Herllo Corrine. Very good questions. Possibly Medium hasn’t really figured this out itself.

I love to get responses. I love to give responses. I do not ALWAYS give responses, and that is because I had nothing useful to say. Figured that my applause would let that writer know that their work had been read and appreciated.

I believe that often times, the response to a story makes it more colourful, fleshes it out and makes us think.

I do not write for money. In fact, I probably really piss of the Medium curators by consistently clicking off the “curate” button (which they sneakily put in as a default setting so that if you are not paying attention, you publish and ARE allowing curation.

I have two reasons: 1) I love to write, to tell stories to report, to record. 2)I want my stories to remain free to anyone who would like to read them and who, for whatever reason, has NOT become a paid member.

Now, I DO understand that by NOT allowing them to curate, I may be losing visibility. I get that. But frankly, my dears, I don’t give a damn (to quote from Gone with the Wind “Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”