Do You Honor Vital Etiquette Rules for Medium Followers?
Congrats, you have a new follower! Now what?
We all want to have the best experience on Medium, and followers are a big part of it.
Today I propose some vital Etiquette Rules for Medium Followers. They address key questions regarding followers, both those you follow and the ones who follow you:
1. Whom do you choose to follow?
∘ The manual method
∘ The semi-automatic methods
2. What are your obligations after you follow an author?
3. What should you do when someone follows you?
4. What do you owe your followers?
5. What do you owe your super-followers AKA true fans?
DISCLAIMER: I’ve written other articles about writing on Medium. They are different from this one, but I build upon my earlier work with new learnings.
If you read to the end, I share my thoughts on what we learn from our true fans which makes them so valuable.
1. Whom do you choose to follow?
The short answer is you should follow anyone you want to actually read. But it’s not always so easy to get right, is it?
