I love this question! So, because Boosting didn’t existing 7 months ago, and the Boost Nomination Pilot is only 6 months old, part of what we’re doing is testing out how the functions work before we start the process of building the tools… so that we can build the tools to work the best for everyone. It’s definitely not a concern about identification skewing results… it’s more a concern of our engineering team being focused on Medium Partner Program work right now. My Boost functions have to wait their turn in the development queue.

This all to say, it’s certainly nothing shady… just the reality of a beta program, and a small company with a busy engineering team.