Does Medium Deduct Our Earnings?

What’s with the subtracted views and claps?

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I get it.

We can never fully understand the Medium algorithm. That will be like Coca-Cola sharing its secret ingredient during a press conference. Pepsi would love that though.

Screenshots from the Author’s stats page

However, some of this information has become necessary and would address many misconceptions, like

• Why does the stats page show some subtractions in views and reads?

If the account of a user who engages (views, claps) with your story is deleted or suspended, then the engagement will also be removed. This can cause changes in your stats months or even years after the original engagement. — Medium

• Does this subtraction affect the earnings from the reads?
• If I read half of a story and complete it later, would it be recorded as a read or view?
• The distribution channels for stories chosen for further distribution.

Pretty please, Medium Support, could this be included in the updated version of Medium’s Help Center?

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