Writers! Stop Leaving Links to Your Posts in Comments to MY Posts
Do this instead.
I am writing this post to put everyone who reads me — or who pretends to read me — on notice that I am now blocking anybody who responds to a post of mine with a link to a post of theirs.
I’m done giving you clowns the benefit of the doubt.
I’m done explaining why it isn’t okay to sneak a link to your latest Medium Masterpiece into comment about my latest Medium Masterpiece in an attempt to get a few more eyeballs on your work by hijacking my readers.
I don’t care if you think your post is really good and deserves to be more widely read.
I don’t care if you think that your post is related to, adds to or augments my post.
If you do this?
I will block you.
End of story.
I understand
I understand why you’re playing this game. Say, for instance, that I have published a post about Wombats.
And since this is a fantasy, let’s also assume that my wombat post has been boosted. It’s going viral! It’s getting a dizzying number of reads. Tony Stubblebine himself has commented that it’s the most amazing thing he’s read on Medium all day.