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The Official Unofficial Medium Guide to Clapping
A down and dirty cheat sheet for doling out your Medium claps
Congratulations! You finished reading that article that’s been floating around your Medium Recommendations like an over inflated pool toy for the better part of a week.
Now comes the hard part. How many claps should you bestow upon the fearless scribe?
Under clap and you risk insulting the writer. They spent three months traversing the Arctic in a bobsled for the sake of a Medium article, and all that’s worth to you is three measly claps during the closing credits of The Masked Singer?
Over clap, and you cheapen the sanctity of the Clap button. Articles about Medium, no matter how clever or helpful, are by definition low hanging fruit. Do you really want to encourage the duffers who write them to keep churning like an Amish butter wench the week before Rumspringa by throwing down 50 claps for telling you they earned $12 yesterday?
Don’t fret, friendo! As penance for leaning a bit too heavily on the meta-content crutch late last year, I’ve put together The Official Unofficial Medium Guide to Clapping!
Take it in and pass it on!
