> They have eliminated the actual ads, but left in place all of the incentive structures favoring the production of low-value clickbait articles.
This is my biggest beef with Medium - which isn't really a problem with Medium itself, but how certain "authors" are (ab)using it.
It's quite often that I'll be googling for something, and end up at a Medium article - but it's 50/50 whether it's a good article, or a single paragraph of basic information that's been largely copy/pasted from somewhere else.
There are lots of good articles on Medium, but the large quantity of articles that are basically SEO spam have me clicking through from Google less and less these days.
This is my biggest beef with Medium - which isn't really a problem with Medium itself, but how certain "authors" are (ab)using it.
It's quite often that I'll be googling for something, and end up at a Medium article - but it's 50/50 whether it's a good article, or a single paragraph of basic information that's been largely copy/pasted from somewhere else.
There are lots of good articles on Medium, but the large quantity of articles that are basically SEO spam have me clicking through from Google less and less these days.