Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 02/18/2026
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 unique 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): Rachel Deeming - Draft Deleting? Don't Do It!
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Tiffany Gordon - Reject The Serpent's Kiss... ♟️🪃
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Harper Lewis - Love
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Lamar Wiggins - Anticipation
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Julie Lacksonen - Gone - Now What?
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Paul Stewart - Heat Made Language
HandsomelouiiThePoet (Lonzo ward) - Valentine Diaries 💝
Mariann Carroll - Part 2 Interview With Joe Patterson, Author Of Melanin Memoirs
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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By Vocal Curation Team7 days ago in Resources
Goodbye, Mr. Duvall
It is turning out to be an interesting year. I was in the middle of teaching a class when a pop-up appeared on the screen announcing the death of Mr. Robert Seldon Duvall (yes, that was his full name). I was in the middle of a discussion on the obsession we have with winning when it comes to sports (the Winter Olympics was a theme), and I felt as though things were coming full circle. We had already lost Gene Hackman last year, and along with that titan, it feels though one particular golden age has closed off to be replaced by...?
By Kendall Defoe 2 days ago in Geeks
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Thank you Vocal mgt & family! I feel blessed! Congrats everyone! 🥳💪🏾
Congratulations to everyone! 💖
Great job peeps! I read this quote today and liked it so I thought I'd share it here. “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” — Terry Pratchett
congrats!
Congratulations everyone❣
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Congratulations everyone, and thank you for all of your engagement with my work. I’m humbled and honored to be in this space.
Congratulations everyone 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆💙💙💙💙💙
❤️❤️ Thank you to the Vocal team and to all my friends who interacted with me! If only men had a heart and a brain, they could use some bleeping compassion! ❤️❤️ Congratulations to the winners: Rachel 🎊💖 Tiffany 🎊💖 Haaaarrperrr 🎊💖 Lamar 🎊💖 Julie 🎊💖 PAAUULL 🎊💖 Lonzo 🎊💖 Mariann 🎊💖 Andrea 🎊💖
Congratulations to the winners 🏆
Congrats all
Hey, ❤️❤️ Congratulations Everyone🎊