I've had the exact same experience with blacklisting. My posts haven't been recommended, featured or curated by Medium in years. Used to earn good money here, now just pennies. Strange ... my creative work is good enough for The New York Times, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, Harvard Business Review, Reader's Digest, etc., but not for Medium. Writers are jumping ship at record rates but @coachtony doesn't seem to care abour retaining talent. It's a gong show.