Claps only result in payout if they are from paying members.

Aug 23, 2017·1 min read

Claps only result in payout if they are from paying members. So if a writer’s friends/network want to support them, that’s totally fine.

Ev Williams

CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas

…caution (as I’m guessing you’ve all considered) against the potential gaming of the system, though. How will Medium account for a writer’s friends/network artificially inflating the clap response?

I love that this conversation is happening, and that it is happening out in public.

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