Linda, I am a paying suscriber, top writer, senior editor and regularly curated. Like Dr Yildiz I am disqialified on the grounds of my age and location. WHAT!!! So my none American voluntary work as an editor, my free articles, stories, books and poems, my none American money, all is welcome, but my location and age are not. Really? Totally unappreciated is how I feel, of no value at all to Medium.