Medium
Treat Your Comments on Medium with Respect
Your responses may be as important to you as your articles
I was excited to discover Medium. As I remember, it is exactly what the early vision of the internet was supposed to be, where a person could post insightful articles, comments and dialog. The internet has degenerated somewhat since then.
Importance
I learned early that my comments may be as important as my articles. They become part of your entire portfolio! People can find everything that you post, even comments, with a Google search. They may be buried in line 2,000 but they are there.
Comments attract followers. Only a few articles appear on the main page or a topic page. A curator may have 50 articles and only two slots. However, your articles will most likely appear on your follower’s pages.
That’s one reason to attract followers. If nobody reads your work, why write? Everybody has something to say. I choose to follow people when they have written an interesting article or an interesting comment on someone else’s article. I read comments on most articles.
Treat Every Comment as a Short Article
You will be judged by the readers as if you posted a full article. So, always put a reasonable amount of effort and…
