I still haven’t figured how I can take claps back. What if I clap too much and think that I went a little overboard with the clapping? What if someone else trolled me by clapping on my behalf if they had my phone / laptop? No news on that yet. Earlier, it was binary. Click to like. Click again to unlike.
The other thing is that I feel this essentially has been put in place so that people feel that they’re getting a lot more engagement (and Medium as a result — is getting a lot more engagement) — than it actually is.
If you had 10 likes, 10 people have liked your content. If you have 20,000 claps — it could be from 20,000 people or from four (in the public eye — of course the blogger has access to deeper stats). I could look at the number of likes on a Medium post and go — oh, it’s well received. Now I look at the number of claps and I go — I don’t even know if this is worth my time.
