I wish I had seen an article like this when I was starting out. I do seem to be in curation jail, but as a poet from what I’ve seen curation doesn’t bestow all that much of a boost. So, whatever. It doesn’t make a lot of sense that they give you a look upfront and then banish you from consideration. There can’t be *that* many articles flowing through that they can’t at least take a glance at this, especially from regular posters. As you said, it takes a while to get the hang of Medium and people do get better, or at least they get around to reading the requirements at some point. Ah well.