How Blacklisting Hurts Us All

And why Medium.com should stop trying to tell us what is “good” and what is “bad” and simply “let it be”

Statisticians at Early Clues, LLC were recently alarmed to discover a rogue referrer attempting to break through our anti-rogue referrer firewall which we installed on our secret back-end workaround on Medium.com:

http://medium.com/_/admin/blacklist

We immediately summoned an available FLYERFY to scan this address for “bad vibes”, and were not surprised to find a level of “some to moderate” after further deep research into Medium.com’s “secret blacklist”:

https://medium.com/@gueldner/medium-after-dark-486e662ccbcf

Agent @gueldner, self-described “Perpetuator of Happiness” at Medium.com, jokes blithely over obliterating selflessly user-generated content, suggesting he will make a field-excursion to “negotiate removing him from the spam list if he can craft a better Medium story about this emerging situation.”

So it appears that despite Medium’s world-famous ‘best practices post’ from which we learned so-so-much, Medium.com employs a semi-secret team of ‘spam police’ who have some kind of ‘final say’ (using vague undefinable calculations) over whether or not what users contribute from the goodness of their hearts is “worthy” of being part of this “hallowed collection,” which is billed as “Everyone’s stories and ideas”… Hmm, Wikihow not to run your business much?

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