The following types of content are not allowed to be locked behind the paywall for earning in the Partner Program. Stories in violation of this policy will be removed from the paywall:
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Stories that are primarily focused on Medium, the Medium Partner program, or the mechanics of Medium (aka “meta” content)
There’s one thing everyone here has in common—Medium, and our passion for it. It makes sense that we all want to talk about it, and analyze it, and write about it.
However, the intended purpose of the Medium Partner Program is to provide the Member audience with the best writing on the internet covering the widest variety of topics.
Meta stories have always been set to "network only" distribution in our system. We have discovered that Medium-focused stories are not of wide general Member interest, and despite potential short-term financial gains in your earnings from other Partners, they can have long-term negative impact on your audience. You don’t want to limit your reach by being muted or blocked by any potential readers.
You are free to write anything you want about Medium outside the paywall—successes, strategies, criticisms, and updates.
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Fully-generated artificial intelligence (AI) writing
We define AI-generated writing as writing where the majority of the content has been created by an AI-writing program with little or no edits, improvements, fact-checking, or changes. This does not include AI writing tools such as AI outlining, or AI assisted fact, spelling, or grammar checkers.
For more information, please see our Artificial Intelligence (AI) content policy