As part of our planned upgrades, the Utopian Bot has undergone various changes to adopt a more decentralised approach based on our brand new scoring system.
Getting an Utopian Upvote
Prior to this update, only contributions which were marked as accepted by a Utopian Moderator could enter the voting round. Now, contributions with a score of at least 80 and a total influence greater than or equal to that made by one moderator, can enter the voting round. Contributions are only eligible for the voting round 48 hours after submission, for them to gather enough scores from the community.
This spreads the distribution of influence more between all Utopian users, rather than having it concentrated among Moderators alone.
Factors for an Utopian Upvote
The Utopian Bot now considers the following factors for entering contributions into the voting round.
1. Staff Picks
Contributions which were marked as Staff Picks by our Community Managers always enter the voting round first and they are the first ones to be voted. They are an example of top quality and serve as guidance for the community. Such contributions always get the maximum upvote possible based on the categories they are in.
2. Top Scored with Highest Influence
Just after Staff Picks, all the other contributions may enter the voting round. The order starts with those that got the best scores and where the scores were made by users with the biggest influence overall on the platform. The list goes on sorting contributions according to their scores and the relative influence associated with them.
Voting Power Is Limited
Categories no longer have a minimum vote, only a maximum vote as detailed below. The Utopian Bot can only use 20% of its total voting power, in a day. As a result, not every contribution may enter the voting round, making the Utopian.io vote an incentive only for top quality contributions. The Utopian vote is thus not guaranteed for every contribution.
Maximum Vote Strength for Categories
The Utopian Bot will vote on contributions with different voting strengths, depending on category. Every category has a maximum limit.
- Suggestions: 5%
- Development: 30%
- Bug Hunting: 8%
- Translations: 20%
- Graphics: 25%
- Analysis: 25%
- Visibility: 15%
- Documentation: 15%
- Tutorials: 15%
- Video Tutorials: 20%
- Copywriting: 15%
- Blog: 15%
- Task requests: 4%
The values reported above are subject to change as the value of STEEM changes.
Utopian.io is inviting the community to help decide the maximum voting strengths for each of the categories above. Take our survey now!
Moderation Rewards
After restructuring our moderation teams, we turned our attention to their reward structures. They too needed adjustments to reflect the skills, expertise and commitment that Moderators bring to Utopian.
After collecting feedback from all our Moderators and Community Managers, rewards for moderation activities have been increased as follows:
- Suggestions: 2 points per review
- Development: 4.25 points per review
- Translations: 4 points per review
- Graphics: 3 points per review
- Documentation: 2.25 points per review
- Copywriting: 2 points per review
- Tutorials: 4 points per review
- Analysis: 3.25 points per review
- Visibility: 2 points per review
- Blog: 2.25 points per review
- Video Tutorials: 4 points per review
- Bug Hunting: 3.25 points per review
- Task requests: 1.25 points per review
The maximum weekly cap has also been increased to 250 points.
Upcoming Changes
There are a few more exciting changes to look forward to as we make Utopian.io a better place for Open Source participants:
- Better questions for the Quality Questionnaire
- Enhancements to the Projects and Feeds interfaces
- Switching from Rules to Guidelines
Top Sponsors
 @freedom - Vote Witness |  @misterdelegation |
 @ned |  @wackou - Vote Witness |
 @xeldal - Vote Witness |  @fenghuang |
Top Moderators
 @tykee |  @jmromero |
 @syedumair |  @zoneboy |
 @samhamou |  @codingdefined |
I notice that utopian.io does not have a voting category for:
eg. proof of governance done in a community, or execution of reward structure proposed to a community eg. in Curie, ComedyOpenMIc, etc.
Can we have something for this in Utopian, it's an implementation of an idea worth sharing?
this sure looks like something that would marry the upcoming hivemind/communities very well. nice idea.
Hivemind sounds like an insult right, just me?
ok.
So to summarise, contributions can enter a voting round w/o moderator's review. Requirements are:
Score is obvious, but in order to receive total influence of 60, we need a contribution to be reviewed by:
Am I correct? :)
Exactly. You are totally correct on this
Is there any way so that graphic designers and 3D artists can be a part of your team? I really wanna work with this amazing platform and improve myself.
We have a category for designers and graphics contributions. You can check https://utopian.io/task-graphics to find an ongoing task request and you may still find a project in GitHub that would benefit from your contribution and is actually used.
If you mean the work directly for Utopian needs, then it can be answered only by @elear.
