Agree. When a story was flagged with chosen for further distribution and then nothing happened, it looks …. Interesting.

Also, after some stories got distributed for the first time, I also saw a direct decline of views and reads of about 50%.

And also at the same time, my newsfeed was flooded with tons of posts from new writers about one topic:

How to make money on Medium. I had to actively start searching for articles that match my interests more.

More information on the setup of the system would be welcome