Medium Lists: Yay or Nay?

I may use them myself but sometimes they seem suspicious as heck

Photo by Serge Taeymans on Unsplash

How do you feel when someone adds your story to a list?

Me, perhaps like other vainglorious writers, can’t help but have an initial curiosity — Oh, you are interested in little old moi? How sweet! Let me have a look at your list!

I mean, you could have actually read or clapped for my article, that would have been neat. But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. (I myself have a reading list that I dip in and out of, and I confess there are things on there I probably will never read. Unfortunately you can’t edit your reading list I don’t think other than physically unticking each article which just….gah who has time for that?!)

Well look at there, you have a whole lot of lists on your profile, and no articles written. I don’t know why I presume other writers make lists. We all know we are outnumbered by “onlyreaders” here, even if we only get to meet them once in a blue moon.

Hm. I don’t know what my piece has in common with any of that stuff or that title, weird.

Look I want to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I have been burned before. Had my work copied, scrambled by bots and republished. Trust no one is kind of my m.o. with Medium members with lots of lists…