You Are Not Welcome to Spam Your Stories in the Comments Section of Mine
For the past six months, I’ve rarely been active on Medium.
Besides having another platform to write for, one of the reasons was the presence of spammers and people practicing “tag bombing” — check Aimée Gramblin’s story for more info about tag bombing.
How annoying is it when someone leaves a comment under your story just to add a link to theirs? The irritating practice is called “spomment”.
Obviously, it was happening in association with stories having several views, mostly external.
Medium lately cleaned up the platform from thousand of fake profiles created just intending to promote their stories and external content instead of creating engagement within the platform.
An example of what happened when Medium took care of the problem can be found in S M Mamunur Rahman’s story on how Illumination lost 63K followers overnight!
So, if Medium took care of the problem, why am I complaining?
