They left abt 5 PNs to each other about how awful the submission was and how one washed her hands of it and wasn't publishing it, and on and on and on and on.

You'd think they were looking for the next handwritten post from this century's Shakespeare. It was a How To in the Twitter/Medium series I've been writing.

I'm here to here with publications on this platform. I left one because a piece that was published was 80% plagiarized and used copyrighted images. They think/thought as long as they cited their sources... uh no. The "writer" submitted work that wasn't theirs to earn from and the "publisher/editor" posted it.

I've left other pubs for the same blatant disregard for the law let alone writing integrity and yet these pubs are still online, the stories are still posted, and they continue to post garbage.

So what's the point of it all? What's the point of the Help Desk, and the Report button, and Medium Rules, Medium Policies, the actual US laws on what is and isn't permissable if anyone and everyone can just collectively say fuck it and do what they want to do?

I'm just going to start self-pubbing everything and be glad I can earn the $5 it costs me to be on this damn site. Time to step up my game and move all of my stuff over to BuyMeACoffee.