A better, faster, smarter and scalable version of the Utopian Bot is here to ensure you get fairly rewarded on time!

Utopian.io is growing at an exponential rate, so it’s no wonder our voting bot is exhausted from all the work. It simply couldn’t handle rewarding all your awesome contributions, so in the past weeks it sometimes crashed, voted twice or simply failed to vote at all.

We would like to formally apologize for any error made by our bot, and encourage you to contact us on Discord if you think your post was accidentally missed.

Since it is our top priority to continue rewarding quality contributions to Open Source projects, we’ve handed our bot to @wehmoen who boosted and upgraded to do be better, faster and smarter.

Moderator Quality Slider

In addition to improved speed and the ability to handle many more contributions every day, the new bot considers the Quality Score assigned to each contribution by the moderators.

When evaluation a submission, moderators select quality values for every contribution using a Quality Slider. This score has impact on the reward distributed.

This score of the contribution is used to calculate the vote to be awarded by the bot.

The basic formula for calculating the vote weight is:

1

((max_vote - min_vote) * score + min_vote) * category_weight

Higher Rewards, Minimal Downtime

We hope that this development and improvement to the Utopian Bot will allow us to distribute higher reward to quality contributions with no delays or errors.

By continuing to grow, evolve and improve, Utopian.io is revolutionizing the Open Source economy with your help, one line of code at a time.

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.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

Top Sponsors

@freedom - Vote Witness	@misterdelegation
@ned	@thejohalfiles
@wackou - Vote Witness	@xeldal - Vote Witness
@roelandp - Vote Witness	@lafona-miner - Vote Witness
@cnts	@fenghuang

Top Moderators

@ruah	@espoem
@knowledges	@arie.steem
@elear	@mcfarhat
@rosatravels	@omeratagun
@manishmike10	@shreyasgune

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As Utopian.io grows and evolves, we must adjust policies and guidelines to maximize our collective contribution to the Open Source movement and community. Today, we are publishing an updated and highly detailed list of rules and guidelines for submitting contributions to Utopian.

It is crucial that you read the all the rules applicable to your specialization category before making a submission to Utopian.io

Notable Changes

In addition to extensive clarification of all existing rules and examples for approved contributions, we’ve also added some rules that have significant impact on the criteria for submission approval.

• Due to potential legal repercussions, accepted submissions to the Graphics, Visibility and Copywriting categories must include proof of project owner request for work done, either via Utopian task request (Influencer task request) or other verifiable form of approval and encouragement on behalf of the project owner.

• Submissions to the Visibility category must now include proof of engagement as per metric set in the rules. These metrics may change in future rule updates.

• Submissions of contributions to repositories that contain no code (like gitbooks, content repositories, etc.) will be rejected (in most cases).

• Utopian.io now demands tighter integration with github both for the submission and approval of contributions.

The Moderation Team & You

The role of the rules is to provide contributors with guidelines, but are in no way a replacement for common sense. To ensure that the contributions rewarded by Utopian.io are valuable and beneficial to the open source community, moderators and supervisors may reject submissions of contributions they deem as having little to no notable value.

Work in Progress

As we continue to work with CrowdIn on streamlining and optimizing the process of proofing translations for open source projects on the platform, the translations category remains closed for contributions.

Utopian.io is a work in progress, growing and evolving as more contributors (but also scammers) find their way to the platform. The new and updated rules should make it easier for valid contributions to get rewards and minimize abuse of the platform. However, these rules will be changed and adjusted in the future as Utopian.io continues to revolutionize the open source economy with your help.

We look forward to reading your thoughts and insights on the new rules published so we can continue improving them to empower the Open Source community worldwide.

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.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

Top Sponsors

@freedom - Vote Witness	@misterdelegation
@ned	@thejohalfiles
@wackou - Vote Witness	@xeldal - Vote Witness
@roelandp - Vote Witness	@lafona-miner - Vote Witness
@cnts	@fenghuang

Top Moderators

@ruah	@espoem
@knowledges	@arie.steem
@elear	@mcfarhat
@rosatravels	@omeratagun
@manishmike10	@shreyasgune

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As of today, Utopian.io will refrain from accepting contributions to the translation category and access to this category will be blocked on Utopian.io until further notice.

