[normloman]

"Ideally, Williams envisions Medium much like a magazine creative director, inviting the types of items that may show up in a magazine, from features to top-ten lists to cartoons to even video."

Good. The internet needs more top 10 lists.

[rtpg]

Top 10 lists might be the lowest form of journalism but accepting articles as top 10 lists allows us to avoid the "fake article that actually is a top 10 list" situation. A nice price to pay.

[normloman]

Or you could just use human editors with discretion and reject both types of articles.