"support and appreciation." Hey Benedette, I totally understand where you're coming from, because I got caught up in a Medium purge, but Medium apologized after 2 days and said it was their error. Yes - I was mad as hell, but they were able to confirm my actions are ALWAYS legitimate and above board. Anyone who can't prove the same thing needs to be barred from the site. Some of the spammers have gotten outrageously out of control, just like you see here in my screen shots: https://bit.ly/3IAtjEY The administrators clearly have to do something, although they could use a new method of weeding the bad guys out :-)