Text of Medium exec Buster Benson's response in Nancy's story:

We’ve been ramping up some new anti-spam and anti-fraud measures and want to assure you that we have no intention of permanently suspending legit accounts. We are repairing accounts that appeal and help us understand how their accounts were incorrectly flagged.

If anyone feels they have been unfairly suspended please write in to https://yourfriends.medium.com with details about your account. We will be reviewing and restoring appeals over the coming week.

This has been necessary as fraudulent actors have been on the rise recently, as I’m sure some of you may have even noticed. But we are going to make sure that accounts improperly picked up in this will be rectified.

That said, some of the actions of fraudulent actors may not always be readily apparent on the surface, and it may sometimes appear that we are suspending accounts without reason. I hope you will understand that is not actually the case, and in general for reasons of privacy etc we can’t always get into all of the reasons for suspension of specific accounts.