Thanks for the info, @espoem. This is just what I was looking for. I look forward to sharing Blender modeling and animation tutorials someday.
Great job guys! That should push the quality way up!
Shouldn't we display all contributions in the main page? Contributions that have not been moderated yet are only accessible in the Review section, and I dont think much people will go in there to score them.
That being said, I m really excited to see where it goes! =)
I agree about showing all in the main page, at least until rejected :)
Mmmh I like the idea where everyone can contribute but 48 hours ? This seems like an unnecessary limit where we can miss the vote just by being unlucky. This incentivizes users to spam moderators just because they are afraid of not being reviewed in time.
Edit : upvoted for visibility
Hey @howo. 48 hours is the time before the contribution may enter the voting round to make sure ut can get enough ratings. It means after 48 hours the contribution is elegible and has more than 4 days to get a chance to be voted.
Aaaaah ok this changes everything my bad :p
Having a simple tags management might speedup the way community search for contributions to review. My use case would be: javascript-tagged development contribution.
You are literally pushing forward vast majority of open-source projects supporting STEEM blockchain.
I'm really impressed. Great job people.
Considering this tags are not actually the posts tags.
As the upvote is not guaranteed, and the number of post tags is limited, given the contributor the max number of tags is a way to allow him to target a greater audience.
It's more on the UI/UX perse.
I have the impression that in some categories it will be very hard to reach this score of 80.
Score 80 is mandatory if a moderator does not review it.
Contributions may get into the voting rounds with lower score as well if they are reviewed by the moderator.
That's literally why I mentioned "Communication" as a "Dislike".
Every update freaks out contributors, haven't had a single one where not some people thought it's over now, because it wasn't clear enough communicated what the consequences are.
It has to be clearly said what exactly changes and what stays the same and that people will still receive upvotes and that this is not the end of utopian as a whole.
Can you share more why you think that Utopian would end? In my opinion, the post contains the needed information and is explained quite simply. It is understandable that the wording might have been better so there is no confusion, nevertheless.
We are here, especially in Discord, to answer any questions that our users have.
After reading this I was 100% sure, that only posts with a score of at least 80 are upvoted, resulting in a minority of posts getting the upvote.
This would imho have broken utopian.
I think I don't have to elaborate any further why this would be bad for contributors, projects and utopian as a whole. I mean, we do want to get more people to do contributions, right? And a too high hurdle for beginners (or even experienced developers) would demotivate them, resulting in fewer good contributions...
Of course stuff that is clearly against the rules or really really bad to the point of being spam should deserve no upvote. But if something brings value to a project it should be upvoted (even if it is just a little).
I can see the cause of misunderstanding and it could be probably solved by adding one word.
There is no real "little" or "symbolic" vote at the moment.
Utopian votes are meant for the best of the best. If there are not enough of them, then other people may be upvoted as well.
Yes definitively. Very often it's just these little things that would improve the understanding.
Is it actively beeing rounded? Because I thought it should be the score times the maximum upvote for the category.
I haven't seen too many of the best of the best anywhere ;)
These^ words should be mentioned in the article also. The related discussion proves that people are misleading whole conception. Not only +80 score contributions have a chance to be rewarded.
exactly this is why i wrote above my comment....i dont know how it will be implemented in a way to let people be stimulated in doing contributions.....maybe as stated "Contributions are only eligible for the voting round 48 hours after submission, for them to gather enough scores from the community." the community will have also the power to give some judgement on the work and give a score in order to make it less centralaized on moderators. if this is not the case then only mods will get the highest scores as they will abuse their power and give a boost to their contributions.
As @espoem already mentioned a score of 80 is only needed to enter the voting round when a moderator or community manager hasn't reviewed it. We have also been working on improving the questionnaire, so quality contributions will definitely be able to reach a score of 80!
thanks for the clarification !! then this could be a great way to stimulate networking in the community and let people be more active on utopian !! Thanks again
Hello. How do I get help with utopian.io? I have questions that are not answered anywhere in the FAQ. I cannot find any channel of communication with any member of utopian.io team other than their Steemit pages. Is there a discord channel for utopian.io? A Steemit.chat? An email? Thanks.
Hi, we have Discord. We also have a help desk, where you can submit your questions.
Thank you for this great update! I believe the moderators are well motivated now.
We had this in mind for some time. We saw that moderators do a lot in Utopian.
This should significantly improve the quality of contributions! Well done.
We will see more improvements when the community starts scoring its members and networking with each other.
