Okay, now I understand what happened. I'm surprised, but not really. There used to clap clubs organized on Facebook back in 2018, I think. It was really frustrating, it went on for awhile, as I recall, and Medium "fixed" it by not paying by the clap - they began to focus more on time spent reading which screwed things up for anyone writing poetry. It's always something. I original joined in 2016 and left when Ev screwed up the format big time - I forget when that was now.

I still think it's an interesting place to be, but it's never as good to writers as writers are to each other.