Is Medium Banning New Writers?

Everything you need to know to keep your Medium Partner account safe

“I got my Medium Partner Program earnings in my bank account, but I also seem to have lost 11 followers.”

This is the message that I got from one of the writers in my 100 day challenge writing community and I have also gotten so many comments on my YouTube about people whose medium accounts have been banned.

So what is going on? Is Medium banning new writers? Is Medium stopping the new writers from earning money through the Partner Program?

What’s all this about and what is going on? If your account has been banned how can you deal with it?

Hello everyone! My name is Anangsha Alammyan, and if you have been following my work for a while, you know that I’ve been writing on Medium for almost 5 years now.

I have 186,000 followers on the platform and I’m the editor of Books Are Our Superpower publication.

In today’s article, I want to talk about what’s been happening recently on Medium and why thousands of new accounts have been banned and if your account has been affected what you can do to deal with the same.

So without further ado, let’s dive right in!

Making Medium spam-free

Recently, Scott Lamb, the VP of content on Medium, published an article saying thousands of accounts on Medium have been banned. 

The reason? Medium is struggling with an inflow of fraud and spam.

If you’re not familiar with it, let me give you an example. These are a few of the comments I got on my recent articles.

You’ll notice most of them are meaningless fluff and don’t add anything to the article.

Dealing with such comments and writers who engage just for the sake of drawing money to particular accounts was the reason why Medium went on an account banning spree.

Let’s dive a little bit more into what this means.