<p>This year has been a very emotional and trying year for me, this was the year I began to battle depression or maybe I would say it’s the year I actually acknowledged my depression and began to take steps towards managing it. Then my dad passed and then poof all the work I put into managing it just went out the window. I discovered a new low, a low I never knew existed, a low I had only ever seen in movies and didn’t understand until it happened to me and it began to eat me up inside. This year was also the year about eighty percent of my friends graduated and then the mistakes I made a couple of years ago met up with me and I began to feel the eight of that as well as my depression. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not jealous of these guys, I am very very happy for them and hope they go on to do great things because most of these guys were guys I grew up, guys I met later in life and we went through a lot together and we grew and bonded. These are guys that are like my brothers, my sisters or close friends. But then it also made me sad because I was supposed to graduate with these guys, I’m supposed to also be saying thank you to those congratulations but I’m here regretting past mistakes and paying for them right now lol. This year is about to end and I would say it was one of the worst years of my life but it was also the best year of my life as well. It is the year I made a lot of big purchases for myself, it’s the year I made money and made even more money, it’s also the year I lost money and lost even more money😂. It’s been an absolute roller coaster of a year and I just want it to be over. I want to just hit the reset button that we hit at the beginning of every year and just start over and see what happens cause this year has been bad. One thing is for sure, this year would forever be a year that is engraved in my memory for the rest of my life and I would never ever forget it! It has been crucial for my characters development in a lot of ways but I hate it and want it to end!</p>
At the end of the month, we give out prizes in 3 categories: Best Content, Top Engagers and
Most Engaged Content.
Best Content
Top Engagers
Most Engaged Content
Best Content
We give out cash prizes to between 7 and 20 community members with the best insights in the past month.
The winners are picked by an in-house selection process.
The winners are NOT picked from the leaderboards/rankings, we choose winners based on the quality, originality
and insightfulness of their content.
Here are a few other things to know for the Best Content track
1
Quality over Quantity — You stand a higher chance of winning by publishing a few really good insights across the entire month,
rather than a lot of low-quality, spammy posts.
2
Share original, authentic, and engaging content that clearly reflects your voice, thoughts, and opinions.
3
Avoid using AI to generate content—use it instead to correct grammar, improve flow, enhance structure, and boost clarity.
4
Explore audio content—high-quality audio insights can significantly boost your chances of standing out.
5
Use eye-catching cover images—if your content doesn't attract attention, it's less likely to be read or engaged with.
6
Share your content in your social circles to build engagement around it.
Top Engagers
For the Top Engagers Track, we award the top 3 people who engage the most with other user's content via
comments.
The winners are picked using the "Top Monthly Engagers" tab on the rankings page.
Most Engaged Content
The Most Engaged Content recognizes users whose content received the most engagement during the month.
We pick the top 3.
The winners are picked using the "Top Monthly Contributors" tab on the rankings page.
Contributor Rankings
The Rankings/Leaderboard shows the Top 20 contributors and engagers on TwoCents a monthly and all-time basis
— as well as the most active colleges (users attending/that attended those colleges)
The all-time contributors ranking is based on the Contributor Score, which is a measure of all the engagement and exposure a contributor's content receives.
The monthly contributors ranking tracks performance of a user's insights for the current month. The monthly and all-time scores are calcuated DIFFERENTLY.
This page also shows the top engagers on an all-time & monthly basis.
Below is a list of badges on TwoCents and their designations.