Mike, I appreciate your kind words. More importantly, thank you for drawing more needed attention to this unfortunate issue. This problem is especially troublesome considering how much time and effort you and others spend giving back to Medium in general and ILLUMINATION in particular.
Thus, this disturbing situation has caused me to reevaluate whether I want to continue tripling my monthly payments by upgrading from the partner program to the friend of medium program. If this problem continues to get worse instead of better, then and more writers may seek other writing platforms to devote their time. I will heed the advice and direction of you, Dr. Yildiz and Aiden regarding how to proceed going forward. I admire the immense patience and understanding the three of you have displayed after being negatively affected by these alarming incidents. However, no one’s patience is infinite and I don’t expect the leadership team here to continue tolerating such an intolerable predicament. Therefore, like you and others, I really hope Medium promptly takes strong corrective action to mitigate these serious breaches which cause users to lose faith and trust in the editorial operations of Medium.