Can we just ban medium? There's a high correlation between fancy blogs and useless fluff inside them.
Users browsing /new need to wade through quite a few fluff pieces and upvote the interesting ones. Users with high karma can also flag individual submissions (it needs multiple separate users to flag to take an effect). Domains can only be blacklisted on domain level. IMHO medium.com is a platform and also brings much good content. Some companies moved their official blogs there (for good or worse, I hear it drives "engagement").