Ahhh, I just mentioned this in my newsletter. I am not sure how it works these days. I don't think Medium puts the top writer tag in the profiles for writers of smaller publications. I am not sure. But I used to chase this as well, and when I had the damn status on my profile, nothing much changed for me. And when I realized that I needed to write and write and write and write and write some more to keep it, I was done chasing that dream.