Jo Ann, I never promised anything to you, and I think you may have misunderstood what the purpose and functionality of the boost program is. I encourage you to kindly read through my piece again and see what we are looking for.

We simply have the ability to nominate a handful of the absolute best of the hundreds of submissions we receive monthly.

For further reading, please see these two pieces by Medium about the distribution standards and the boost system.

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006362473

https://blog.medium.com/a-new-boost-for-top-stories-541884654fdb