Hi Jodie, your points deeply resonate with me. After my post yesterday now I can see the key factors like greed is playing a role in this situation which turned my optimism into pessimism. I updated my editorial bulletin and will write a new one for my new plans for myself and my community. https://medium.com/illumination/unexpected-earnings-concern-thousands-of-writers-so-i-invite-you-to-patience-and-understanding-9b0e7b675eca

Ironically Scott's account was cloned and the scammer left a message here. Instead fixing these issues Medium cuts the hard earned dollars of authentic writers and removing some innocents ones from the MPP. It is a very sad situation a beautiful community changed to a battefield due to poor management.