The fever is worse but I'm going to give this a shot.

"What I mean by this is that if you de-monetize or ban articles that are deemed "less respectable" "

When I refer to such posts I'm referring to the Medium how-tos and the like plus the illegal and clickbait 💩

Writers on the platform think they're the only readers. It isn't the case. There are people the come to the pltform just to read. I have several from my friends circle that signed up just to see what I have to say. They couldn't care less what the lastest glitch is on the platform.

No one monitors this platform which is one of my biggest petpeeves. People can post anything they want and no one fact checks it. Then the average readers sees a post on monkeypox for example and because it's supposedly written by an MD (no creditials, no backlinks, no canonical links, nada) then whatever they say the casual reader may take to heart. That's reckless, unscrupulous, unprofessional, dangerous, and violates Medium policy to boot.

But when reported... as far as I know it's still up and it's been a couple of weeks now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