I ended up thinking about this the other way round. Sometime last year, one of my “Members only” poems got featured on the Medium front page. It’s this one — hint, hint! Anyways, I only found out about it because I checked my stats and the views for this one was about 20x what I usually get for my Members only stuff. It was great, but then I saw that while it got a lot of views, the read/view ratio was much less than my usual. I concluded that possibly was because it was locked and so folks couldn’t read it. In the hours that followed, the urge to allow people to read what I wrote was extremely strong. In the end, I didn’t unlock it but it was difficult to resist :)