Giving Project Owners a Home on Utopian.io!

Utopian.io is making changes to give project owners more functions on the platform. We have exciting updates coming up that will help project owners better manage their Open Source projects on Utopian.io.

An opt-in bug report feature for GitHub

We realized that project owners needed to be more involved in the contribution processes, especially bug reports. Therefore, to prepare for our upcoming whitelist opt-in feature made for project owners, we have currently stopped all bug reports from being sent to GitHub as issues.

The whitelist feature will enable project owners to opt-in and start receiving bug reports directly into their repositories as issues. We want to encourage close collaboration between contributors and project owners on the platform, and we believe giving project owners more control over this aspect will be beneficial. As they would have their projects officially present on Utopian.io, they can also leverage the other features we have to really control the development of their projects.

Inviting Open Source project owners to get in touch with us

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Utopian.io wants to help move Open Source projects forward and we would like to invite Project Owners to visit join.utopian.io/owners and get in touch with us. We will give them a demo on how the platform works, how they can utilize task requests and how they can get the most out of Utopian.io.

Request for a Demo!

Advising all contributors to get in touch with us about project owners they want to see join Utopian.io

We have put marketing structures in place for the easy onboarding of project owners to Utopian.io. If any contributors have project owners they would like to see join Utopian.io, we ask them to open a support ticket with us and we will help create an account for the project owners and give them information on how to get started on the platform.

Let’s make the Open Source economy a reality, together as a community.

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London CryptoCurrency Show. We Were There! Look What We Did..

The Utopian.io team was at the London Cryptocurrency Show held on the 14th of April, 2018. We joined many other Steem projects to promote the Steem blockchain and all it has to offer.

Days leading up to the event

We arrived in London on the 12th and spent the day talking and getting to know each other. The team consisted of our CEO @elear, our CMO @techslut and our Lead Developer @wehmoen.

our CEO @elear and Lead Developer @wehmoen in London

The next day was spent discussing Utopian.io matters and how to improve the platform. We also took some time to go around London seeing places.

The main event

The show was held on Saturday, 14th of April and from 9AM speakers talked about the Steem blockchain and pitched many amazing Steem projects to the audience. @wehmoen recorded the presentations and you can find the video here.

After the presentations, people visited stands for the various cryptocurrency projects represented at the show. Steem had a beautiful stand showcasing all the wonderful projects we have.

a picture of the #promo-steem stand

We Offered Free/Immediate STEEM Accounts

A lot of people were interested in Utopian.io. We collected contact details of more than 20 investors willing to get a Steem account from us.

We discussed Utopian.io and the Steem blockchain in every possible detail. Overall, the event was a great success!

Utopian Biz Cards

We have been given away dozens of business cards, almost 100. We got in touch with project owners, investors, developers, content creators, willing to understand the amazing functionalities of our platform and how they will be able to benefit from it.

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New Collaborations On The Horizon!

We met so many amazing Steemians over there and new interesting collaborations just started right away.

@Roxane

We have invited @Roxane to meet us at the event. @Roxane is probably the most active Steemian in the French community. She is just great. She has wonderful social skills and experience in on-boarding new users to the platform. That’s the reason why we proposed to @roxane to become one of our core members!

@Roxane will take care of on-boarding new project owners in Utopian.io by fully managing the process, from the lead acquisition, guidance and on-going support.

@Promo-Steem

We have been discussing with @Starkerz how our projects could collaborate and came up with some exciting ideas. Utopian.io is willing to offer to @Promo-Steem the possibility to create accounts right away through us.

The Guys From @Promo-Steem

We can’t thank enough these guys for how helpful they are and for how well they have organised the entire event. Their work was just amazing!

We do really want to support @promo-steem and that’s the reason why @anarcotech just got one of the very rare Utopian 100% upvote on this informative post about the London Crypto Currency Show.

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You Ask. We Deliver. New Reputation System. New Decentralised Scoring System and Much More!

As part of the recently announced changes, today we are delivering a lot of enhancements to Utopian.io; even more than we promised.

A New Reputation System

While we were trying to fix how scoring and voting contributions works in Utopian.io, we realised that the default Steem reputation system does not work well for our purpose. That’s why we decided to create a custom Utopian.io reputation system.

