VocalReviews of vocal.media

Okay.... I joined for the challenge the Little Black Book. Was shocked at the entry that ACTUALLY WON....eh? Sorry to the writer, but I read at least a dozen other writers pen a better one. Seems rigged. Second, I wrote a story that had an afterlife in it. Short story of a dog. No mention of god, or religion... it was philosophical. I am not religious myself, so there WAS NO AGENDA. They rejected it on the grounds of RELIGION....which is not at all the case... THIS OFFENDED ME... completely. BESIDES, even if I was, there was nothing about what religion, or faith... Afterlife belief does not require a faith in a certain religion. So their stance forced my hand to back out of using them as a platform. In fact, I wish I never used them in the first place.... I was irritated that they pushed odd types of writers for strange reason, charged the CREATORS!!!!!!!! like.......what? THIS IS THE MOST BACKWARDS PLATFORM I HAVE EVER SEEN. I have had less readers and made more money on Medium.... BETTER AT MEDIUM

This website is a complete scam! Oo pay for vocal+ You’ll earn more money off reads and can access more challenges. That’s complete crap! They take your money and you don’t get it back! (I paid for a years worth of vocal+) Those so called challenges don’t waste your time. Their bias opinions always go towards what got the most attention (that’s all they care about). Those so called tips. Good luck you’ll have better luck winning the lottery. Getting paid because people read it- half a penny per read. Great unless the website decides to stop tracking your reads! However if you already have a well established blog. Got for it. If you’re an unknown writer like me. Find a different website

AVOID. For a writing platform they are not only opposed to Freedom of Speech but they are actively opposed to any material from the political and religious Centre-to-Right while actively promote material written in favour of Communism and Marxism (political systems that have seen the active government sanctioned systematic genocide of millions) - for context I am Liberal, and my posted topic on the concept of an afterlife was repeatedly put into “Fantasy” as they don’t accept views that promote any form of faith, while not religious myself this is extremely troubling as a stance. They also REFUSE to delete your banking information, REFUSE to delete your account, REFUSE to delete your (owned) posted work. If this platform was around any earlier then great works such as 1984, The Lord of the Rings, Dune, Anna Karenina, the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe... all of these books, works and authors would have been banned from the site for being offensive (this might sound like an over-exaggeration but I PROMISE this is the case). AVOID AT ALL F@CKING COST. Excuse me while I try threatening them with legal action if they continue to refuse to delete my banking information (a LEGAL requirement).

I had issues with the promo code and I emailed in about several times and finally someone got back with me. They said they could cancel my subscription and refund me so I could redo my page and apply the code. Once I agreed responding to the email they stopped reaponding to me. So the first two months that were supposed to be 4.99 I had to pay 9.99 and the adjustment was nevet made and I canceled my account.

was curious when i saw you could win $20,000 for writing a short story, as i'm a very creative person. I read the all the info- and it said you have to subscribe to voice+ to participate, as well as have a "stripe" account active to receive prizes. so i headed to stripe to set up an account and see about getting into this. went through the process with stripe- it seemed very business oriented, not just for getting a payment. i read their VERY long user agreement, detailing all the in's and out's of sending invoices- chargind peoples cards, etc - all geared towards small-mid sized businesses, not individuals just trying to get a payment from a writing site. I thought this was kind of shady,,surely there would be some better ways to get a payout then make a business account for a service ment for companies/businesses to issue invoices and receive payments for goods. .. that made me google and led me to this site. i have to say, i dont like the smell of things. this was a waste of a couple hours of my life... and please- don't take this as an example of my writing skills- it's 3:47 am now :(

Vocal is okay for me as an east coast refugee.

Long story short, They reel you in, force you to $ub$cribe in order to enter their story-writing challenges, they make everything impossible from there on, they store your bank details and don't let you delete them which is illegal - I now have to cancel that card. And to top it all off, there is no 'Deactivate/delete my account' - you have to email them and hope they'll comply. Failure to do so will have them heavily investigated.

My first article was approved. My second article was rejected by the review team because it contained "religion", because I mentioned God and touched on faith and spirituality for the purpose of moral support. Why can't I have the freedom to write about what I choose? There was no harm in my article, no prejudice, nothing of the sort. I have not and won't use this since and, no, there is not any money in this, truly.