Engagement IS a natural form of boost. So what if Medium doesn’t like what people are reading? Why should they then decide to effectively censor those who don’t conform to their model?

If I want to be promoted on Twitter I have the choice to take out an ad. I don’t have that control here, Medium does.

Medium has always had human curators anyway. It’s just that they have never had such an agenda before and the last model didn’t require publications and writers desperately sucking up to get attention. It’s pathetic.

And of course I’m some kind of Medium terrorist for speaking out against it even though I’m actually a paying customer making a complaint.

Sure, it’s all ice cream and pantihose if your work already fits into Medium’s agenda so why wouldn’t you tell the world how wonderful it is?

I’ve been steadily growing my audience on here for two years as well as a meagre income. Both have now been reduced to practically zero because I don’t want to alter my writing to fit the agenda or suck up to publications.

The boost system is not an alternative to ads at all because in the end it puts control in the hands of the corporation rather than the writers and the readers.

But of course, while we all keep putting the handcuffs on ourselves while whistling there is no chance.

Medium writers need to wake up and realise that this boost system of a form of censorship instead of celebrating our own demise.