If You Do These Things On Medium, I Am Blocking You On Sight

A ton of accounts I blocked recently

Photo by Maxim Hopman on Unsplash. GET OFF MY LAWN.

Note: Most people I blocked engaged with my posts.

1. Tagging me and five other million accounts in a post every month to “invite” all of them “to join a writing challenge!!!”.
2. Using a clapping bot that automatically sends claps to any new posts published. Yes, I block them even if they make the clapping number seem bigger. (I think there’s either a bot or a new promotion tactic that makes accounts clap on any comments. This is also not good.)
3. Using an AI generated image for your icon, then using AI generated images of the same person as the thumbnail of your every post.
4. Using AI generated text in your posts that is so obvious, even my goldfish can spot it. Seriously… the section titles in the text are: “Introduction”, five of the most boring section titles ever (sometimes numbered, with a colon), then “Conclusion”. No good writers write like this, and if you’re titling sections like this without AI, you should stop doing that right now, and use literally any other words as the section titles for your beginning and ending paragraphs. Check out the end of this blog post of mine as an example. By the way, the only formatting these accounts does is bolding the section titles. Some even…