Hi Trisha! Especially with what I saw and analyzed in August and September I was a big supporter of this and tried to read as many of the underdogs as I could. I think it helped.

But based on numbers I've done - those older stories that those of us read that are regular supporters are paying at best .01 for a 100% read. The system is seeing it as a "--" -- you know what, I don't know how to qualify it as I don't know, but I understand that some beautiful and great quality stories do go unnoticed but I think the timing is starting to affect payment.

Now if the point of this is to just get exposure and engagement and introduction to writers - then by all means, awesome1

I think what may help is to share underdogs of articles posted within the last 2 weeks - I think it would be better! I think?

Edit 10–30–23

I just saw some of my older articles with just one read get paid a much higher rate like what we saw in August. So I retract the above!…it’s all Changing too much and not consistently to really make sense of it.