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Three More Articles that Should Have Done Better
Understanding the Medium Algorithms & Medium Readers
If I were Pavlov’s dog running the Medium maze trying to figure out what to do to get food, I would probably starve. Too often, the stimulus-and-reward correlation is not working here.
Because I am often writing about an alternative democracy that nobody wants, I have been relegated to bottom writer status. Medium has told me that I really should quit my crazy idea of an advanced democracy.
But I do get a little traction for my work here. Some articles do better than others. And it’s interesting to try to figure out why.
But “doing better” is relative. Please understand that I am comparing Dave to Dave. Many of you are doing better than I. So here is how I get my Medium score:
Below Average: Less than $1
Average: $1 to $3
Above Average: More than $3
I would say each category gets about 1/3 of my articles. When I analyze the “below average” category, I either expected some of these articles to be below average before I hit “publish” or I can now see that the title was ineffective.
This analysis looks at the below-average articles that should have done better. Here are the…
