Medium Policies and Rules

It’s time to clear some things up

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This is the portion of the rules and policies that I want you to focus on. This is not the entire policy. That link can be found here.

Paid, automatic, bulk, or non-genuine interactions
Medium depends on various user behaviors — like follows and claps — to determine what content to feature and make the site work well for everyone. We don’t allow artificial behaviors that skew this system and as a result, degrade or distort other users’ experiences.

This includes:

Buying, selling, or trading in accounts or account interactions — including views, reads, follows, claps, highlights, responses or other traffic

Using services, apps, or arrangements that offer you more views, reads, follows, claps, or other interactions on your Medium account or content

Registering accounts, posting content, or interacting with users or content automatically, systematically, or programmatically — Medium

“Non-genuine interactions”

That’s for all of you follow-for-follow people out there. Hard-up to meet a quota and have zero confidence in yourself to do it the legitimate way you decide to sidestep the policy and write all of these begging articles of how you’ll follow anyone…