I'm still hoping for Medium to go back to being the wonderful place it was until recently. As I understand it, there is a bot problem and an AI problem, and Medium is struggling to restore pay to Real Writers. Here is my proposed fix: We have to enter our personal taxing info in order to be in the partner program. Why can’t Medium use this information to control the bots? You can’t run a dozen or a thousand fake identities if you have to provide your real personal info for every account. Force people to provide this info or their engagement doesn’t count. Wouldn't that remove the motivation to invent tons of fake identities?