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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).

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.

February 18 to 24 Winners

#1 Roopa Swaminathan $200 Editor's Pick

These 10 Quotes on Grief Wrecked me & then put me Back Together.

10
#2 Amy Carr-Hilton $108 Editor's Pick

Rationalizing Anxiety Doesn’t Work—Do this Instead.

9.6
#3 Damini Grover $108

Chronic Emptiness: 9 Signs You’re Emotionally Deprived.

9.0
#4 Guillermo Quijano $108 Editor's Pick

Nobody will tell you this about Relationships—but I Will.

8.9
#5 Sharon A. DeNofa $75

9 Dumb Things Men do in Relationships (& Why they do Them).

8.4
#6 James Ezimoha $75 Editor's Pick

She Finally Told Me Her Name.

8.2
#7 Justice Bartlett $75

Sex & Spirituality: Where Gawd Meets Flesh.

7.9
#8 Eleni Stephanides $50 Editor's Pick

8 Things Privileged people Need to do to Fight Racism.

7.9
#9 Michelle D. Smith $50

“This is living Black in America”—4 Pieces of Black History that we Don’t Know (but Should).

7.6
#10 Elizabeth Gordon $50

A Visceral Question to Point Us in the Right Direction.

7.6

 

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