🙌🏼 "who or what determines what is authentic and what is manufactured?"

Hi Yana, not only is it not fair, it makes no sense.

Engagement (clap, highlight, comment and follow) is how Google tracks traffic and factors into page rank. Medium needs to rank on Google, so what is this nonsense?!

A genuine action/comment is now suspect?

Spend the dollars in backend to track ghost and fake engagement.

There is a big difference between a bot's generic BS response and a genuine comment left by a follower/new reader.

Enough already.