Medium followers problem
Why are Medium users allowed to follow 10 or 20k thousand users or more? What sense does such a feature make?
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Anyway here is a sort of petition for disallowing this. One way I guess it could be done is simply by limiting the number of users you can follow by the number of followers that you have and which presumably you have honestly earned. But besides a petition for common sense as it seems to me this should also be for the well being of the platform itself, to prevent it from further turning into a kind of circus that it seems to be slowly turning into, reedings only for sport, a mere pastime of verbal noise instead of something more.
Or maybe it could be made so that following someone gives them free access to all your stories so that you can’t earn money from them either. Then one could expect to observe nothing short of drastic reductions in all lists of followers across the platform. I think it would be a beautiful fix.
