That literally makes no sense, Charlene. You have it backward, as many do who like to feed into a culture of online victimization and hyperbolic sentiment. Writers can write wherever they want. By imposing standards at my own publications, I am not restricting writers from doing anything. If I were to say I would not accept writers who write pro-Trump pieces, would that also be jealous? If I were to say I won't accept writers who write anti-semitic stories, would that be jealousy? No.

It's not about jealousy. It's about clear violations of the rules we all play by, clap groups, spamming, usurping the rules, cultish behavior, and a disaster for writers that everyone will see soon when the story breaks about how they make the money the do, on the backs of writers who won't see much of it. It is a ponzi scheme of epic proportion and it will be uncovered and when it does, and the publication vanishes, everyone will look back at comments like yours and wonder how they didn't see it.

Everything about life is about choices. If I choose to make people choose between being part of clap farm with no curatorial guidelines and my publication, that is not jealousy. That is protecting the words. No standards does not protect the words.