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Even though Medium reinstated my profile, I stopped publishing on the platform and moved to my blog again. There's some history re-writing going on here. The t

Even though Medium reinstated my profile, I stopped publishing on the platform and moved to my blog again. There's some history re-writing going on here. The tweet from Medium about unblocking his account was in July 2018 - the author replied with 'Happens. No worries. Thanks for resolving the issue guys', so they clearly weren't too bothered about this at the time. They then went on to post over ten further articles on Medium over the next six months - again, hardly the sign of someone annoyed by the platform. (for contrast, they had only written one earlier article in the year, so his output increased after the issue) ...and now in July 2020, two years on, they have decided that this was the thing that stopped them using Medium? How is this anything but a lie?

mastazi 6y ago
You can be annoyed at something and take action after some time, what’s so strange about it? I wanted to get off Gmail for a long time but it took me a while before I actually did it. Migrating off a platform is not something you do in the blink of an eye, there is always friction involved for obvious reasons
ACow_Adonis 6y ago
...or maybe...tweets aren't an accurate representation of an author's mindset? Especially ones in a customer-company relations context responding to a recent account blocking/unblocking? I know I'm always polite when communicating in that context (it does little good to respond in a hostile fashion even if you think the person on the other end is the lowest of the low). i mean, the blog post might not honest be either, maybe there is another motive, but i'd put the company-directed communications and tweets at about the bottom of the authenticity/trust hierarchy myself.
tarkin2 6y ago
“Cancel culture”... Some want others censored? This is as old as the hills. “Culture”? We need to claim exaggeration of a normal facet of human society? Those who use term portray themselves as white nights, from what I’ve seen, to try to claim a free pass. You disagree with a private company agreeing with your censorious critics? Then continue to argue your point elsewhere. That private company owes you nothing. Claiming to be a victim of society seems defeatist at best, and suspicious at worst; it makes me think the user is trying to procure sympathy to gain support for their contentious argument.
amelius 6y ago
Well, I can fully understand this if they were still making money on the platform. Like if your boss is an asshole, you might not want to shame them until you found a new job and secured your income.
rahulchowdhury 6y ago
Just to clear the air here. The posts that you are talking about were either for company blogs, or casual "I don't care if they live or die" kind of posts. At around the same time, I started working on a small blogging platform of my own but gave up and started using SSGs like Gatsby, Jekyll, etc. More on the move here: https://hulry.com/back-to-wordpress/ https://hulry.com/back-to-wordpress/ Hope this clears things up. :)
- joosters 6y ago
  Hey, thanks for the reply, and I should apologise to you: While it still seems to me that the cause, effect & justification for leaving medium seems strange, I didn't mean to accuse you of intentionally lying or deceiving people in your article, sorry for the terrible wording.
syshum 6y ago
>>so they clearly weren't too bothered about this at the time. I dont know if that is true, simply because they did not rant and rave like it common with cancel culture today does not mean they were not bothered It almost never results in a good outcome to tell your current service provider your intentions to leave before you are actually ready to pull the trigger to leave Stoicism is a virtue in these situations

mastazi 6y ago

You can be annoyed at something and take action after some time, what’s so strange about it? I wanted to get off Gmail for a long time but it took me a while before I actually did it. Migrating off a platform is not something you do in the blink of an eye, there is always friction involved for obvious reasons

ACow_Adonis 6y ago

...or maybe...tweets aren't an accurate representation of an author's mindset? Especially ones in a customer-company relations context responding to a recent account blocking/unblocking? I know I'm always polite when communicating in that context (it does little good to respond in a hostile fashion even if you think the person on the other end is the lowest of the low). i mean, the blog post might not honest be either, maybe there is another motive, but i'd put the company-directed communications and tweets at about the bottom of the authenticity/trust hierarchy myself.

tarkin2 6y ago

“Cancel culture”... Some want others censored? This is as old as the hills. “Culture”? We need to claim exaggeration of a normal facet of human society? Those who use term portray themselves as white nights, from what I’ve seen, to try to claim a free pass. You disagree with a private company agreeing with your censorious critics? Then continue to argue your point elsewhere. That private company owes you nothing. Claiming to be a victim of society seems defeatist at best, and suspicious at worst; it makes me think the user is trying to procure sympathy to gain support for their contentious argument.

amelius 6y ago

Well, I can fully understand this if they were still making money on the platform. Like if your boss is an asshole, you might not want to shame them until you found a new job and secured your income.

rahulchowdhury 6y ago

Just to clear the air here. The posts that you are talking about were either for company blogs, or casual "I don't care if they live or die" kind of posts. At around the same time, I started working on a small blogging platform of my own but gave up and started using SSGs like Gatsby, Jekyll, etc. More on the move here: https://hulry.com/back-to-wordpress/ https://hulry.com/back-to-wordpress/ Hope this clears things up. :)

joosters 6y ago
Hey, thanks for the reply, and I should apologise to you: While it still seems to me that the cause, effect & justification for leaving medium seems strange, I didn't mean to accuse you of intentionally lying or deceiving people in your article, sorry for the terrible wording.

syshum 6y ago

>>so they clearly weren't too bothered about this at the time. I dont know if that is true, simply because they did not rant and rave like it common with cancel culture today does not mean they were not bothered It almost never results in a good outcome to tell your current service provider your intentions to leave before you are actually ready to pull the trigger to leave Stoicism is a virtue in these situations