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Claps Before or After Reading the Article on Medium. Here's the Answer
One of the easiest ways to appreciate an article writer’s work on Medium is to hit the Claps button. Medium offers the possibility to give the writer between 1 and 50 claps, but a lot of people have asked me when it’s better to press this button, before or after reading the article.
I tried to find on Medium the answer to this question if it has any importance, then I tried to find an answer with AI but unfortunately I didn’t find anything that could help me so in this article I will tell you what is my personal opinion and I wait for you to tell me what you think about this question.
Having in mind the fact that to be paid for reading an article a person needs to stay at least 30 seconds, no matter if he/she presses the claps button or not, I think the most important thing is that reading the article.
Keeping in mind that I have some experience on YouTube and I think that somehow the algorithm should be similar, the best is to read the whole article and then click on the claps button.
This way the algorithm will understand that the appreciation of the article came only after the person has read the article and found it interesting, and is not just a person who tried to create a fake engagement.
Appearing the claps button before reading the…
