That is not what I was saying. I was responding to your statement "Blogging has democratized and monetized writing and publishing. As surely as YouTube has allowed us to have our own TV show, Medium is allowing us to be published authors and journalists. The onslaught of content has effectively commodified writing in ways that can be used by savvy players to game the system. "

By 'democratizing' it as you put it, it brought out the 95% of people who can't write.

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According to some research in California about 8 years ago, 95% of college students couldn't write a grammatical sentence.

I saw that for myself. When I did writing classes in my mid-50s (I had already been published for 45 years at that point,) out of the 35 students, 34 were semi-literate. One could write decent English, and he was an old man.

There have been a mass of content sites since about 1999. I know that because I've been writing content on the web for that long. Writing.com was one of the first. Associated.com used to pay until it was bought out by Yahoo. Hubpages paid very well 10 years ago, and I still earn every month from them from copy I wrote a long time ago.

So, sorry, Medium is not allowing 'us to be authors and journalists.' Medium is doing what ever other content site has done for 21 years - playing on the desires of most people to write and making money out of them.

They don't care if they can write or not. That's why anyone can publish on it. Not because they're any good, but because the more content there is on the site, the more successful the site becomes, and the more money the site makes.