I hate spammers in my comments. It wastes my time and it also makes for a poorer experience on Medium. My articles don't get a huge amount of comments, so it bothers me when I see someone shill their project (I mostly write about crypto) and disguise it as a compliment.

Another thing that confounds me is the ability to give multiple claps to an article. What is the purpose of giving 50 claps to one article? Maybe Medium needs to add a clap of the day feature or a super clap if someone really likes your piece. To me, this just reduces the effectiveness of the clapping mechanism.

As a writer, I would much rather get 50 single claps from different readers than 50 claps from 1 reader. I have no way (to my knowledge) of knowing the difference as a writer. Sorry to go off on a tangent, but it seems related to spam comments.

Thank you for the article.