Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 07/23/2025
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): Caitlin Charlton - A Moment of Calm at the Farm with a drowning wasp !
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Paul Stewart - Semantic Satiation & Other Fatal Ejaculations
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Sandy Gillman - Quiet Strength, Unrequited Love
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): D.K. Shepard - When One Door Closes
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Mariann Carroll - My Short Interview With Sandy Gillman, A Proud Mother Of A Toddler
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Rachel Deeming - Talk to each other before you kill each other
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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The story invoked strong personal emotions
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📢 Raise Your Voice Thread: 01/08/2026
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By Raise Your Voice by Vocal2 days ago in Resources
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Great job all!
Well done everyone 🥰📖
Congratulations to you all!! Amazing work. 💛🌻
Thank you so very much Vocal and for all you lovely people who commented and chatted with me. I loved learning about your life on the farm and being apart of your day ♥️🙏🏽🤗 congratulations to all those who were mentioned here. 🎉👏🏽🎊
Congrats to you all 🦋♦️✍️✍️✍️✍️🏆
Congratulations to All My Brother Ans Sister,s
Congratulations to everyone! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Congratulations!!🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to all of you!
Thanks and congratulations everyone
Congratulations 🎊 👏
Congratulations everyone 🎉
Congratulations everyone 🎉
Thank you to all who read my pieces. I appreciate you all and you Vocal too.
Congratulations to all
Thank you!! Congratulations too!!!❤️❤️💕
Congratulations 🤍👑👑
Congratulations, Everyone!
Ahem, thank you Vocal and the people who read my lovely poem. It's always appreciated. Ahem, ahem, ahem. I think we've all learned something, in life. Well done to everyone else. Lovely to share the leaderboard with other great people and great to see Caitlin at the top spot - I think I still need to read that. Thanks and congrats!