Introduction
1UP is an automated hivemind curation system for communities where all votes are equal. It funnels upvotes to the highest voted posts and creates high curation rewards for trailers. The platform will use its own Smart Media Token (SMT) which will be released together with the official start of the SMT protocol by Steemit.inc on March 24th 2019. Before then the application will already be fully functional and run via a bounty incentive program.
In this post we look closer at the community level system that enables them for 1UP-votes and introduce the 10 starting communities.
Repository
https://github.com/therealFlauwy/1UP
Post Body
To create a system that is able to direct high upvotes to a few collectively selected posts we have to create efficient hurdles for potential abuse and allow every movement to earn a place for themselves without being overrun by them either. Also, we need to start with a few communities who will lead the field and allow us to test the system and grow organically.
User Authority
The first hurdle for a 1-account-1-vote system is to stop the massive potential abuse through multiple account ownership. Instead of creating a inhouse solution we will use the API of the brand new @userauthority that acts like an alternative reputation system based on a more hivemind formula itself. It looks very promising and allows us to search for a balance point where the entry level is as low as possible and the abuse hurdle as high as necessary.
For further information please see https://steem-ua.com/
Community Levels
Everyone can create a new community based on tags or white/blacklists for users. A new community will start on level zero and can earn experience points (XP). Every fortnight the level zero community with the highest XP will level up and become a level one community.
Each community level brings one upvote per day from the 1UP-account. All upvotes are equally high and devided by the available daily voting power. (That means that upvote strength will shrink over time while adoption and support grows.) Also, each 1UP user will be able to give one 1UP to a post per day per level of the community.
The following graphic shows the economics for 1UP communities:
A level zero community will get no upvote from the 1UP account. However, users will be able to upvote there with one 1UP per day and create daily ranking lists. Trailing will work as well which allows all communities to benefit from 1UP functionalities right from the start.
A level one community will receive one upvote from 1UP for the highest voted post of the day. A level two community will receive two upvotes and so on until level ten with ten daily upvotes as a maximum for any community. To grow slowly over time 1UP will use a steep level system with the XP points. These numbers might be adjusted over time.
Here is the initial XP ladder for the 1UP community levels:
- Level 1: Highest Community Every Fortnight
- Level 2: 10,000 XP
- Level 3: 20,000 XP
- Level 4: 40,000 XP
- Level 5: 80,000 XP
- Level 6: 160,000 XP
- Level 7: 320,000 XP
- Level 8: 640,000 XP
- Level 9: 1,280,000 XP
- Level 10: 2,560,000 XP
Community Experience Points
The XP points are based on the value that community gets from the 1UP users in form of 1UPs given to them as well as the amount of posts created for them in the first place. The calculation for that looks like that:
((Amount of posts x 3) + (Amount of 1UPs given x 5)) : 2 = Experience Points or XP
This gives a steadily growing number that allows to reward each community at some point with a level up that is steep and difficult on purpose for the already mentioned slow and steady grow of the system.
The Ten Starting Communities
In order to upvote with the official 1UP account right from the start of the platform we will upgrade ten communities directly to level one. That way we will be able to give ten daily upvotes (one to each) and use our full daily available voting power.
These starting communities will be using the following tags:
The internal #1UP tag will allow the community to provide feedback and ideas, open source contributions like developments, designs and analysis speficially for 1UP as well as 1UP promotions and discusssions in order to gradually become a fully decentralized application.
For DTube, DLive, DSound Utopian-io and Fundition we will try to work with and incentivize the platforms themselves but by pulling in their tags 1UP also operates independently from them. We will establish a community on Discord for each of them that organizes itself and will hopefully be populated by the many already existing communities.
The tag #promo-steem is a huge community on Steemit that promotes Steem/Steemit to people all around the world. Supporting these efforts is in the greatest interest of 1UP which is entirely based on Steem functionalities. This makes particular sense as the Steem hardfork 20 next month will open the bottle neck of account creation and allow for faster user adoption.
The #indymedia is a new tag that will allow all these amazing independent journalists out there who are heavily censored and demonitized on centralized platforms like YouTube and Facebook to find a new audience and a chance for great rewards. They are already a thriving community here on Steem and grow quickly as the mainstream strikes against them.
The #anarchy tag is another popular community here on Steemit as this movement is even reflected in the Steem functionality itself to many degrees. As 1UP is growing out of ideas discussed at Anarchapulco it only fits to bring more value and attention to these ideas which are based on voluntaryism and non-aggression principle without rulers.
