<h1>HYGIENE </h1><p><br/></p><h2> Are We Really Safe?</h2><p><br/></p><p>In traffic jams across some cities, I often notice something curious: a wrapper drifting from a passing vehicle, a bottle tossed beside the road. At first glance, it seems trivial—just one small piece of waste. Yet, as the streets fill, drains clog, and sidewalks littered, it becomes clear: these small choices, repeated by many, quietly shape the spaces we all inhabit.</p><p><br/></p><p>Hygiene often brings to mind brushing teeth, showering, or tidying homes. But environmental hygiene stretches far beyond the private sphere. Clean, safe, and functional public spaces do not arise from policy alone—they emerge from countless individual decisions, observed over time, silently shaping the collective environment.</p><p><br/></p><p>Waste does not appear spontaneously. It reflects moments of convenience, where the immediate outweighs the communal. Observing this cycle—the temporary clearing by sanitation workers, the slow return of debris—offers a perspective often overlooked. Streets, walkways, and public squares carry the imprint of behavior, revealing how personal habits ripple outward.</p><p><br/></p><p>Infrastructure, community patterns, and subtle social norms reinforce these behaviors over time. Education ensures that younger generations internalize responsibility naturally, without instruction. The streets, the blocked drains, the traffic slowed by discarded waste—they are mirrors. They reflect care, attention, and discipline—or the absence of it.</p><p>The question is not whether we are safe—it is whether we notice how our actions shape the spaces we share.</p><p><br/></p><p>I am your favorite writer, just passing by, observing—and I wanted to share these reflections with you.</p><p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000116976.png"/></p>
At the end of the month, we give out prizes in 3 categories: Best Content, Top Engagers and
Most Engaged Content.
Best Content
We give out cash prizes to 7 people with the best insights in the past month. The 7 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.
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 "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 "Monthly Contributors" tab on the rankings page.
Here are a few other things to know for the Best Content track
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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.
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Share your content in your social circles to build engagement around it.
Contributor Rankings
The Contributor Rankings shows the Top 20 Contributors on TwoCents a monthly and all-time basis.
The all-time ranking is based on the Contributor Score, which is a measure of all the engagement and exposure a contributor's content receives.
The monthly score sums the score on all your insights in the past 30 days. The monthly and all-time scores are calcuated DIFFERENTLY.
This page also shows the top engagers on TwoCents — these are community members that have engaged the most with other user's content.
Contributor Score
Here is a list of metrics that are used to calcuate your contributor score, arranged from
the metric with the highest weighting, to the one with the lowest weighting.
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Comments (excluding replies)
5
Upvotes
6
Views
1
Number of insights published
2
Subscriptions received
3
Tips received
Below is a list of badges on TwoCents and their designations.
Comments