Nice update, we wish the best
Thank you. We look forward to seeing the community be more engaged in scoring and networking, not only writing the contributions.
if i understood well all contribution scoring above 80 will get the upvote from the bot....so let's suppose my contribution scores less than 80...what would happen ?? just accepted...full stop ?? what would be my benefit to contribute then in any project knowing that if i do not score over 80 i get nothing as a reward ?? let me know if i misunderstood the idea !! thank you in advance
Hi, the score threshold is there for cases that a moderator does not see a good contribution in time. This gives you higher chances to get in the voting round.
If a moderator reviews your contribution, you get in the queue. It can be the first day or the fourth day. The score is meant to be dynamic and depends on our user base.
so this means that now even utopian community will have the "power'' to vote and give a score to others contributions ??
The scoring system has been applied for few days already.
The community will have impact on the reward and actually may decide which contribution will have higher chance to be upvoted by Utopian.
thanks for the clarification !! all clear now and seems much better than before !! :)
Good Job! This is a great update!
Thank you. more will come
stay tuned :)
Translations open ??
I don't think so, but if it is included here, is because is planned to be re-added.
My last translation contribution to Utopian.io was 6 weeks ago.
Nice update, I like that categories no longer have a minimum vote.
I think an excellent idea, certainly is much more decentralized vote. If I understand well, no matter if a mod has not reviewed your post, if it has reached a score of 80, is already included in the voting round, no matter if it is accepted or not?.
Yes that's right. If your contribution gets a score of 80 and has enough reputation influence behind the scores, it will enter the voting round.
We are glad you like the changes we are making.
And if that post breaks a rule? For example, in graphics a post could easily reach a good score because of the striking work, but in fact, it can break easy one of the rules of this category. Who's checking that?
Moderators and Community Managers still have the ability to flag posts that break fundamental rules, like plagiarism etc; and they will be checking contributions.
The community can also report such cases to us as well and action will be taken.
Utopian is always shining the world !
Waiting for Upvote Bot for a long time, now we will see better contributions.
Hi,
Another great post. Easy to read. Let me suggest something that may help your readers a lot.
At the beginning of the post use
The difference will be huge. Just like on picture below:
Good luck mate :) Obviously upvoted
Yours, Piotr
oh jezzz.
I just realized my silly mistake. In my previous post I didnt include the code that would justify text. Silly me.
Here is short article I've found that explain how to do it:
https://steemit.com/html/@dyrits/steem-it-1-how-to-justify-your-text
Oh and I also wanted to thank you for your comment in my latest contest. I appreciate your time and support. Cheers! :)
Yours,
Do you guys have any plan on taking new mod?
Hi, we may think about taking new members in the future. We have made changes in the organisation of the moderators. There are few categories that do not yet have enough entries so moderators from those areas help in other categories as well since they are related to each other or the moderator is capable of handling different contributions with ease.
Sorry if this has been answered somewhere, but from what I understand about these rule changes, people who haven't been moderated can now get votes... which is cool but what does this mean for moderated contributions?
it is great for the development of the entire steemit platform.@utopian-io
Hi @utopian-io,
I'm a 3D artist from the Philippines. I've used Blender and GIMP on some big name animation productions in my previous job.
I'd like to get involved here and share my experiences and knowledge with other artists, especially those who are just starting out.
I'm currently writing my second blog entry, and it will be about those animated shows I've worked on with Blender.
You can check out my introduction post to know more about me.
Please notify @Wackou to tell @Drakos to stop censoring @GrumpyCat and @MadPuppy comments.
In 72 hours if I do not see a post that either @drakos will stop censoring my comments or that @wackou will undelegate I will have no other choice than to start flagging your posts.
Thank you.
I now follow @wackou and @drakos.
First of all, @wackou has nothing to do with your sorry ass, he delegated to me out of his own generosity so I can curate more content when I lost a 5k delegation from another generous person, @fulltimegeek.
Second, you were flagging me for a while, and now you're getting a payback slap in the face. What's the matter, feeling threatened all of a sudden by a 25k delegation that happened WEEKS ago?
Shame on you, lashing out at an exceptional person like @wackou, but it proves AGAIN that you're a jerk. You have demonstrated that countless times.
So take your 72h threat and shove it. If you keep pushing, I may ask for more delegations to counter you.
What? I have no idea what you are talking about here. I don't even know how to get in touch with @Wackou. Not sure why you randomly picked this post and asked for such a thing, but nor me nor Utopian has anything to do with this. So please keep your wars away from us. We are totally not interested, Thanks