Made with Utopian in mind

The new reputation system in Utopian.io takes into account a user’s number of rejected and accepted contributions, in which categories the user has contributed, in addition to the score each contribution has received. This is the perfect fit for Utopian.io because it allows us to measure how well a user is contributing to the Open Source ecosystem, and then translate that into a simple reputation badge.

Reputation is dynamic

All reputation values are calculated against the user who has the topmost total score, overall on the platform. As the top score changes, the reputation values also change. Such an approach makes the reputation implicitly dynamic, meaning that: to keep your reputation badge at the same level, you must keep contributing valuably.

Reputation badges

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  • Newbie
  • Beginner
  • Advanced
  • Expert
  • Pro
  • Ninja
  • Guru
  • Hero
  • Legend
  • Elite

Reputation and influence

Each reputation badge comes with a level of influence. The only reputation badge which does not have any influence is Newbie (to prevent new users with the wrong intentions from gaming the system).

The influence affects how a user scores a contribution. The bigger the influence, the more weight and validity the user’s scores have when determining the final score of contributions.

Reputation badges assigned by default

  • Moderators start with the Reputation Badge Guru. This is to ensure that they have enough influence when scoring contributions.
  • Community Managers get the Reputation Badge Elite by default. This is to ensure that their influence can help maintain the quality of contributions overall on the platform.
  • Specific members who are highly trusted in Utopian.io can get an Honorary Reputation. @scipio @jedigeiss @littleboy and @transisto all received the Elite reputation badge.

Power to Project Owners

When a project owner scores a contribution received for his own project, independently from the current reputation badge he has, the system will always calculate the influence as a minimum starting from the Guru reputation badge. This is to ensure project owners have enough influence when scoring contributions for their own projects, as much as moderators.

Delegate for more influence

In order to find new ways other than liquid rewards to incentivise delegation, we now allow users to earn a higher reputation by delegating to Utopian, which gives them more influence and ultimately gives them power to decide on the distribution of rewards.

  • Beginner: delegate at least 100 SP
  • Advanced: delegate at least 1000 SP
  • Expert: delegate at least 5000 SP
  • Pro: delegate at least 10000 SP
  • Ninja: delegate at least 15000 SP
  • Guru: delegate at least 20000 SP
  • Hero: delegate at least 25000 SP
  • Legend: delegate at least 50000 SP
  • Elite: delegate at least 100000 SP

Decentralised Scoring System

As recently announced, we strived hard to find a solution to decentralise the scoring of contributions and give the community the power to decide what’s good or bad, and how the Utopian.io voting power should be used.

While we wanted to give only Moderators and Project Owners the responsibility of scoring a contribution, we have realised our new reputation system can allow us to go way further than that.

That’s the reason why every user can now score a contribution (which was not submitted by himself).

Each user can now answer the questions from the Quality Questionnaire, which before was only possible for Moderators.

Influence calculation

Since every user has a reputation badge and every badge comes with an influence, that influence is used to define which answers from the Quality Questionnaire received the best ratings.

Each answer gives the contribution a certain score, which is then finally used by the Utopian Bot to decide the voting weight.

New Utopian bot

Soon, the Utopian Bot will take into consideration the following criteria, to decide the voting weight:

  • Score: the score assigned by the most rated answers from the Quality Questionnaire.
  • Total influence: the summation of the influence held by all users who have scored the contribution.

The Utopian Bot will vote starting with contributions that have the largest total influence, the best score and which were marked as reviewed by a Moderator (or which scored higher than 80).

Since the Utopian Bot can only use a maximum of 20% voting power daily, not every contribution may get a vote, making the Utopian Bot vote never guaranteed and only an incentive for top quality contributions.

The new Utopian Bot should be released as soon as next week.

Projects Whitelist

Soon, Utopian.io may only list projects that have opted-in to our ecosystem.

In order to get your project in Utopian.io and to have our full support, project owners now have a dedicated landing page.

Dedicated Page for Investors

As we want to onboard more project owners on Utopian.io, we also aim to bring more investors into the Steem ecosystem.

That’s why there is now a dedicated landing page where investors can get in touch with us to get more information!

Beneficiaries From 25% to 15%

As promised, the amount set aside for beneficiaries from contributions made on Utopian.io has been decreased from 25% to only 15% cross-platform.

Changes to moderation teams

In the last few days, a new moderation setup was implemented and Community Managers have begun working. They took up the responsibilities of Supervisors along with other duties, and were tasked with picking a maximum of 3 moderators each for their respective categories.

