I've got the answers to your Boost questions!

Stories have two ways of getting Boosted:

* They may be Boosted by our internal curation team, based on the Medium Quality Guidelines: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006362473

* They may be nominated by our community of publication editors who are part of our Boost Nomination Pilot program. Nominations are then reviewed by our internal curation team, and if they meet our Medium Quality Guidelines, our curators Boost the nomination.

If you want to understand more about both our internal curation team and the Boost Nomination Pilot program, these stories from the Medium Blog are packed with details:

https://blog.medium.com/updated-guidelines-for-boost-47799aad8899

https://blog.medium.com/a-nosy-faq-about-nominating-stories-for-our-boost-44bbf79549c