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Together We Thrive: Innovative Ideas for Connection
Come together when we could fall apart, and more about Boost
You may be wrinkling your nose at recent events.
First, let’s talk about Boost-worthy stories. You are mostly receptive to our requests. Thank you for that.
If I may make a couple of requests, it’s in these items:
- Please trust your editors and be willing to entertain their suggestions.
Once we tell you that we are nominating your story for boost, please do not continue to improve it; you may unintentionally preclude your story from boost, and thus our nomination of it.
2. Also, please don’t dismiss our notes. They represent the work we’ve done together, and to dismiss our notes removes how we’ve interacted while the piece has been in the queue.
Some of you are wrinkling your nose that your piece did not get boosted, even after we’ve nominated it.
The truth is this: We’re wrinkling our noses at some of Medium’s decisions, too.
One of my recent pieces, where all of the elements were present, did not boost. It was truly original, had reader takeaways, and all of the components.
I feel your pain. We’re exploring, but are unsure we will receive a “why.”
Nominating a piece does not guarantee that it will be Boosted. Medium has to agree, too.
See stories that have been Boosted in our Boost Gallery. You might even analyze them for boost-worthy qualities.
Back to current events.
In the US, you’d have to live under a rock not to know that Trump was nearly assassinated.
You cannot live without seeing the political discourse fallout across social media. Have you been a part of divisive discussions regarding the political divide?
I’d venture a guess that there’s more division than coming together.
I saw a “friend” on social media say that they were unfriending all kinds of people who were handling the attempted shooting poorly. I’ve cleaned up the actual verbiage, which included a string of expletives.