During this transition, some moderators were not assigned to any category and have been disabled from moderation as a result. We would like to thank them for their hard work and support, and apologize for any inconveniences caused. We would like to assure them that we will consider re-enabling their roles in the future, as the need arises.

We hope to see all of them discussing and enjoying the community on Discord.

Moderation Functionalities

As part of our effort to improve moderation processes, we have added some enhanced functionalities.

Better moderation controls

Moderation controls look nicer and easier to access, while providing more functionality than ever before.

Reserve a contribution

To avoid instances of moderators working on the same contribution at the same time, moderators can now reserve a contribution for one hour while working on it. No other moderators will be able to reserve the contribution during this time.

Staff picks

Staff Picks are contributions which our Community Managers believe are of outstanding quality. Staff Picks will get higher exposure and higher rewards on Utopian.io.

API Usage Limit

Our servers are currently overloaded by what we identified as bots. These bots have full access to our API without any kind of limitation.

We have just impemented an API proxy which controls the limits of requests.

In order to get an API key for your platform or bot, please send us a ticket.

What’s Next

  • New Utopian Bot
  • Switching From Rules to Guidelines
  • Enhancements to the Projects and Feeds Interfaces

Stay tuned!

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Come Meet Utopian at the London Crypto Currency Show (April 14th)!

While we are hard at work implementing all the latest updates to Utopian.io, we are also preparing to present Utopian at London Crypto Currency Show alongside @promo-steem. We’ll be happy to see you there!

Join us at the London Crypto Currency Show to learn more about the heart Utopian.io, and help bring show the investors attending the advantages and accomplishments of the STEEM ecosystem.

The event is scheduled to take place on the 14th of April at Novetel London West, and if you’re a Steemian, you get a free ticket!

The team at Utopian.io would like to take this opportunity to thank the @promo-steem initiative and all its members for creating, managing and exposing such a great opportunity for Utopian.io and the whole STEEM ecosystem. Joining us by @promo-steem invitation are a number of other STEEM-based projects including @steempress-io, eSteem and STACH.

We can’t wait to meet you there! Join us on 14th of April at the London Crypto Currency Show!

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Utopian.io Reborn - Smarter, Simpler, Better

As the community grows and changes, we must adjust to keep up and continuously improve. Today, we would like to announce some major changes to moderation processes and assignments, as well as some modifications to the Discord server channel list, member roles and voting distribution.

Changes to moderation processes on Discord and assignments discussed in this announcement will come into effect as of April 5th.

Platform related features and enhancements will be live by 14th April or earlier.

Continuous Improvement

The organizational changes in this announcement are another step toward a more effective Utopian.io, allowing us to distribute higher rewards to users making valuable contributions to innovative Open Source projects. It is our hope that these changes will lead to more a manageable and scalable moderation process.

Welcome The Community Managers!

As we reach outward beyond the Steem community, the Supervisor role in Utopian.io will be replaced with a new role: The Community Manager.

Specifically selected for this role, based on proven expertise and in their respective fields and dedication to Utopian.io, the Community Managers will take over all Supervisor duties, and receive a few additional tasks and responsibilities.

To ensure no category is neglected, every Community Manager will only manage one single contribution category, and the task request category related to it.

Initially, the role of Community Manager will be assigned to the following users:

@eastmael: Analysis - Tasks Data Analysts @jestemkioskem : Bug Hunting - Tasks Bug Hunters @sachincool: Bug Hunting - Tasks Bug Hunters @deathwing: Tutorials - Tasks Tutorials (New) @mcfarhat: Tutorials - Tasks Tutorials (New) @andrejcibik: Graphics - Tasks Graphics @techslut: Visibility - Tasks Influencers @amobastian: Development - Tasks Development @helo: Development - Tasks Development (nominated, waiting for next onboard) @espoem: Blog - Tasks Copywriting @buckydurddle: Video Tutorials - Tasks Video Tutorials (New) @knowledges: Suggestions - Tasks Thinkers @favcau: Suggestions - Tasks Thinkers @ms10398: Documentation - Tasks Tech Writers @imwatsi: Copywriting - Tasks Copywriting (New)

When the need arises, we may seek out additional members of the community to add to this elite team of professionals.

