Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 09/10/2025
Celebrating creativity, engagement, and community building on Vocal.
Welcome to our weekly Leaderboard update! We're delighted to highlight Vocal's most popular stories. Join us as we recognize this week's standout contributors and their remarkable achievements.
A reminder of some ground rules we use to formulate the Leaderboard:
The time period of data analyzed for each weekly Leaderboard is collected from 12:00am Wednesday - 11:59pm Tuesday ET each week. Only top level comments and replies by Vocal+ creators will count, comments or replies by the story author will be excluded. You don’t need to be Vocal+ to appear on the leaderboard. You can appear on the Leaderboard once per week. You can appear on the Leaderboard multiple weeks in a row. No AI generated content.
✨ Most Discussed Stories this Week ✨
Here are the stories that have sparked the most comments with their engaged readers this week.
🏆 Winners
🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): John Cox - ten thousand little deaths
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Caroline Jane - Super Position for A Photo*
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Matthew Fromm - Cast No Shadow
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Paul Stewart - Much Too Young - Much Too Old
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Rick Henry Christopher - Miss Gloria Hits the Catwalk (Part Three): Gloria Goes Viral
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred - Considering The Situation .. Again
Each winner will receive a well-deserved bonus in their Vocal Wallets within the next 72 hours.
Congratulations to all the winners! We love what you bring to the table at Vocal. Here's to another week of excellent writing and reads.
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Hi Leaderboard Staff, I have a question about what "unpublished" means in the context of the Vocal Challenges. Do you mean print publishing, or any kind of publishing including online or on social media? There seems to be a confusing number of definitions out there right now that writers need to follow. For instance, Rattle uses "un-curated" as a designation to consider whether something is published or not. Then, book publishers seem to consider online publishing unpublished unless you are entering a contest. In that case online publishing is considered published. In other words, the first view anywhere is Vocal? I ask this because a piece that 3 people have read and a piece that 10,000 people have read don't seem equal in terms of publishing to me, but much of life doesn't measure out in cups of fairness. Thanks, Natalie
Warm congrats evey one. Those who support me 🙌 will always have my support🤝 in return✨
Congratulations, everyone
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Well done one and all. Gives yourselves a big pat on the back
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Congratulations to John Cox, Caroline Jane, Matthew Fromm, Paul Stewart, Mike Singleton, J.S. Wade, Kenny Penn, J.R. Lowe, and Mother Combs for placing on the Leaderboard. I want to send a special Thank You to the indelibly crazy Miss Gloria!!! 🤣🤪💜🩷💙
Way to go, writers and readers! Keep validating and interacting! Power through.