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This ad ("3 minute read"?) perfectly encapsulates why I can't take Medium seriously in the long term.<p>If you're going to claim your content (including that in front of the firewall, too) is "curated", you had better apply some basic critique (and, sadly, basic <i>proofreading</i>) to your writers before throwing it up on your wall.<p>In the past week, I saw two or three <i>excellent</i> longform articles on Medium , and outside the paywall, too. Meanwhile, I perused and abandoned maybe three dozen pieces that were basically ads/selfpromotes or unreadable gibberish. And this was a relatively good week.<p>When I see the Medium branding (under whatever domain/masthead), I am <i>less</i> likely to click on it, not more. Am I alone?<p><i>Curation</i> means standards. It means editing. It means somebody says "no" to accepting and publishing inferior writing. That doesn't seem to happen with Medium.