Vocal Creator Chat: 5/30/23

Have questions about creating stories, growing your audience, and getting rewarded on Vocal? The Vocal community and team are here to help answer your questions and feedback together.

Every Tuesday at 12 PM ET, we'll assemble the Vocal community, as well as our Creator Experience and Product teams, in a thread to respond to creator inquiries for one hour.

Please follow Vocal’s Community Guidelines and don’t spam your own profile or stories in the thread. We encourage the community to report users or comments that break these guidelines.

Some updates and reminders from the Vocal team:

• Vocal is officially on Discord. We are taking community to the next level by giving you a new way to share your work, chat with other creators, and shape the future of the Vocal product.

• We launched our Dancing with Distraction acrostic poetry Challenge.
• We are about to launch 4 brand new Communities: Art, History, Humor, and Men. There will be special bonuses for being an inaugural contributor, as well as Challenges for each community. Stay tuned for more details this week.
• We have received several complaints about plagiarism and want you to know that we hear you. Every day we are testing new methods to prevent the publication of plagiarism and spam. We understand that the onus for moderating these bad actors should not rely on our wonderful community of creators, but we also need your help. We are adding a Discord channel for reporting plagiarism and spam, will continue monitoring reported stories directly on the site, and are implementing new moderation flows to combat this issue.
• The Vocal Merch store is launching on June 15th.

Got questions about Vocal or feedback about what’s new? Leave a comment in this thread to join the Vocal Creator Chat.

Also, be sure to join our Raise Your Voice Threads every Thursday at 12PM ET to champion inspiring stories and outstanding creators on Vocal. Save it to your calendar so you don’t miss it.