MEDIUM CURATION

I Appear to Have Escaped Curation Jail

A story of hope for 2020

Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash

Like so many other Medium writers I have grown more and more discouraged over the last couple of months with the apparent confirmation of the existence of “curation jail”, and my apparent life sentence.

I had my suspicions in October when after my first four articles were not selected for curation, the ‘high volume’ message started to appear in my stats. I raised the question in various comments on the posts of others. There was no consensus.

Then in November Shaunta Grimes shared her wisdom.

What to do If You’re in Curation Jail on Medium

I’m also a fan of Ryan Justin’s work. He wrote about coming to terms with curation jail here.

I Too Have Landed Myself in Curation Prison

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