Medium Makes Up
My short-lived saga of deportation and exile is over. After getting the Media boot I am back in from the cold and once again warmed at the fires of the Partner Program. All told I was down for six days, and back up and running by the seventh day. Not too shabby although I would question the point of it.
Now that my barring from membership in the Partner Program has been unlocked I can be active again. Honestly, any victory I might feel has nothing to do with any benefits that the program carries and everything to do with just being in the club.
I had stopped posting articles, in spite of a backlog I had hoped to upload. I didn’t post them not because they wouldn’t make any real money — because that is my experience, they don’t — but because they couldn’t make any money. As I’ve said elsewhere, it’s more about endorphins than simoleons.
This brief ejection only underscored the true lack of real compensation. In a previous essay, I pointed out that the algorithms at Medium operate in a quasi-crepuscular state of vague revelation…