Very well stated, Mel. I sadly admit to being curious enough to read a couple of those articles when I first joined Medium, but never again. One was a highly popular writer
of financial advice, not just here, but LinkedIn and elsewhere, with literally tens of thousands of followers.
Well, I started to read a few of his articles and found they all had virtually the same advice but just worded slightly differently. I also found typos and errors in his work, and that he doesn’t respond to comments … much too big to stoop to that.

Another, shown as a top writer here in about three different categories, all how I made this much or that…along with screenshots of say $2,000 per month on Medium, but his articles are all one or two minute reads and tell you nothing other than virtually how much he made. English is evidently not his first language and some sentence were even difficult to understand, or made you ever want to.

They seem to follow the belief … use anything about making money or getting rich in the title of your article, and they will come. Despite all the words they use in different ways to get suckers in, the only lesson you learn is “if you want to get rich like me, write articles telling people how you got rich” (even if you didn’t.)

As soon as I see an article like that now I just keep scrolling. Thanks for sharing.
Your opinion.