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Medium Meta-Blogging
Every Comment Tells a Story
Are your comments working for you, or just cluttering your Medium portfolio?
If the Medium staff could only change one thing, many of us would love for it to be this business of treating comments as Stories. Comments clutter our RSS feeds, our Stats, our list of Stories. We can’t earn a penny for our thoughts, if they’re expressed in comments. And they don’t always show our thinking and writing skills at their best, anyway. But perhaps it’s time to rethink that. Here are some reasons to treat each comment as if it were a part of your writing portfolio.
Audience Building
Comments are so important, here, for engagement and audience building.
Do you doubt that? I’ve been a member of Medium since 2015. Without writing a single story, I had over 700 followers. Just from comments, alone. I did not join Medium as a paying member until November 2019, and it was not until November 30 that I posted my first real Story.
Technically, though, this is my first Story on Medium:
