;#x2F;EUR per post is enough to keep the spammers away. It might not deter the paid for corporate shilling, but it would be a good start.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve not thought this through in depth - feel free to pick holes in it, but I firmly believe that the mess we&amp;#x27;re suffering on the self-published areas of the internet are because it&amp;#x27;s free-to-post. So to maintain a level of quality there needs to be some sort of barrier to entry.</text></item><item><author>i336_</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;There are far, far, far too many advice articles on this site. It’s one thing to say ‘I lost my job and this is how it affected&amp;#x2F;changed me,’ that’s personal experience. But advice articles always contain the same implied subtext: you’re doing it wrong and I’m the genius who is going to show you how to do it the right way. Hence, how to fix your relationship, how to manage your spare time, ten things your boss does that you haven’t figured out, etc. etc.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen this attitude in &lt;i&gt;so many&lt;/i&gt; different situations IRL and online. It&amp;#x27;s so refreshing to read it so clearly and fearlessly stated like that.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s unfortunate that Medium have attracted all the seagulls (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=p-3e0EkvIEM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=p-3e0EkvIEM&lt;/a&gt;), because they&amp;#x27;ve done so much awesome technical work on the platform, for example with editing (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;medium-eng&amp;#x2F;why-contenteditable-is-terrible-122d8a40e480&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;medium-eng&amp;#x2F;why-contenteditable-is-terribl...&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;How can platforms like Medium cultivate a culture that deprioritizes and devalues the types of spam content the article author is referring to?&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Accidentally pasted the quote twice, fixed (thanks yxlx)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kristianc</author><text>I can see that it would lead to a deluge of &amp;#x27;Like this post? Please consider donating so I can continue spewing forth banal crap I lifted from Internet articles about Elon Musk&amp;#x27; quite quickly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bye – Why I&apos;m leaving Medium</title><url>https://medium.com/@charlesomeara/bye-11224eca4a99</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jaruzel</author><text>Micro-payments for publishing. Medium (and other quality essay sites) should charge per essay. Nothing too big, have a scaled system that is affordable to all. Even a small payment of 1GBP&amp;#x2F;USD&amp;#x2F;EUR per post is enough to keep the spammers away. It might not deter the paid for corporate shilling, but it would be a good start.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve not thought this through in depth - feel free to pick holes in it, but I firmly believe that the mess we&amp;#x27;re suffering on the self-published areas of the internet are because it&amp;#x27;s free-to-post. So to maintain a level of quality there needs to be some sort of barrier to entry.</text></item><item><author>i336_</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;There are far, far, far too many advice articles on this site. It’s one thing to say ‘I lost my job and this is how it affected&amp;#x2F;changed me,’ that’s personal experience. But advice articles always contain the same implied subtext: you’re doing it wrong and I’m the genius who is going to show you how to do it the right way. Hence, how to fix your relationship, how to manage your spare time, ten things your boss does that you haven’t figured out, etc. etc.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve seen this attitude in &lt;i&gt;so many&lt;/i&gt; different situations IRL and online. It&amp;#x27;s so refreshing to read it so clearly and fearlessly stated like that.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s unfortunate that Medium have attracted all the seagulls (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=p-3e0EkvIEM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=p-3e0EkvIEM&lt;/a&gt;), because they&amp;#x27;ve done so much awesome technical work on the platform, for example with editing (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;medium-eng&amp;#x2F;why-contenteditable-is-terrible-122d8a40e480&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;medium-eng&amp;#x2F;why-contenteditable-is-terribl...&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;How can platforms like Medium cultivate a culture that deprioritizes and devalues the types of spam content the article author is referring to?&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Accidentally pasted the quote twice, fixed (thanks yxlx)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daveguy</author><text>Do you mean pay per article or pay per view? Per view would virtually eliminate the independent submitter and select for the spam and corporate shills. Who has the cash or wants to risk a penny per view (or whatever micropayment it is) except for corporate advertising? I don&amp;#x27;t think per article would fix the problem either. It is a sea of crap because of the quality more than quantity. If you are getting views then a penny or whatever micropayment per article is nothing. I doubt this guy would stick around if he had to pay per view and I doubt per post payment would limit the crap.&lt;p&gt;The most effective way would be some sort of peer reviewed limitation, but that is difficult to implement and would likely reduce medium&amp;#x27;s viewership (management says oh the horror of sensationalist articles in one direction and yes! Page views! in the other).&lt;p&gt;There will be a transition to another blogging platform that sets up the right barrier to entry &amp;#x2F; moderation. Personally I don&amp;#x27;t think it is monetary.</text></comment>