I would be more wary of absurdly high follows and followers compared to their time on the platform, and anyone with many posted stories per day. I've been watching all new subscribers and I find myself blocking many. I havent had the patience yet to tackle my followers list but I should.

As for earnings, I have not been bait and switched. Because I was reading your article, I updated my spreadsheet. I total MPP metrics (member reads, member clappers, member highlighters, member follows, and then divide the earnings by that total to calculate earings per engagement. Let's just look at the figures since I joined FOM when it came out. Initially 12.6 cents per engagement. The next month it dropped to 8.2 cents. The next month 7.7 cents and this month up to 11 cents.