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NO MONEY FOR META
Look Out Writers! Here Comes March Meta Medium Madness!!
What’s Gonna Happen?
Attention writers! It has been decreed that as of March first you cannot put a post about Medium behind the paywall.
If you criticize Medium?
No money for you.
If you praise Medium?
You’ll get bubkes.
If you publish a helpful article that teaches Medium newbies everything they need to know to get started on the platform?
Medium will reward you with zero dollars.
How exactly will Medium implement and enforce this brand-new No Money for Meta policy?
At the stroke of midnight on February 28th, will Coach Tony pull a great big lever that makes all the Meta posts on Medium vanish?
Will Medium trust us to police ourselves?
Will Medium encourage writers to rat each other out by reporting it whenever a fellow scribe paywalls a Meta post?
Has the algorithm been instructed to scrub every Medium post you paywall that contains the word “Medium” “platform” or “Stubblebine?”
Has some poor Medium schnook been tasked with rooting through our work searching for Meta posts…
