As per the Utopian Public Poll 12/09/2017 find below the updated rules.

The following are updates/enhancements to existing rules. Please read all the rules here: https://utopian.io/rules

No Commercial/Copyrighted Materials

No commercial or copyrighted material should ever be used in a contribution. - Only Creative Commons for Images and Videos can be accepted. - You retain full responsibility if using copyrighted or commercial materials you are not allowed to use.

Check the Github Repository

• Contributions for un-official repositories will only be accepted if present in Utopian un-official repos whitelist
• Contributions on official repositories that are just mirrors are always accepted.
• Contributions on repositories that had no updates for longer than 1 year, will be rejected.

Contributions should be Informative and Narrative

Some categories do not have to bind to this rule: - Contributions on the Development category do not have to be narrative as long as the contributor gives enough details to evaluate the work done. - Contributions in the Bug-Hunting category do not have to be narrative as long as the contributors gives enough details to reproduce the bug.

Contributions should be in English

Contributions should be in plain English and fully understandable. The only accepted exceptions are: - Contributions under the Tutorials and Video Tutorials Category. - Open Source projects that are meant to be for specific languages only.

Never Submitted Before

• Same contributions by the same contributor will never be accepted in Utopian twice.
• Contents already shared on the Steem blockchain in general by the same user may still be rejected if submitted in Utopian.
• Contents already shared anywhere else by the same user may still be rejected if submitted in Utopian.
• Same contents already shared before in Utopian or anywhere else by different users may still be rejected if a moderator recognises plagiarism.

Suggestions Rules

• Suggestions may be only related to the technical aspects of the project not process or organisational issues.

Tutorials and Video Tutorials Rules

• Tutorials may only be about the technical aspects of the project or how-tos for the final users.
• Gameplay is not acceptable as a valid tutorial.

Video Tutorial Rules

• The video and audio recording should be in HD (480 the min).

Translations Rules

• Minimum 500 words per translation contribution.
• You could translate less than 500 words if the project itself has less than 500 words to be translated in total.
• Only translations on CrowdIn or Github are accepted. You should not translate the words and provide them in your Utopian post directly.
• Same translations from different authors will be accepted if the moderator can recognise the newest translation has better quality.
• Proof-reading is not acceptable in Utopian at the moment. This is temporary. Soon proof-reading will be accepted as a valid contribution.

Contributions should be Formal and Professional

A moderator may reject a contribution if it is not written in a formal and professional style. - The writing style should be formal not informal. - The writing style should be professional. - Quality of the images and videos should be high. Low res images and videos will be rejected. - A contribution with bad grammar may be rejected if the contents may be really hard to understand.

Bug Hunting Rules

A moderator may require to show a video or an animated GIF if the bug is hard to reproduce.

Analysis Rules

• You should include example scripts which generated the results for your analysis, if applicable, or any information on how the data was generated.

Graphics Rules

• If you are providing a logo, you should also provide the different logo variations in terms of sizes and colors and also compare the new logo with the previous one, when applicable.

Copywriting Rules

• Linking pull requests from Github is encouraged, but is not required if not applicable.
• Read the official Wikipedia explanation for what acceptable Copywriting work is.

Moderators

A moderator should always give at least one opportunity to fix/edit a post, and never reject and hide it on the first sight.

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