If You Write Behind The Paywall But Don’t Pay For A Membership, I’m Not Reading Your Articles

Jess
3 min readJan 6, 2022

There’s a long list of why’s

genius.com

This might piss some people off, but I’m bracing myself. Here goes nothing.

Note… I’m talking about people who are actively writing behind the paywall. Not non-members ingeneral.*

I think it’s a dick move to get paid but not contribute

Photo by Jose Carbajal on Unsplash

How rude is it to write as much shit as possible, and then get paid only because people who pay for a membership are reading your articles?

I see it as incredibly disrespectful.

If you’re writing a solid amount of content per week, I know for damn sure you’re making at least five fucking dollars a month.

How is it respectful to your writing peers to take their money and then expect them to shell out theirs, when you’re contributing nothing to the Medium community?

You might have good content. Good for you.

But this is a community.

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Jess
Jess

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