A response to ‘We’re Living Through a Clap-Drought’ and how some disabilities can make Medium’s clap feature more difficult than you’d think…
Warning: this post discusses Anxiety & its affects
The talented Jacob Flanders wrote an interesting story recently, encouraging people to clap! clap! clap! on Medium:
Which — if you’ve been on Medium for more than 5 goddamn seconds, you’ve probably heard something about claps.
They’re like applause-o-meters, basically.
Everyone has their own theories of when to clap, when not to clap, how many claps appease the all-holy algorithm, etc.
And everyone, therefore, has their own expectations on the social etiquette of claps.
And people can get… a little intense about it. Sometimes.