The Unfair Punishment of Being Active
How Engagement Is Being Penalized!
We all know about the platform’s sweep.
So many writers disappeared, and man, it pisses me off so much. Quite some writers are back online, and some are still suspended. Perhaps for good reasons, perhaps not.
I first want to say something positive:
I appreciate it that the platform wants to deal with scammers and bots.
We don’t want them here either. But come on, how things are going now sounds far from professional to me.
A comment I placed upon the return of one of my mates here
I saw that R C Hammond is not suspended anymore. It was about time, as if there’s one thing I am damn certain of, is that he’s legit, human, and uses no automated shit to game around here.
Besides the fact that he was suspended, the email he got turned my stomach around:
Hello,
We have detected suspicious activity related to your account and have determined that it is in violation of our Rules:
https://medium.com/policy/medium-rules-305502c4eb4
- Performing a disproportionately large number of interactions…
