Curation Is The Kiss of Death on Medium These Days
How times have changed
Once upon a time, curation really mattered for writers operating in this space.
The notion of having your story being chosen for distribution was the seal of approval that so many craved more than anything else. It meant that your post was being special preference above thousands of other articles jostling for attention.
The term “curation jail” was invented to describe the phenomenon that took place when article after article was ignored by the powers that be.
Back then, being in curation jail was the source of deep existential angst for those wanting to succeed so desperately.
As you can imagine, hundreds of articles were devoted to the deleterious effect of not having one’s post not being distributed and what it meant for a writer’s earnings.
And then something changed.
Scratch that.
A lot of things changed.
Publications, which were to all intents and purposes the gatekeepers of what was acceptable and wasn’t, and had wielded considerable power and influence, found themselves cast into the rubbish heap; chucked out into the cold and left without a pot to piss in.