Thank you so much, Jasmin!! Talk about "making my month..." Eeks!!!
I really appreciate your feedback, Jasmin.💜💜💜💜💜!!!! Being inside the box, I have no idea what my bubbly weirdness looks like to anyone else. I just can't help myself; I'm a playful little kid most of the time and it oozes out everywhere (rather like the spreading muffin top that happened after menopause. Bloody hell, what's THAT all about??!).
I was thinking last night ... I wonder if it might be okay to tag people who have asked me to do it, and if I put a little statement about that above the list - like Trista does. She writes: "I am tagging writers who requested I tag them whenever I publish a piece. If you wish to be tagged, please let me know in the comments."
If I do that and Medium sees it, they shouldn't be able to yell at me for it, right??
I appreciate your kindness in even considering the Patreon thing. It's pretty much the same as subscribing to a newsletter. Just requires an email, essentially, and then when I create a post, I select "free members only" for publishing, and they get an email that has the whole post in it. They don't even have to go to Patreon again; they can just click on each link and be taken to the article in Medium.
The Medium newsletter option does not allow box links!!! So it makes me think they wouldn't be too keen on 20 or 30 hyperlinks either. And it would show up on my profile, so I'd still be under the watchful eye of Medium Powers That Be.
Setting up something like MailerLite with all the opt-in misery and then all the actual creation of each newsletter with drag-dropping of image boxes and text boxes and blah blah blah ... it's time-consuming (I know this, because I've had mailing lists for my businesses in the past).
I don't need to make more work for myself. I just want to make the dang links available to everyone who wants to see them!
So perhaps putting the 'requested to be tagged' message would be good. At least it would be a good defense if they yanked me from the MPP or shut me down in any way.
Maybe ??! (still a bit scary - I don't need the grief!)
