That’s a shame…it was the most annoying thing about Quora to me.
As a Medium writer, I’m annoyed now! They already stopped paying me my ~0-10$ per month because I refused to beg everyone to get to their new minimum 100 followers requirement for getting paid.
It is for authors like me writing on Medium, to have a way of getting paid. There is a need for both paid and free content. But reality is that you cannot produce quality content if everything has to be free. Advertisement is one solution, but one not without its own serious drawbacks.
Medium is a like a magazine with a very large number of journalists which it pays to write for it. Naturally it needs to charge subscribers to make an income.
No thanks, Medium. These dark patterns crop up everywhere lately...