Vocal's Dead Communities

Introduction

I suppose this is a Critique of Vocal's treatment of its own communities.

There are forty-Eight Vocal Communities with another four mooted about six months ago. Many communities could be combined, in my opinion,

Geeks & Gamers

Cleats & Unbalanced

Chain & Trader

Proof & Potent

The music is "City of the Dead" by The Clash

What Do I Mean By Dead Communities?

Everyone can still submit stories to any Community, but many communities have not had a Top Story for a very long time. This implies that Vocal are not taking notice, because some of the stories are excellent but just end up sinking in the system.

I will list a few here:

Blush has not had a Top Story for two years, but stories are being submitted regularly.

Cleats has not had a Top Story for a year

Criminal has had no Top Story for six months despite being featured in a Challenge

Earth has been free of Top Stories for eight months

Lifehack has been devoid of Top Story nominations for six months.

Marriage has not had a Top Story in ninee months.

Potent is almost impotent, no Top Story for two years.

Proof is eight months without a Top Story, and I think could be merged with Potent, but maybe Vocal is just ignoring them both.

Serve again is nine months without a Top Story.

Styled is another seemingly off Vocal's radar with no Top Story for eight months.

I always wondered why Chain is out of alphabetical order, and I do believe it could be merged with Trader but no Top Stories for the last year.

Unbalanced could be merged with Cleats but has not had a Top Story in the last six months.

Has WHEEL fallen off? No Top Story here for the last year.

Conclusion

I do believe I am the only Vocal Creator I know who has contributed to every community, and some were a bit awkward for me. But this does leave me wondering do Vocal want to ditch some of the communities.

If they are not getting Top Stories I don't think it's lack of quality stories, but it may be that Vocal just find them tedious and therefore never read stories in those communities.

They will of course deny that.

Hopefully this list will become obsolete and these communities will get some Top Stories.

Thank you for reading.