I've blocked people and Medium will send me their stories anyway! And I can see from my views/reads that this is metered artificially, looking at Linda's screenshot. I've had this feeling for a while. "Today, Amy will get 300 views. Tomorrow, 202." That's accurate. And the only stories of mine it shares at larger levels are those about "women's issues" ... since apparently Mr Algorithm thinks all we care abt is our external appearance.