Current holders of the Supervisor role (who do not appear in the above list) if selected, will be assigned the role of moderators to join the categories managed by the Community Managers (according to their specialization).

Community Manager Responsibilities

In addition to managing the activities of moderators and the contribution review processes, the community managers will be entrusted with engaging the Open Source community on various channels as well as collaboration on the shaping of the future of Utopian.io.

Engaging the Community

  • Chatting with users and replying to messages on public Utopian.io Discord channels.

  • Providing technical support and replying to help inquiries in the Discord #help channel and the specific #help channel for the category assign (i.e. #review-development).

  • Participating in online discussions and replying to comments on Utopian.io communications and mentions of the brand on social media.

  • Onboarding project owners, including offering online technical support and one-on-one calls.

Corporate Collaboration

  • Participating in the ongoing optimization of Utopian rules and other documents and materials required for community management and onboarding of new users and project owners.

    • Participating in weekly management (previously supervisors-weekly) and moderator biweekly conference calls on Discord.

    • Joining spontaneous voice conferences on the community-talk voice and utopian-moderators voice channels on Discord.

    • Finding and working to eliminate plagiarism/abuse on the platform.

Moderator Onboarding and Team Management

  • Overseeing the review and moderation of contributions in the category assigned to them.

  • Managing the group of moderators in the category assigned to them:

    • Referring moderator role applicants to take the Moderation Quiz.

    • Verifying applicants’ relevant experience and proficiency in the English language.

    • Communicating relevant information and updates to category moderators.

    • Managing moderator role assignment across platform tools (Discord, Utopian moderator records).

Revamped Team Structure

As community managers will be managing the moderation activity in a specific category rather than a team of moderators from different categories, there will no longer be need for team-based Discord channels. These (such as #espoem-team etc) will be deleted.

Every Community Manager will only hold responsibility for a single duo of categories (tasks and related contributions) and is therefore the focal point in managing that category duo only and in working with all the Moderators reviewing contributions on that category.

As the workload grows additional Community Managers will be assigned to the active categories where additional manpower is needed. However, a Community Manager will never manage more than one duo of contribution categories.

Moderator Category Assignment

Moderators may choose to review submissions to up to 3 categories. To be nominated for the role of a moderator, applicants must be selected by Community Managers and successfully complete the moderation quiz.

Community Managers will pick moderators for their categories from the current team of moderators, and assign them with roles in the category review team. Moderators who have not been assigned by a Community Manager to any category role by April 14th will be removed from the moderator team as inactive.

Contribution Rejection and Rules

Based on the above mentioned changes, rules will finally become guidelines. Contributions that follow the guidelines will have more exposure in Utopian, while contributions which don’t will always have less visibility.

Immediate rejection will only be applied to contributions that clearly ignore the most fundamental guidelines or have been submitted for pure monetary gain.

The majority of rules listed on our website will remain unchanged, but will now be considered submission guidelines.

Simplifying Discord Roles & Channel Structure

To avoid confusion, we’ll be consolidating Discord user tags and roles.

A new role to be added is the role of Community Manages whose role administrating on Discord will include role assignment and onboarding of moderators on the platform.

Removed Discord Roles

Deemed unnecessary, the following roles will be removed: Admin, Lead Develop, Collaborator and Discord Manager.

Other roles removed or updated:

  • Advisors - Engagement with this group of users is moved to a designated channel on the organizational Slack. We believe such a significant role should have a more direct impact on business related matters, which Slack is the most appropriate place.

  • Sponsors - Reserved for investors delegating of over 10K SP.

Category-specific roles will remain unchanged, but will be renamed according to category - i.e. translation-mods will become just translation.

Removed Discord Channels

Just as redundant are some channels that will be removed:

  • review-subprojects and #review-discussions. Discussions will take place in category-specific review channels (#review-[category]).

  • Public Poll category - Community polling will take place only during life conferences.

  • utopian-video

  • Discord Managers channel branch

  • All team related channels (such as #espoem-team, podanjr-team, etc.)

WOW! We Are OVER 5000!

Our Discord server reached and passed the 5K users mark. Thank you all for being part of this community - you make Utopian what it is!

Ticketing System

While we aim to keep in touch with all the members of the community via Discord, Utopian is looking to switch to a more manageble and scalable customer support solution.

A ticketing system is in place and will be soon be available for public use.

