Right! I've made up my mind to drop FOM in March. I was about to consider creating another standard membership account, and steering completely away from Medium meta stories, but on second thought, it would probably be in vain. I've written numerous non-Medium stories that still don't get much love or distribution, plus too many other writers in various genres are experiencing the very same problem I am. There's no getting around the fact that this is a Medium defect. Thanks Stephen :-)