Due to the rampant abuse of the Translation category on Utopian, we’ve paused the submission of translation contributions to Utopian.io in the past. So far, even with multiple improvements and adjustments to Utopian contribution submission rules, we are still seeing too much abuse of the Utopian reward system and platform in this specific category.

With the damage these abusers are causing the Utopian brand and its community of genuine Open Source contributors, we have no choice but to completely refrain from accepting contributions to this category at this time and until a solution can be implemented.

We apologize for this, and hope to resume rewarding quality translation contributions within the next few weeks.

Work in Progress…

We have been working closely with the team at CrowdIn to reach a technical solution to provide us with the necessary tools to effectively moderate and reward quality translations on the platform.

It is our hope that once CrownIn integration is implemented on Utopian, we will see no abuse and a lot more rewards to quality translators helping internationalize valuable Open Source projects.

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The latest update to Utopian.io, released today, implements new functionalities for contributors and moderators, as well as fixes for known issues.

Updates in this announcement may take a while before being propagated and available for everyone.

Terms of Service, Privacy and Website Cookie Policy

In order to comply with European regulations, upon your next login you must accept the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to browse and use Utopian.io.

Utopian Wallet (from Busy.org)

With this update, you will no longer need to use steemit.com or busy.org to manage your Steem wallet. You can now safely perform basic transations and operations in your wallet directly through Utopian.io.

Since Utopian.io was originally forked from Busy.org, all we needed to do was just extract the amazing wallet from Busy.org and implemented it in Utopian.io.

Contibution Quality Scoring Questionnaire

To improve contribution approval processes and reward contributors fairly, we’ve implemented a contribution quality scoring questionnaire for Moderators to rate contributions reviewed by them. Using the questionnaire, Moderators can easily rate and score each contribution based on different criteria according to the category of the contribution.

Moderators may also award a manual addition of up to 20% of the total score calculation at their discretion. Supervisors may review a questionnaire already filled out by a moderator and make changes to the scores entered at their discretion.

In the near future, the questionnaire score will be implemented as a metric for calculating the voting weight of the Utopian bot.

Moderation Cross Editing

To solve the most common error in contribution submission, Moderators can now change the contribution category, repository and tags on behalf of the contributor.

FAQ

Utopian.io now offers a dedicated section for FAQs to answer the most common questions about Utopian.io and the STEEM blockchain.

The FAQs can now also be accessed non-registered users on the website directly from the Utopian Feed.

Profile Filters

Contributions displayed on a user profile can now be filtered based on their status. Contributions can be browsed by Reviewed, Rejected and Pending.

Moderator Profile Filters

Utopian user profiles designated as Moderator users will now show contributions reviewed by the moderator, and filter them by date and status.

Increased Moderation Rewards

As discussed and agreed jointly with the community, Moderation Rewards have been increased with a max cap of 150 SBD per week. Points for reviewing categories have also been updated as follows:

• Suggestions: 0.75
• Development: 2
• Translations: 1.25
• Graphics: 1
• Documentation: 0.75
• Copywriting: 0.75
• Tutorials: 1
• Analysis: 1.25
• Social: 1
• Blog: 0.75
• Video Tutorials: 1.25
• Bug Hunting: 1.00
• Tasks: 0.50

Other Changes

• Development category contributions can now only be submitted if the user account is synced with Github.
• Users will be notified on-screen when recirected to SteemConnect.
• Banned users will be shown an informative page detailing reason and duration of the ban.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that was showing the wrong synced Github account.
• Fixed a bug that was pushing to Github the same issue multiple times.
• Fixed a bug that was causing hundreds of unnecessary requests to start.

More bugs may be still be there to be spotted! Please help us discover them and publish your contributions on Utopian.io to get rewarded for your efforts.

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.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

@freedom - Vote Witness	@misterdelegation
@ned	@thejohalfiles
@wackou - Vote Witness	@xeldal - Vote Witness
@roelandp - Vote Witness	@lafona-miner - Vote Witness
@cnts	@fenghuang

@ruah	@espoem
@knowledges	@arie.steem
@elear	@mcfarhat
@rosatravels	@omeratagun
@manishmike10	@shreyasgune

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Utopian.io is expanding its network of partners with three major names already on the list.

