On the Apparent Lack Of Interaction On Our Vocal Stories

Introduction

Although I have mentioned several times about Top Stories with virtually no apparent interaction, I noticed a couple of instances in some quite old Top Stories.

Vocal makes a big thing about engagement, comments and likes, and unless these stories have got a lot of external reads, I am not sure why these Top Stories have been awarded.

So, The Observations

Each week in The Vocal Social Society, we share Top Stories (usually) by VSS members and non-VSS members to give their work a bit more of a boost.

This recent HUMOR piece had three comments with a total of four words spread over those comments. The article is fine, and it has eight hearts, and it may have been shared elsewhere and got a lot of reads, but I am not certain why it was deemed exceptional enough to be worthy of a Top Story.

This one is from three years ago, but it only had two comments, but twenty-two hearts:

So, lack of interaction is nothing new.

I always say to people, just leave an emoji if you are rushed when you have read a piece and comparing my work to Vocal Top Stories, I usually get a reasonable amount of comments.

There are certain creators who always seem to get a veritable tidal wave of comments on their publications as soon as they publish, but even they sometimes don't get a Top Story with their publication, although they will get the reward from reads.

This seems to point toward a Vocal preferred Creator list, and if you look at Challenge winner lists and Top Story awards, you see a lot of names appearing time after time, but I am sure that is just paranoia.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading, and I appreciate your support.

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