Community Managers will be charged with replying to inquiries related to their assigned category, while general inquiries will be handled internally by the Utopian team.

Rewarding Spontaneous and On-Demand Contributions

Aiming to reduce abuse and increase rewards to valuable contributions, we have gathered all the possible input from all the various parties involved in Utopian.io, including project owners, moderators, contributors, legal consultants and core Utopian members.

It is evident that a change in how spontaneous contributions are executed, submitted and rewarded is necessary.

Spontaneous Contributions

Contributors may continue submitting their contributions to the following categories without having to link any task request:

  • Development
  • Documentation
  • Suggestion
  • Bug Hunting
  • Analysis
  • Tutorials
  • Video Tutorials
  • Blog

While linking the submission to task request is not mandatory, it is still encouraged.

It is important to note that while spontaneous contributions will be accepted and rewarded, attempts at abuse will not be tolerated and abusers will be banned permanently from submitting content to Utopian.io.

On-Demand Contributions

To reduce abuse and cater to the needs of project owners on Utopian.io, some categories will now access contributions that are linked to a Task Request.

  • Graphics - Project owners’ assets, that are often copyrighted, cannot be published or used without explicit permission from the owner of the assets. To preserve contributors from legal issues, this category is now on-demand only.
  • Translations - Following massive abuse of this category, all translations must now be on-demand only.
  • Visibility - As per regulations is numerous countries, no promotion should ever happen without the project owner request. This category therefore must be on-demand only.
  • Copywriting - Copywriting work is usually performed when requested by the project owner. Thus, it only makes sense it too would demand a Task Request

Contributions submitted for a task request will be shown in the task itself. A convenient system to select a task request is being implemented. Contributors may find the latest task requests on the Utopian Tasks Requests section or on projects-specific feeds.

Contributors looking to submit to projects that do not have a relevant task request attached, may NOT contact Project Owners on behalf of Utopian.io without receiving the approval, necessary materials (when applicable) and guidance from the Community Manager of the relevant category.

Feed Changes and Review Process

The content feeds across all of Utopian.io will change significantly.

All the feeds (including home feed, projects related feed, user profiles feed) will show contributions based on the following criteria:

  • One week default selection. Contributions submitted in the last week will be shown by default. Users will have the ability to change the selection.

  • On top of every feed, top scored contributions will be shown. Score is assigned by the Utopian Moderators (via the Quality Questionnaire) and/or by project owners when reviewing a contribution. Users can decide to sort contributions by score ASC or DESC, while DESC is by default.

  • Just after top scored contributions feeds will show lower scored contributions and at the very bottom unreviewed contributions.

  • Users will also be able to filter contributions by their statuses (any, unreviewed, reviewed, rejected, pending).

Such changes will assure top quality contributions will always be shown first, while enabling users to better interact with the content on the platform.

Unreviewed contributions will show up in the feed and may be upvoted based on criteria explained later in this announcement. This is to eliminate long waiting periods in the review process.

Github Issues

While we aim to remove completely the concept of “unreviewed” contributions as a metric to enter the Utopian feed, contributions will only be pushed to project Github issues once scored by a Moderator.

From Moderation to Curation

Since unreviewed contributions will show up in the feed, the work of a moderator is being switched from moderation to curation.

The sole responsibility of moderators will be to effectively score contributions by filling out the category-specific moderation score-card. The direct influence of moderator review on the selection of contribution on the value of the reward received will be greatly reduced, as per criteria later explained in this announcement.

Scoring a Contribution

Adding a score to a contribution can be done by either a moderator and project owner. Scoring is not mandatory, thus not every contribution may get a score. All contributions are immediately rewardable by the community as they enter the feeds immediately without moderators having to accept.

The score is used internally by the system to filter contributions in order to have a cleaner database of contents, for the benefit of contributors, project owners and curators.

It is true that contributions which have no score won’t ever get an Utopian upvote thus remarking the fact the Utopian upvote is never guaranteed.

Moderation Rewards

With the moderation process simplified and moderator responsibilities are clearer and more streamlined, Utopian.io is also looking to adjust the moderator reward model to incentivize curation.

The previous model (as per the @utopian.stats account) will remain only for Community Managers while for Moderators there will be switched to the @utopian.tip model.

Comments added by Moderators after, having scored and curated a contribution, will trigger a tip to be awarded to the moderator.