BrowserStack.com

BrowserStack is a leading platform for cross browser compatibility testing of websites and web applications on real browsers. BrowserStack allows instant access to multiple desktop and mobile browsers, while supporting great Open Source initiatives.

To help the Utopian Moderators team in the review process of bugs and development contributions BrowserStack will provide the team with unlimited manual and automated testing for open source websites and mobile apps, including full platform access to Live, Automate, App Live and App Automate, for a total of 5 user licenses and parallels.

It is our hope that this will not only help moderators in their review process of bug-hunting and development contributions, but also lead to future cooperation and collaboration with BrowserStack.

CrowdIn.com

The team at Utopian.io has been hard at work in establishing a direct collaboration with Crowdin.com, undoubtly the best translation platform out there.

Utopian.io is looking to provide to Crowdin.com with a way to automate rewards for translation contributions on Open Source projects, and implement solutions to improve and simplify verification process.

We are proud to collaborate with such amazing project and hope to continue to work closely on internationalization of more open souce projects.

Disasterhack.org

We’ve also been in contact with Distaster Hack, an initiative empowering people by providing access to technology and the skills to utilize it.

Utopian.io will offer Distaster Hack support with periodical donations as per the Utopian Charity Program. In addition, we are exploring the opportunity to run a Hackathon to onboard to Utopian.io hundreds of developers looking to contribute to Open Source initiatives.

Upcoming Events: Token Fest & Steem Quebec at Shopify

On 15/16th of March Utopian.io will be presented during the Token Fest in San Francisco. We’ve been invited by Steemit inc. to speak about Utopian.io.

On 15th of March Utopian.io will also be presented at the Steem Quebec Meetup to be held in the Shopify offices. We would like to thank @helo for his efforts in organizing this presentation!

Are you ready to be part of the future in Open Source contribution rewards? Join us on 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.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

@freedom - Vote Witness	@misterdelegation
@ned	@wackou - Vote Witness
@xeldal - Vote Witness	@roelandp - Vote Witness
@lafona-miner - Vote Witness	@cnts
@fenghuang	@thecryptodrive - Vote Witness

@ruah	@espoem
@knowledges	@arie.steem
@elear	@mcfarhat
@rosatravels	@omeratagun
@manishmike10	@shreyasgune

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Changes to the rules announced in this update are effective immediately. Contributors interested in submitting new contributions to Utopian should review the new rules prior to contribution submission and must follow them.

CrowdIn - Language Proofreaders

In the previous update of the the Utopian Rules we announced only proofreading enabled contributors may submit contributions in Utopian. Upon reevaluation, we came to the conclusion that Language Specific Proofreading capabilities are sufficient.

Contacting project owners/managers to be included as a language proofreader in their project is highly discouraged if you have not worked on the project before and you have no verifiable experience as a translator for the specific project.

Requesting to be enabled as a language proofreader on a CrowdIn project and mentioning Utopian is forbidden and will lead to a permanent BAN from contributing on Utopian.

Note that this rule is temporary, and these permissions are mandatory only until a deeper integration between Utopian and CrowdIn is finalised. We are working closely with CrowdIn to automate and simplify quality verification in the very near future.

BlackList

Contributions to projects listed in the Utopian Repo Blacklist will be automatically rejected.

If you wish to add your project to the blacklist, please contact us at info@utopian.io.

Moderation Quiz

In order to apply as a Utopian Moderator you must complete the Moderation Quiz and score at least 38.

You can take the test as many times as you wish. Supervisors will review the responses and select the applicants that best fit their teams.

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.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

@freedom - Vote Witness	@misterdelegation
@ned	@wackou - Vote Witness
@xeldal - Vote Witness	@roelandp - Vote Witness
@lafona-miner - Vote Witness	@cnts
@fenghuang	@thecryptodrive - Vote Witness

@ruah	@espoem
@knowledges	@arie.steem
@elear	@mcfarhat
@rosatravels	@omeratagun
@manishmike10	@shreyasgune

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