Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 10/08/2025
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 donβt 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.
β¨ Most Discussed Stories this Week β¨
Here are the stories that have sparked the most comments with their engaged readers this week.
π Winners
π₯ First Place ($20 Bonus): Paul Stewart - Death Knows Not of Consent
π₯ Second Place ($15 Bonus): Matthew Fromm - Letters From The Front
π₯ Third Place ($10 Bonus): Caitlin Charlton - Failed Society
π Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Jay Kantor - ~Suits~
π Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Rick Henry Christopher - Miss Gloria Gets a Surprise Visit From Oliver Olivier
π Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Tiffany Gordon - Escorting For The Limelight: Whose In The Running? Part 1
Mike Singleton π Mikeydred - Birthday Thoughts
Sam Spinelli - Unofficial Challenge: More Howls for Halloween!
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 Raise Your Voice by Vocal3 days ago in Resources
Violence Begets
"Any last words, cowboy?" "None you'd understand, sodbuster." "Funny. That's Marshall Sodbuster to you. But I meant some last nugget that would help us in the adjudication of the myriad offenses counted against you and your gang. I wasn't asking for penitence."
By Adam Diehl3 days ago in Fiction
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Some great writing here. Congrats everyone!
congratulation to all
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Congratulations to all the winners and honorable mentions! Itβs inspiring to see so much creativity and engagement across the community each week.
congratulation to all vocal community
Good job all!π
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Congrats to the winners! π₯³
Good job
Congratulations writers! A special shout out for Vocal Social Society's head hauncho, MikeyD.
Love seeing some awesome creators up there!! <3 Congrats to everyone!
Congratulations everyone π
Congratulations to Paul Stewart for taking the top spot on the leaderboard this week. Further congrats to Matthew, β¨Caitlinβ¨, Jay, β€οΈTiffanyβ€οΈ, Mike Singleton, Sam, Donna, and the wonderfully supportive Mariann Carroll. I want to thank the Vocal team for developing this great community for us artsy/intellectual types. Lastlyβ¦ thank you Gloria Cupidon - you sure are a hoot!!! π€£ππ
Great job everyone! :)
Yay!!! Congrats to everyone! I've read a good portion of these and they are so deserved! ππππ
Congratulations everyone! I have some catch-up reading to do.
Congratulations to everyone!
ππΎπCongratulations Paul, Jay kantor, RICK!! YAAY! GLORIA AT IT AGAIN Anyways sorry. Congratulations Tiffy, Mike, Sam, Donna and Mariann. Congratulations to you all. And thank you so so very much to the vocal team and to my friends who read and commented π€β€οΈππΎππ