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My Dilemma on Medium
Considering the fact that in the last few days I have noticed a huge drop in income, I decided it’s time to take a break and understand what’s happening with Medium.
I think each of us has noticed that in less than a month I have dropped my EPR from 0.12$/read to 0.002$/read which clearly gave me a big question mark.
In trying to understand what was going on I found an article written by the folks at Medium which explained the reasons why a very large number of accounts were suspended.
One of the biggest problems was created by people creating multiple accounts and interacting on their own, which caused their articles to be promoted.
In addition, many accounts were found to be using artificial intelligence to write articles, which is completely banned on Medium.
Thus it seems that everything that happened on Medium was in our favour, because accounts that were creating spam and trying to earn money completely fraudulently were removed.
This makes me happy, but in my mind a dilemma has also arisen that maybe we will find an answer to together. If the accounts that were fraudulently generating money have been eliminated, shouldn’t the incomes of those who do their job with passion and dedication increase?