Here on Medium, if readers like your article, they can ‘clap’ for it, which is the equivalent of a ‘like’ on other social media platforms.
I found out today that readers can select to offer 1 clap for that article…or as many as 50. Yes, 50 ‘likes’ from the same reader.
That’s not helping anyone. It inflates the apparent attention an article has received when other readers view it (the writer can see the real numbers in their story stats)…
