Getting the Clap(s) … It’s More Important Than Ever Before
Waaaaat! A doctor is recommending that I get a disease?!
For those of you who don’t know, “the clap” is a slang term for gonorrhea.
This story isn’t about that.
As everyone knows, a necessary Medium writer’s rite of passage is one’s story ranting, complaining, analyzing, cogitating over, or somehow caterwauling about claps from readers/followers/fellow writers. Mostly, these sob stories center on the stinginess of clappers, especially the special breed of irritants known universally as the “one- two- or three-clappers.” The analysis of their bizarre behavior could fill a book, maybe even several books, none of which would receive much applause.
If you haven’t done your clap story yet, get on it! You can’t be a real Medium writer without one.
I’ve done several. They’ve all performed dismally, with super low clap counts. But they’re fun to do anyway.
This story isn’t about any of that either.
What it’s really about is getting paid and why claps may be making an important resurgence or perhaps, more correctly, a resurgence in importance.
Check this out! Straight from behind the wizard’s curtain at Medium central.
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