Utopian Rules Update #11: Critical Update to Utopian Rules
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.
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I think, the moderators need to be first get accustomed to these changes. Last time I submitted an entry it was rejected saying it did not follow rules, and I had to question putting the rules, after which it was approved.
The general rule is that contributions must, first and foremost, contribute obvious VALUE to an Open Source project. That is a very broad definition, so we added the rules and guidelines to help stir contributors in the right direction and make it easier for moderators to recognize when value exists and when it does not.
We are working hard to ensure our moderation team approves only the contributions worthy or rewards, and has all the tools and instructions to execute the Utopian vision of rewarding quality contributions to Open Source projects.
every day utopian grows more and more. the update of the rules seems excellent to me. although I believe that you are every time they are limiting more the new taxpayers and even to the already existing ones. keep on working to improve the page, but always have in mind the community that gives them its support, greetings.
Thanks for your feedback, even though I could not actually understand what you meant by "new taxpayers"?
greetings, i mean new people with talent who want to contribute in utopian, talking about graphic category.
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I think this is a really good update! Even if the platform will lose some users, those users will be mostly scammers, and if somebody is really good at something and really want to contribute to a project in whatever category, they can still do it.
As long as money rule this world, there will always be scammers, this update will keep away some of them, but not all of them, they always find a way.
Keep it up @utopian-io, I'm waiting for the translation category to come back!
very interesting project is it linked with steemit accounts?
Just one correction -- Freedom is a disabled mining rig, not an active witness. There is no point voting for it.
proof of engagement as per metric set in the rules
Will someone elavorate this? I am not clear what it meant to say.
There is elaboration in the rules on the the utopian website. Basically, you need to show engagement percentages, not only views.
translations will never reach a quality of excellence until there are moderators who completely master the translated language and are good translators ... each language must have a proofreader / moderator trained in that same language, to do its review.
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.
This is for visibility category I guess. I am not clear about what it means to contributors.
I recommend you read the rules in full - the engagement metrics are there. Any marketer knows views only mean something in video ads. So we now request proof of engagement on campaigns to ensure they are effective and not randomly executed by amateurs unfamiliar with online advertising strategies.
My understanding is that you would have to use analytics tools to show the exact impact of your visibility efforts. Most social media channels have their own analytics tools and digital marketers use these as a proof of success for the campaigns. I wonder if someone has developed a steemit.tool to get that data?
@creativista ok thanks
I really appreciate that you are still working on the optimizing and streamlining the process of proofing translations. Cannot wait to work as a translator/proofreader on utopian.io again. Keep up your great work! You have all my support.
Good work utopian.io!
The more valuable your contributions are on utopian, the more valuable the utopian platform will be as it continues to grow.
What is @utopian-io all about? Still I voted for it. :)
What is Utopian-io and How to contribute?
a little bit old but you will get the idea.
Thank you. Done reading on it. :)