Writers Prompted to Write More via Medium Policy Requirement

Medium prompts regular activity from its writing members by establishing a quasi negative-reward policy designed to remind users of their best interests. The goal: getting users to stay active on the Medium platform, thereby increasing odds of activity.

According to Medium authors:

"Activity can include recommending, highlighting, or publishing. Accounts may be removed after 6 months of inactivity."

Any user of the Medium platform must remain active or risk losing their account. So if you're a Medium reader of the quality content to be found there, make it a point to check in regularly.

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If you're trying to imagine an easy-to-remember memory check, then do it quarterly. Add it to your quarterly calendar.

We know how it is . . . it can be incredibly difficult to eke out time for every entertainment in which we partake. However, it's important to remember that Medium is one site that offers a multitude of benefits. The cutting-edge writing platform is much more than a water cooler hangout. Within it's folds are rich salons where everyone's welcome to introduce and discuss mostly-important topics.

If you liken our Medium fix to a favorite magazine, then put it on our monthly, weekly, or daily calendar. See new material every day! It's as easy as setting, then clicking a Medium bookmark. Save it in your browsers now if you haven't already.

Again, whether writing or not, users who don't remain active could lose their accounts after six months of inactivity at the Medium website. To prevent this, all a user needs to do is log in, read a story, pick a favorite highlight and comment.

Directly related to the activity requirement is an interesting feature:

Per Medium,

"We don’t accept requests for inactive accounts, unless you own a registered trademark for it."

Writers, marketers, and other Medium users may want to consider applying a trademark to their usernames. It's too easy to get involved in a demanding project and unable to return to a personal one for some time, so this policy could be a significant risk.

We hope this will be a useful reminder to Medium users who are either unaware or have forgotten about this important requirement of their Medium account.


REF:

Medium authors. Medium Policy. Retrieved September 2018. https://medium.com/policy/medium-username-policy-7054a77fb04f

Jane Haskins, Esq. How to Trademark a Name. Legal Zoom. Retrieved September 2018. https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/how-to-trademark-a-name

New Tech Thriller Designed to Play on Daily Web Trepidations, Fear

A new technological thriller, in theaters this weekend of September 7-9, promises to shake our prevailing perceptions of mystery, technology and fright.

When his daughter, Margot, goes missing, David Kim (John Cho) embarks on an investigation of her online activity, where he finds a frighteningly different landscape than he expects.

Find "Searching" in Theaters

Along as voyeurs, audiences can expect an amplified version of the discomfort we experience when we find unexpected manifestations of the unknown and perceive some distinctive yet unidentifiable threat. This can happen to us anywhere, but in "Searching" we're taken deeper into the void of fear we experience when the unknown pops at us from our computer screens.

Also, for David, the waking nightmare involves one of the greatest tragedies: losing a child . . . more, losing them to the unknown. In realization of his new, personalized reality, Margot's father cannot avoid the dive into a new, unfamiliar dimension to find her.

Specifically, Searching was scripted and designed to play on that version of ourselves that deals with technology on a fairly consistent basis, and turns this world upside down. The toppled dynamic of this dark-web whodunit began as early as drafting the script, where the writers presented a "scriptment" to better illustrate the production requirements of theme and event translation to the final product, the movie . . . as reported by Mekado Murphy via the New York Times.

Considering that most everyone can appreciate the need for a bigger screen when working and playing online, we suggest that audiences enjoy the intellectual dark-web thriller in theaters before it's gone.

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Read more about Searching at IMDB.