Medium will now pay writers based on how many claps they get

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16180150/medium-paywall-articles-claps-author-payments

by thedarkginger • 9 years ago

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samayylmao2• 9 years ago

Well, the first paragraph already has erroneous information. You cannot give infinite claps. There is a 50 clap per article limit.

thedarkginger• 9 years ago

Not a registered Medium user. I assume you mean a reader gets 50 claps to give out, right (not "can clap" something 50x)?

samayylmao2• 9 years ago

each reader (user) has the ability to clap each article 50 times. Which seams like a lot.

At first this system might seem a tad odd, but they did say that the funds for each subscription are handed out to writers based on the distrubution of that individual users claps. so if that individual user is clapping consistently, then it isn't an issue. The only problem I could forsee is good articles getting drowned out because most that read it only clapped once, whereas other articles fewer readers could clap 50x and thus resulting in more claps.

Now that I think of it they don't really say how claps affect visibility.

Medium will now pay writers based on how many claps they get

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