Aug 26, 2017 · 1 min read
I think the important part about claps is this, from Katie Zhu’s post that Ev linked:
“Our system will evaluate your claps on an individual basis, assessing your evaluation of a story relative to the number of claps you typically send.”
So, claps are on your scale — unique to each person. If I want to give one clap all the time and two claps if it’s awesome, I’m indicating to Medium what they hoped I would — I like that one better than other stuff. My scale, so far, seems to end up as 0…5:
- 0 = nope
- 1 = agree/nice/recommend
- 2 = pretty good
- 3,4 = fat-fingered 2’s and 5‘s
- 5 = really good, people should read this
