Saying Farewell to the “Polite Clap”

For better or for worse

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For the last month I’ve been away from Medium on self appointed “mental health” leave.

This leave wasn’t made necessary because of Medium, but it had to fall into the recycling basket regardless. Anyway, I’m back now bitches aaaaaaand…

I’m away for 5 minutes and everything turns on it’s head?? What’s going on?

I’ve arrived back just in time for the brand new payment system.. and oh my freaking goodness..

Once we were clap-scavengers, searching the wilderness for any claps we could find. Articles would tout wisdom on digging for the elusive claps, others would chastise those that didn’t clap enough.

Suddenly that’s out the window.

The new system measures time actually spent reading the articles, a system that I think actually makes a lot more sense..

Suddenly out of nowhere, stones appeared out of nowhere and began hurtling towards the author of this story..

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