The final #esoteric tag includes topics outside of mainstream believes and deal with supernatural philosophies and ancient teachings like Alchemy, Astrology, Magic, Tarot, Kabbalah, Mythologies, UFO, Plant Medicine, Alternative Healing and so on. There is a huge movement on Steemit creating amazing content like that which will find more attention through 1UP.
Resources
Old Utopian-1UP Homepage (includes a test for the new community creation tool)
Series Backlinks
- Utopian-1UP: A Lucrative Steem Trail For Utopian Contributions
- Integration of 1UP Voting Button into Utopian.io
- The 1UP Idea: A Lucrative Hivemind Curation System
- The Winner Of The 1UP Illustration Contest: @kayrex!
- The 1UP Button & Ranking Page Explained
- What Is 1UP - And How Can It Improve The Voting System?
- The 1UP Report: Roadmap For Q2 2018 And Steemit Proposal
- The Future Of 1UP - Opening To Communities
- How The 1UP Curation System Creates Higher Curation Rewards
- How The 1UP Smart Media Token Economy Will Work And Be Profitable
Thank you for this update. 1UP is very intriguing to me, and I was happy to read about these plans for the future. It is, of course, great to know Utopian is part of those plans. It is certainly an interesting way to use the upcoming SMTs, and I look forward to seeing this vision come to fruition.
I do, however, have some comments regarding style, grammar, and proofreading. I will cite and examine a couple examples:
"To create a system that is able to direct high upvotes to a few collectively selected posts we have to create efficient hurdles for potential abuse and allow every movement to earn a place for themselves without being overrun by them either" is a very long sentence, unbroken by commas. It also has other issues. Here's what I would do with it: "To create a system that is able to direct high upvotes to a few, collectively selected posts, we have to create efficient hurdles for potential abuse." With a couple of commas and a period, this is a fine sentence. I would take the second half, and make it a separate sentence: "We must also allow every movement to earn a place for itself without being overrun by them." I added a bit at the start, and changed "themselves" to "itself." Once you specify "every movement," your talking in the singular, so you would use the singular "itself." "Them" is fine, because you are, after all, talking all the movements. "either" is redundant. I would also add that I am not sure "movement" is best word here, but you are free to choose your own nomenclature.
"Instead of creating a inhouse solution we will use the API of the brand new @userauthority that acts like an alternative reputation system based on a more hivemind formula itself." This sentence could also use the addition of commas. Commas are awesome. So: "Instead of creating an in-house solution, we will use..." works. Note that I replaced "a" with "an" before "in-house," because "in-house" starts with a vowel sound. I also replaced "inhouse" with "in-house," because that is the correct term. On to the rest of the sentence. If you want it to all be once sentence, that's okay - though I would split it - but it does need reworking. "the API of the brand new @userauthority, that acts like an alternative reputation system based on a hivemind formula." This is, as far as I understand the sentence, the intended statement. You used the word "more" without stating more than what. And the word "itself" seems redundant.
I often recommend Hemingway for help seeing some of style and grammar issues with a post. In this case, I would also recommend reading the post aloud. When you find yourself pausing in a sentence, or realize you should be pausing, it's probably a good place for a comma.
I look forward to seeing more contributions from you, and following 1UP progression.
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Thank you for your review, @didic!
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Wow, what an amazing review. Thank you for all the feedback. I will have a look at Hemingway. As a German I am used to many commas but in English not so much.
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Hi @flauwy! We are @steem-ua, a new Steem dApp, computing UserAuthority for all accounts on Steem. We are currently in test mode upvoting quality Utopian-io contributions! Nice work!
As an art curator this tool will allow me to reward properly some good artist, I can't wait to see this proyect working as it fits perfectly with my initial goals.
I'm using the bot of minnowsupport for this purpose now, but I think that this could be a way better formula to perform what i've been looking for.
Every information you're giving to us confirms me what I'been thinking of this initiative, it's way too interesting to be outside of this.
Thank you, I hope that 1UP will bring value to you.
exelent Flauwy !! what a great tool !! i really like the proyect !!
Yeah, you can build a surfing community for example. :)
I see you are really into this. You're not joking! You will bring this to live and I enjoy seeing your passion :) Not only that, it serves the community. I appreciate that :)