Is Medium Creating Bad Writers?
By promoting writers who publish several times a week, the online blogging sphere encourages anyone to publish anything — even if that means bad writing.
Medium and most other social media platforms favor those who post daily causing each of us to rush to the finish line at all costs.
Medium is not unique in the fact that it wants more users and it wants users to spend as much time as possible on the website creating traffic. In order to effectively do this, you must be posting consistently (preferably daily), highlighting, commenting, and following. The problem is it forces everyone to post as much as they can, as quickly as they can, and it usually does not represent their best work. Not unless there is some sort of financial prize involved. The Medium Writer’s Challenge of 2021 produced some of the best writing I had seen on the blogger’s platform in a long time. Why? Because everyone was trying. It became about producing the best-written, most heartfelt piece, not the most pieces in the shortest amount of time.
Everyone is supporting (and silently competing) with one another to be the most popular writer, instead of the strongest writer.
