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Our Ecosystem makes it easy to Get your message out to thousands—& get paid.

Unlike Instagram or Facebook, Elephant is independent, and mission-driven—and despite having (slightly) fewer resources, we believe in paying our writers to offer quality to our readers.

Elephant was one of the first major sites to pay our best, consistent writers. But it was always hard to measure “best.” Now, we are introducing weekly payments to the top 10 articles on Elephant based on their Ecosystem Score—95% determined by our readers’ actions: reads, hearts, comments, and 5% determined by our Editor’s Picks (so that mission balances popularity).

Learn more about the Ecosystem via our FAQ.

New: Want to see the front-runners for next week’s Ecosystem Contest? Our new Contender Leaderboard is available here.

Note: When folks earn identical scores, we use the number of reads as the tiebreaker.

April 15-21 Winners

#1 Roopa Swaminathan $200 Editor's Pick

15 Life-Changing Quotes that helped me Understand (& Check) my Own Privilege. 

9.8
#2 Sharon A. DeNofa $108

What Men Got Wrong about Attraction—& 6 Authentic Signs She is Totally into You. 

9.1
#3 Monika Carless $108 Editor's Pick

The Moon makes me Hungry—A Grounding Recipe for Full Moon.

8.3
#4 Rebekka Lehmann $108

6 Surprising Lessons I learned in my Long-Ass Distance Relationship.

8.0
#5 Michelle Schafer $75

What We’ve Never been Taught about Relationships.

7.9
#6 Billy Manas $75

This Bette Davis Quote Perfectly Describes the Pain that comes from Doing what we Love.

7.7
#7 Val Willis Mayer $75

This is Not an Abortion Rights Discussion—This is my Life we’re Talking About.

7.7
#8 Lori Blevins $50

I’ve Begun Listening to My Body After Decades of Ignoring it (& it’s Pissed).

7.7
#9 Whitney Patterson $50

3 Gentle Ways to Support Others through Change.

7.7
#10 Michelle Schafer $50

Pieces of Him.

7.5

 

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