My suggestion to Tony was to have a Medium 2.0 for hybrids. That would be those of us that read and write on the platform. How-tos, money earned, etc could go there. However… however… they would not be monetized. Why?

Have you read some of them??? How to make a million dollars on your first 7 days on Medium type clickbait crapola with no screenshots, no canonical links, no references, nada.

Or all of the articles that used to show up in my feed by outraged typists (yes typists not writers-quality) about how Medium won't pay them. Uh hem, it's Stipe, not Medium. Again if typists would do their research first.

It's the culture in that part of the world that makes them think it's perfectly okay to show up at someone's house party and complain about the food and drinks being served. They don't mean anything by it. It's the culture.

But when you're dealing with a company based in the US you're talking US law, international law, and a whole lot of other things that make my head spin attempting to figure out the logistics of it all. Medium does what it can. For reasons unbeknownst to me, Stripe is it. Period.

But then I saw post after post of typists who found ways around the restrictions. Ah, so your not a quality writer and you're all for cheating the system? K.

Good to know.

That's why limits must be imposed and standards raised. Too many people with too many points of view and too many ways of doing things (even shady, immoral, illegal, or a combination thereof).

Like the old saying goes, it only takes a few bad apples to effe it up for everybody.