IF I RAN THE WORLD
Some Radical Ideas About Boosting
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By the way, I am not in charge. That’s the other Tony. I do wish y’all would stop getting confused by this. It’s pretty simple to tell the difference: I’m much older, and he is in charge.
Try to remember that as you read this ridiculous story.
If I were in charge, I’d be changing how Boosting works. First, any publication editor could submit from the pubs where they are, duh, editors. That takes care of the “They rejected me as a nominator” complaints.
That doesn’t mean that your lovingly illustrated story about your last visit to Wichita’s Finest Bondage & Discipline Club will be accepted. Well, maybe it would, depending on the illustrations and the humor content. But you know what I mean: not much chance of a Boost there.
Next, Medium curators would not know who wrote it or what pub it came from. They’d only get the text, with all identifying marks removed. This is to stop the “Sure, Xyz does write acceptable things sometimes, but I’m rejecting it anyway” effect.
Most importantly, these redacted stories would be submitted to five random curators. Each curator would assign a 1–10 score, not a reject/accept. Total of the score determines reject/accept and the nominator gets to see the…
