Utopian.io rewards Open Source contributors with Steem using a bot that is powered by almost 4 MILLION SP.

The responsibility in managing such a big amount of SP is huge and we are constantly improving the bot to avoid either giving too much or giving too little. The change we just made is a complete new bot written from scratch, having different mechanisms than the one we had so far, that were not working well 100% of the time.

The Bot Now Follows The Human Input

• The Utopian Bot now votes after at least 6 hours the post has been submitted and reviewed by a moderator, in order for the post to gain enough visibility and votes.
• The bot calculates the weights used by every single human vote and uses those averages to decide its own voting weight.

Removed Penalisation For Automated Votes

• The bot does not penalise any longer bots but exclude the votes of automated bots from the weight calculation, therefore nulling the amount of rewards received from those bots when calculating the voting weight.

The Bot Has Now A 35% Maximum Cap

• The bot never votes over 35% in a single vote. We will increase this cap once the quality of the posts in Utopian has reached the required status to get higher compensation.

The Bot Never Wastes More Than 20% VP

• The Bot calculates the total amount of contributions on each category that must be voted and assigns a weight pool to them. Based on the weight calculated and the pool, the final score will be generated.

We Want To Help Small Accounts

• The Bot increases a little bit the voting weight for:

Accounts with less than 500 followers
Your first contribution on the platform

We Want You To Contribute Often

• The bot gives a bit more the more you contribute with quality contributions.

The Bot is Open Source https://github.com/utopian-io/api.utopian.io/blob/master/utopian-bot.js

Avoiding The Flagging War At Any Cost

There is a flagging war around and Utopian is not interested in participating. We are doing our best to keep the rewards reasonable and trying to respect and grow the ecosystem in every single action we do. We will keep doing our best, we will keep moderating our platform and increasing its quality.

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A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

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A Special Thanks to The Moderators

@espoem
@jefpatat
@arie.steem
@ruah
@themanualbot
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@mooncryption
@cnts
@shreyasgune
@knowledges
@zeartul