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Why is Medium penalised?

• minimaxir 12y ago
  Back in its heyday (Summer 2012), Medium submissions had a very low signal-to-noise ratio, with everyone jumping on the pseudointellectual bandwagon, with a high dose of pseudo. Nowadays, the number of medium.com submissions is lower, but the ratio of quality remains the same.
  • ZenPro 12y ago
    Thanks for that. That seems a shame because my only exposure to Medium is the quality posts that actually are shared to me or make it to the first/second page of HN. I had assumed the quality of most writing on the platform was quite high.
    • minimaxir 12y ago
      And that's where the confirmation bias and halo effect come in. :P Many startups use Medium to do the same low-quality content marketing that they could do with a normal Wordpress blog, but most Wordpress blog don't have giant header images and a serif typeface.