Thank you for thinking, posting your thoughts on this subject. Even inside baseball is fun when you post that stuff.

Probably everyone is asking why too.

?An item guaranteed to stir the Medium writer’s pot but more useful feedback than circulating a ‘how are we doing’ b.s. memo.

?A handy tool helping to identify fake ad spammer accounts, which Medium is playing whack-a-mole with this year.

?Medium must know there are lots of ways around this ‘100’ item for 2022. Possibly thrown in as a data tool helping fashion the next obligatory annual reorg designs. Padlocks are for keeping the honest, honest.

I mean, why do online biz’s do anything?

Mostly for data. Boomer days, “Time is Money”. Next-gen days, “Information is Power”.