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What Is Medium’s Policy On Curating Articles For Distribution
“We are processing this story. Hang tight!”
This messaging showed up on an article I published on Medium on February 11, 2020, titled Biden Toppled As Front Runner and Blacks Haven’t Voted Yet. I checked this morning, nine days later, for a status update. The messaging still says, “We are processing this story. Hang tight!”
On February 12, the day after I published this piece following the New Hampshire Primary — gees doesn’t it seem like that primary was a year ago — I published another story on Medium titled, Black People, Vote too. I Immediately received the message, “We are processing this story. Hang tight!” I checked this morning, eight days later, for a status update. You guessed it, the same message. Medium wants me to hang tight because they are still processing this story.
What gives?
I have to go back to October 28, 2019, to find a story distributed to curators. A piece I published, Baseball Fans Boo President Trump at World Series, found distribution in both Sports and Politics.
I have published 15 articles on Medium in between this piece on President Trump’s visit to the World Series in October and the two pieces I wrote on the Democratic Party’s primary process. Each of them received a resounding and immediate rejection.