Tip funds will be generated from the main @utopian-io account, where 5% of the total 20% daily voting power will be dedicated to moderator rewards.

Rewards will be given until the dedicated voting power is exhausted on a daily basis.

Power to Project Owners

In Utopian.io we’ve always believed that project owners should have power to decide which contributions should be rewarded. That is where Utopian.io is heading. Project owners will now have nearly full control on what should be rewarded and how.

When viewing their Utopian feed, project owners, as explained above, will be able to filter and sort contributions for their projects, with the highest-scoring contributions according to the moderation score-card and a score project owner can set themselves.

Score entered by project owners will always have the biggest weight in calculating the voting power.

Task Requests

Project owners will be able to mark a contribution received for a task request as the “Solver”. Once a contribution has been set as the Solver, the task will be set as closed and no new contributions for it will be accepted. Marking a contribution as the Solver of a task is irreversible.

Project owners can also set a score, from 1 to 100, to mark the quality of the Solver contribution. This score will be used in the calculation of the voting weight, as per the criteria later explained in this announcement.

Spontaneous Contributions

Project owners can score and reward spontaneous contributions. This score will be used in the calculation of the voting weight as per the criteria later explained in this announcement.

Voting Power Distribution

The following change is possibly the most critical. Voting distribution is going to be changed completely based on the following criteria.

  • Up to 20% of voting power used daily

  • 30% of the 20% daily voting power dedicated to spontaneous contributions

  • 65% of the 20% daily voting power dedicated to task requests marked as winners by project owners

  • Task requests won’t be voted by Utopian, ever, but still votable by the community.

Remaining 5% is reserved for rewarding Moderators for their curated contributions as explained above.

Voting Weight

Max and minimum caps are set for each category. These caps may be changed as the STEEM price changes.

  • Suggestions. 1% min cap. 10% max cap.
  • Bug Hunting. 1% min cap. 15% max cap.
  • Analysis. 15% min cap. 25% max cap.
  • Tutorials. 15% min cap. 25 % max cap.
  • Video Tutorials. 15% min cap. 20% max cap.
  • Blog. 10% min cap. 20% max cap.
  • Development. 25% min cap. 50% max cap.
  • Graphics. 20% min cap. 40% max cap.
  • Translations. 20% min cap. 50% max cap.
  • Visibility. 15% min cap. 35% max cap.
  • Documentation. 15% min cap. 35% max cap.
  • Copywriting. 15% min cap. 35% max cap.

The 20% daily voting power will be used until exhausted, meaning that not every contribution will to be upvoted by Utopian.

The Utopian Bot will apply the following criteria, to decide what should be rewarded by Utopian itself and what not:

  • Contributions linked to task requests are always voted first in the queue. Spontaneous contributions follow.

  • Contributions with the highest rewards generated before the voting round, will be voted first in the queue. Inclusion in voting round happens after 24 hours of either moderation / owner scoring in order for the contribution to gather enough upvotes.

  • Contributions submitted for task requests will only be voted by Utopian if marked as “Solver” by the project owner.

  • In the case the project owner is accepting his own contribution as the Solver or contributions from any other owner, moderation score will have to be present in order to be selected for the voting round.

  • The balanced average between moderation score and owner score will be used to decide what to assign between the max and min cap dedicated to the category. If no owner score is present, moderation score only will only be taken in consideration. Either the moderation score or the owner score are necessary to enter the voting round.

  • Contributions which have same balanced score, will go first or after in the queue based on the total amount of rewards. The more rewards, the sooner the vote.

A contribution may never enter the voting round if one of the above criteria isn’t met or the daily voting power is exhausted before the contribution can enter the voting round within the max 1 week window.

Staff Picks

Community Managers will have a new Discord channel named #staff-picks. They may pick contributions which they believe are of the highest quality. These contributions could be manually voted by Utopian with special voting weights.

Staff picks will be promoted in a dedicated section on the Utopian homepage for maximum exposure.

Utopian Upvote as Incentive Not an Income

While the Utopian upvote has always been considered as an incentive for contributing to Open Source projects, we have discovered many contributors and moderators have started claiming their rewards as if they were guaranteed income.

This is not the case and will never be the case.

Getting an upvote or incentive of any kind from Utopian, from now on must be generally perceived as a gift or award only.

