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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.

October 22-28 Winners

#1 Janice Dolk $200 Editor's Pick

Can a Sexless Relationship Survive?

10
#2 Justice Bartlett $108

How to Poison a Relationship—& the Antidote that will Save It.

9.5
#3 Michelle Schafer $108

Dear Girl, that Man is Not the One: The Darkness of Being the Other Woman.

9.5
#4 Sarah Draper $108 Editor's Pick

The Quote that Changed my View of “the One” (& Left me Longing for the Romantic I once Was).

8.8
#5 Roopa Swaminathan $75

Friendship Ghosting is Real (& Yes, Women still Dump their Girlfriends—for a Dude).

8.3
#6 Dwight Raatz $75 Editor's Pick

Untying the Knot: How Making a Divorce Ceremony brought Closure to my Relationship.

8.1
#7 Rebekka Lehmann $75 Editor's Pick

It’s not Empathy we’re Lacking—it’s Compassion.

8.1
#8 Billy Manas $50

The Childhood Wounds that Cause us to Fail at Love.

8.0
#9 Kathleen Yeo $50 Editor's Pick

Dear Yoga: I Found my way Back to You.

8.0
#10 Amanda Van Graan $50

4 F*cked Up things We all Do but Never Talk About.

7.9

 

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