A couple of years ago, a top writer blasted me on a TDG comment I made on another writer's article.

He said he was going to report me. I told him to go ahead. Two things will happen: 1) I will get kicked out of Medium, which means my spare time goes elsewhere (practicality says I should quit) or 2) a real Medium person looks at my work and deemed it worthy of some advantage in the Medium algorithms-------------which means the top writer will have to share some of his earnings with me.

From my end, it seemed nothing happened.

BTW, when I do have a polite request to stop commenting, I stop. Maybe happened five times in five years.