IN RESPONSE TO:

https://medium.com/@quinnskylar23/dear-medium-you-owe-us-an-apology-30066a978321

Skylar, I can't agree more with everything you say here, but would like to add one additional request to Medium:

"Please Please Please, detail for me, what exactly = a fraudulent amount of activity?"

I ask for this to be answered, as I asked nicely in my email sent to support on March 8th. Here is why. When I was brought back from being canceled, I wasn't given an apology, only a hint that I still did something wrong:

Your account was flagged by our systems as doing a fraudulent amount of activity.

If your account is flagged again, we will likely remove you from the Partner Program permanently.

Here is the rest of that email:

My plan for 2024 was to write more, read more, and support others by commenting more about good stories, possible edits, etc. All the while supporting Medium, and promoting Medium. But your email says your system felt I was doing a fraudulent amount of activity? Maybe it was because of Hundos? 100-word stories. And or Hundo Expansions, where a group of writers add to other Hundos, creating a longer story? The one we had going was close to 30 parts long, so all the writers involved would be reading through all of them, to get caught up, or know where to take the story next. If this concept is bad, let me know, please.

I've read over the Medium rules noted below so many times, more times than I can count. I need help finding the specific item/rule I broke.

I absolutely love writing on Medium, the interaction with others, the support, the real-time comments, and more. I love it better than any other I've tried. I'm so afraid to be removed permanently and want to change whatever it was I did. Can someone please let me know what specific activity I did too much of? And maybe the limits?

Thanks, Zatanna

PS — I completely and totally understand the need for security. I work on computers all day long, and our company adds more security weekly, if not more often. But I still need to ask/appeal to Medium to give writers a warning before just shutting them down. Earlier in this chain, I wrote a very long and likely boring response to how much Medium means to writers beyond the money. I wrote that from my heart to express how much Medium means to me. The mental and emotional hit people took from this truly can't be stressed enough. The chats and conversations, crying, people breaking down over this, talking about giving up on writing, and more. These went on 24/7. I would gladly email anyone higher up in Medium to discuss this. I don't think Medium fully understands what an unbelievably perfect way for people to work together and improve their skills and how deeply people grow attached to it.

Of course, if someone has been proven to be scamming, using bots, like those people did months back, they need to be banned.

I hope these comments don't get me deeper in trouble, but I know how much this means to everyone affected, both writers and readers, so I had to speak up.