Medium and Vocal Curatorship

This story is not a comparison, it is just a review of the two platforms.

If you’ve been writing for a while in Medium or elsewhere, you’ve probably heard about Vocal Media. I’ve been writing in the Vocal since April 2020, but I’ve been inactive for a while for a few occupations and have returned in the last few weeks as an active writer.

As with Medium, there is a moderating area called curatorship, where stories published by writers are evaluated with a fine-tooth comb and those that pass to the criteria of curatorship, which are then distributed on topics to Medium’s more than 170 million readers. In the same way, the Vocal is no different. There is also a team of moderators who analyze all the stories submitted by the writers and later be posted on the platform if they meet the guidelines of the Vocal community.

“Today I want to talk about the small difference between the curatorships of the Medium and Vocal platforms”.

Vocal Curatorship

The Vocal curatorship is usually called “moderators,” which is the team that controls all details about all kinds of written content sent on the platform. Comparing the Vocals with the Medium moderators, the Vocals are more tolerant. They help writers improve their skills as writers. In case your story has a minor typing error or grammatical error, they correct it themselves without rejecting the story. Another very tolerant side of Vocal curation is that if you send a story to the wrong community (“publication”), they select the correct publication themselves.

Note: what in Medium is called publications, in Vocal are called communities. And one of the good things is that all stories published in the Vocal, go through the curatorship and are approved and distributed in topics. This makes even beginners writers in the platform, can have a good performance because the platform itself contributes to its promotion.

You can check below some of the many communities in the Vocal platform, where your story depending on the category can be published.

Besides the Vocal is a platform that helps writers to have a voice when their stories are sent for review. They are very strict when it comes to plagiarism. If they find out that this story is not yours, or is yours and has been published on another platform, they investigate thoroughly until you prove that all rights belong to you. Otherwise, they reject it immediately. If they detect that your story is inadequate at the moment, they will return it and support you as you can improve your story, and then you can send it back to the moderator team to be reviewed and approved if everything is adjusted. I think this is one of the big parts that Medium moderators need to implement because every day new writers are joining the platform, and no matter how many read the guidelines and terms of service, they will need help to understand how the curatorship works.

However, the possibility of playing the patent helps us to gain subsidies for efforts. This is practically what happens in an environment where people need to focus to grow.

Curatorship Medium

The Curatorship Medium is what we can call a kind of Firewall. We don’t understand how some things go through that maximum security wall.

Before the new changes, the Medium Curatorship was the area that took the sleep away from most of the Medium writers. Many didn’t get sleep thinking that their stories had to be distributed on topics. Today we have a special layer of writers who are usually distributed as if they were special writers.

But they were very clear and objective. They told all writers categorically that: “instead of concentrating or waiting for the curatorship, the creators are free to concentrate on the creation, doing the best work for themselves and the public. This helps the creators not to depend too much on the curatorship because that was the biggest focus of the writers before the new updates, so everything changed and became more relational.

But like everywhere mistakes happen. It is common to see impeccable stories that serve as motivation and education for many and even as psychological healing, to be rejected. And it is common to see stories that do not contribute to sustainable development, distributed in topics.

Thinking is important and we must focus on what matters, on creation, giving our best, and winning over the public through what we have done. Medium is amazing and fun to publish the reasoning. That’s why there’s always a little bit among many places that exist on the Web.

The similarity between Vocal and Medium

There are two similarities between the Vocal and the Medium.

The first thing the Vocal and Medium have in common is that if a story is distributed on topics after the curatorship, it does not always mean that it will have a relevant success. Just because your story was published in a giant publication or a giant community does not mean it will have thousands of views and readings. You need to be much more of an SEO strategist so that the optimization of your story can reach thousands of readers in search engines.

The second thing Vocal and Medium have in common is the partner program. To start earning money in the Vocal and Medium, you simply sign up and start earning as soon as your first story is approved or published, since in Medium first the story is published and only then is it reviewed by the curator if it is published in a publication that is not part of the curatorship Medium.

In short: the two platforms are incredible, only each one has its terms and conditions, another facilitates for those who are superior, and another facilitates for every category.