Starkey
Starkey
Nov 3 · 1 min read

I clap for effort, also, Dave. I always leave some kind of a mark on a story I’ve read. “A story I’ve read” means a story I’ve opened. I read everything top to bottom unless it’s complete shit, but I’ve only come across 3 of those on Medium. Complete shit means unreadable to me; dishonest propaganda or a rambling non-idea. And, I clap for everything I read, using anywhere from 1–50 for the algorithm.

If it’s great (Life-altering literature) I give it fifty claps and some highlights or a response to help the algorithm see it. August Birch wrote a great article on the pay change and how the claps no longer matter moneywise Urgent News: A Major Change in the Medium Payments Just Happened!. He has a few more after the change that I haven’t gotten to yet. Articles about making fat stacks.

Emma Smith wrote a great article on the new formula: Improving how we calculate writer earnings. She says the claps are more to alert readers and algorithms and claps equal cash by attracting readers. I never look at the claps before I read something).

I thought Medium had a secret formula, like the elusive NYT Bestseller criteria, to figure out pay. It explains a lot now that I know people thought claps = pay. I was getting a lot of reads, on some stories, but no claps. I guess people thought every clap they spent came out of their own clap-pocket. :-)

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