I overlooked that since I do not care about the financial return on this platform. By coincidence, it drew my attention to a very important point in the policy of ‘Medium,’ and although I have been here for three years, I had not been aware of it at all.
The story was as follows: I decided to stop writing so I could respond to friends, read their articles, and comment on them. I stopped for six days without writing or publishing anything, and I only focused on reading the articles and commenting on them. My article balance at that time was only three dollars.
I read numerous articles and commented on all of them over six days, meaning my interaction with everyone, if not excellent, was at least good. In return, my followers continued to read articles related to me in decent numbers, but the balance of reading my articles remained unchanged by the time of writing this article, which is the seventh day, at three dollars as well… isn’t that noteworthy?
All of this indicates that your reading and interaction with others, in addition to others reading and interacting with your articles, mean nothing, and no profits are calculated for your efforts and writing. Why? Because you, a devoted writer, have not written or published anything! Efforts must always be made tirelessly for our account and our account only. It seems this is what they want to convey to us.
I believe that these facts completely contradict the platform’s slogan of supporting writers and its claims that our monthly subscription goes to support each other. The facts say that we are supporting the platform’s profits only to grow more and more, and all we do is pay them monthly and work for their benefit at the expense of our efforts and time, if we don’t do that, we won’t deserve the crumbs that are thrown to us.