Yes, I've had quite a few, Debra. Enough to make me realise that there are boosted months, when a few of those are active, and non-boosted months, when it's tumbleweed city. Feast and famine.

And I've had 'lesser' (in my eyes) stories boosted, and then 'better' pieces submitted to the same pub overlooked. Or maybe they were nommed and Curation rejected them. But I have no way of knowing that. And so no way of adapting or adjusting. One improvement would be for the writer to be cc'd into the communication loop between Nommer and Curation. So you get to hear 'I'm nominating this piece because a, b and c.', and the response 'Yes, we agree.' or 'Sorry, we don't feel it's right, because x, y and z.'.

But more simply, just flag it up for everyone. Writers get told which of their pieces were nommed, and readers get told which of the pieces they see are boosted, rather than trying to perform some reverse engineering calculation of 'total clappers + comments / days since posted = x = > y = boost likelihood 0 or 1'.

Medium is constantly being told 'Stop being so fickle and secretive'. And yet it keeps adding more layers to that. If it's genuinely necessary, explain why.

Basic communication skills. Basic courtesy.

That's my increasingly jaded perspective.