60% of the crap Medium puts on my home page violates their own curation criteria.
And how come plagiarism of photos is no-no, but plagiarism of text is … fine?
In an ironic exhibition lacking self-awareness, Medium just posted guidance for writers seeking to be curated in their new click-bait listicle 5 of The Most Common Easy-to-fix Problems We See In Curation.
The five problems can be summarized as:
- Click-bait headlines
- Clap begging
- Photo copyright violations.
- Advertising, reader data collection, and affiliate links.
- Seeking crowd-source funding.
And yet, most of the articles Medium shoves into my feed exhibit one or more of these problems.
Is any headline question without an answer just click-bait?
The 8th way to make your life harder is to spend your time wondering whether your existence is “strenuous”.
The question mark is only implied in that headline. (Or, you could just tell us what happened?)
Maybe if the article had 4 simple techniques I would read it, but only 3? Probably not worth my time. I guess I’ll wait until later to get started on my important goals.
And the crown jewel of my Medium curated feed might be this delicious piece of native advertising from one of the largest industrial food corporations in the world.
Does Nestle have the right to use this photograph? Click here to find out!
(No, wait. Nestle does not include photo credits in their articles, so you’ll never know!)
C’mon Harris Sockel.
Medium could be soooo much better if it just followed its own policies.
(We’ll talk about the dysfunctional Medium search engine another day).
