I Won’t Read Articles on Medium by Anonymous Writers
Have an uniformed or biased take? Show your face, or keep it to yourself
One of the worst parts of Twitter is the way people tweet absolute garbage at fellow human beings anonymously. I’ve nearly left several times because of it. But I have found many wonderful Tweeters who crack me up, inform me, and connect me to other hilarious people, and scholars.
So I stay. I try to learn, laugh, and avoid the insanity.
But now I’m seeing similar “writers” on Medium. I am running across poorly written, obvious propaganda pieces more frequently. I’m not talking about the error strewn pieces that have been here the whole time I have been using the site. Many of these articles have bait-y titles and get eyes. Good for those posters. It is not for me. They can write about inspiration and motivation, and how to make money on Medium, and not claim expertise, just their experience. They show what might be their name and face. I skip their stuff, and move on.
I’m looking at the pieces on mental and physical health, fitness, politics, economics, and more, written by supposedly credentialed people. Today I saw an excoriation of a person who may or may not be dealing with mental health challenges. But to read the article, you’d think this supposed…