Being rewarded by Utopian is never guaranteed and only top scored contributions and best curated contents may enter the voting round.

We believe community should rely on community members and their stakes, and not only on the voting power held by Utopian. This change in mindset is also necessary to incentivise members to grow their own stake on the Steem blockchain, to seek out exposure, learn, improve and network to get higher rewards from the Open Source community on the Steem blockchain.

Community support and engagement is now also a fundamental parameter in entering the reward distribution voting rounds on Utopian, since voting starts from the highest scored and the most community beneficial contributions.

Beneficiaries From 25% to 15%

To better incentive contributors, the fee deducted from the contribution payout by Utopian.io will be lowered from 25% to only 15%.

The beneficiaries division will be changed all cross the Utopian platform including posts and comments, therefore affecting the rewards distributed to contributors, moderators and Community Managers.

Sponsors Rewards

Due to the decrease in platform beneficiaries fees, Sponsor Rewards will also undergo some fundamental changes.

  • As of now, only the first 4 Sponsors (now called Platinum Sponsors) will receive 10% beneficiary rewards weekly and according to the volume of their delegation. In addition, they will also receive random rewards according to remaining weekly funds.

  • The following 4 Sponsors (5 to 8 on the list), from now on named Gold Sponsors, will receive only random rewards based on available weekly funds.

  • All other sponsors may still receive random incentives based on the available weekly funds. These are not guaranteed.

Full Decentralization

All the above mentioned changes are the result of continuous feedback review and analysis we’re done in the past months. These changes are the first step to a full decentralization of Utopian reward distribution.

  • Contribution rewards have been unlinked from moderators and balanced between Moderators, Project Owners, Community Managers and the community.
  • A team of professional and dedicated team members will offer support and immediate feedback on all the official Utopian channels.
  • Moderation waiting times have been significantly reduced. A contribution that has been scored by moderator and project owner, will be included in the bot voting round queue within 24 hours.
  • Rewards are more predictable and depend on category, PO involvement and (of course) quality.
  • Better, more sustainable voting distribution should greatly reduce the rate of abuse of the system.
  • Quality is now incentivized by upvoting only contributions that receive top scores and are seen as truly beneficial to the community.
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Utopian Is Hiring! One React.js Developer and One Node.js Developer. Join The Revolution!

Utopian.io is looking to grow its team to fast-forward development of exciting new functionalities!

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What is Utopian?

Utopian.io is the first platform rewarding contributions to Open Source projects using a decentralised and meritocratic voting system, built on top of the STEEM blockchain.

Utopian.io affords the freedom for people to work on open-source projects, and get paid for new contributions.

React/Vue Developer

Utopian.io is looking for a React.js specialist on a full-time basis, fully remote.

Requirements

  • Minimum 2 years of professional experience in React.
  • Typescript.
  • Redux.
  • At least 6 months of experience in developing Vue applications.
  • Verifiable experience in working with HTTP protocols, RESTful APIs.
  • Perfect spoken and written English.

Utopian.io is looking to hire a professional React developer on a hourly-rate contract, full-time. You should be able to provide invoices for the paid work. Payments will be delivered every month. Working hours to be logged in toggl or similar system.

Benefits

  • Fully remote.
  • Flexible working schedule.
  • Crypto Incentives.

Starting Date

Immediately

Send your CV and hourly rate at dev@utopian.io.

Node Developer

Utopian.io is looking for a Node.js specialist on a full-time basis, fully remote.

Requirements

  • Minimum 3 years of professional experience in Node.js.
  • Verifiable experience in building RESTful APIs.
  • Typescript.
  • MongoDB.
  • Verifiable experience in working with Cloud environments, such as AWS or Azure.
  • Perfect spoken and written English.
  • Experience in DevOps is very welcome.

Utopian.io is looking to hire a professional Node developer on a hourly-rate contract, full-time. You should be able to provide invoices for the paid work. Payments will be delivered every month. Working hours to be logged in toggl or similar system.

Benefits

  • Fully remote.
  • Flexible working schedule.
  • Crypto Incentives.

Starting Date

Immediately

Send your CV and hourly rate at dev@utopian.io.


Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

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Top Sponsors


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@ned

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@cnts

@fenghuang

Top Moderators


@ruah

@espoem

@knowledges

@rosatravels

@andrejcibik

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@manishmike10

@jmromero

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@syedumair

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