Has Medium’s Boosting Criteria Changed?
Asking For a Friend
This is going to sound like whining, which it may well be. I wrote a story on May 18th, which got boosted. I had six stories boosted in May, which was an off month. I was on pace towards reaching my 3-month average of almost nine stories a month, which was approximately one every third or fourth story.
I have no expectation that all or even most of my stories get boosted. I write a lot about whatever is on my mind. Sometimes, they are well-researched, documented stories on important topics, and other times, a story might be like this one, something I write about to get it off my chest and then never give another thought to. I rarely get my political pieces published, for example. I don’t expect Medium to tacitly endorse my views, which are admittedly biased. I don’t expect book reviews to get boosted, nor stories about my enjoyment of card games or my daughter-in-law’s cookies. I have higher hopes for the stories I write about history. Sometimes I see myself as filling in the gaps found in Florida textbooks, for example.
I was satisfied with my success rate of getting, on average, one of every three or four stories boosted. I’d like to think my writing is improving over time and that my boosting ratio might increase over time. Little did I know when I wrote that story on May 18th that it might…
