Interaction On Vocal Top Stories And Challenge Winners

Introduction

Although I am not the most interactive or supportive Vocal Creator, I do drop into Top Stories and Challenge winners every now and then if the title or image catches my eye,

And recently I have noticed something that I see as a strange anomaly.

The Things That I Noticed

Most top Stories are Fiction or Poetry, Challenge entries are whatever the challenge is, but they are also mostly fiction and poetry.

I believed that most Vocal Creators don't see my work as worth reading, and Vocal seldom do, but usually hearts, comments and reads go into double figures.

I dropped into some Top Stories and even though they had been Top Stories for a few days they were still in single figures for reads and hearts, in fact, one had two hearts and no comments and it was not a bad story at all.

The criteria for choosing Top Stories is here:

but I doubt that today it is followed as the same Creators are chosen for Top Stories with the odd person we haven't seen before.

Often when a story is chosen for a Top Story, it may have very few hearts and comments but the exposure then brings in comments, hearts and reads, but not always.

It may just be that Vocal Moderators are not on the same wavelength as Vocal Creatorss when they make their choices, but as I have reiterated many times we really don't want the criteria for Top Story choice or Challenge winners to be public otherwise Vocal stories would become nothing but a tickbox exercise, and we would not want that, would we?

I am not linking any examples, but I am hoping that you will drop into the Top Stories and Challenge winners and check for yourself.

And More Thoughts

I have often asked what would you rather have, a thousand reads on a story or a Top Story. The Top Story gives you $5 and the thousand reads $6 and you know that people have given you their time reading it.

I only have three stories that have passed the thousand-read mark and two of those did it within three or four days, but overall I do get a lot of reads so I am a success on Vocal, I do know that, and people are always telling me how good my work is.

I share a lot of other Creator's stories but can count on my fingers how many times mine have been shared by other creators, but that won't stop me from sharing other Creators' works, because that is part of how this platform works to benefit every creator. This weekend I have shared twelve pieces on these three links:

I am sure that this piece will hit double figures in reads and hearts and maybe comments, but I feel a little sad for those who get a Top Story, and then see they have very few reads, and I know some will say they got their five dollars but I still believe most of us would prefer reads and comments, and the Top Story is just a nice little extra. That is how I feel when I get a Top Story or Challenge Placement (though I have only had one of those so far).

Conclusion

I don't know what the answer is, but go and check out some Top Stories and if the story has less than ten reads or comments then drop a heart and a comment, and you know, the chances are that they will then check you out and read one or two of your stories.

Thank you so much for reading this, I really appreciate it.