Hello everyone! I'm one of the Community Managers closely working with our team on these updates. If you have any questions, I'll be more than happy to answer them under this comment. You can also ask them on our Discord channel or via a ticket at support.utopian.io!
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Does the new reputation system take into account past contributions to the platform? For example if someone has made a bunch of contributions in the past, will they start as a higher reputation level or will everyone start at newbie?
And second is there a way to see how far away you are from hitting the next rank up?
The reputation system does take into account older contributions. If you visit a page of a previously active user, you should see their reputation is much higher than that of an user just starting on Utopian.
There's currently no way of tracking your progress towards the next rank, but once we are absolutely sure the ranks work as intended we will consider adding that so users are incentivized to level up.
On the project owners landing page it reads:
How does this work? Project owners get more power, more responsibilities and more work. Why would they follow up on Utopianen contributions if they get them without following up. What is the incentive for project owners to actually use utopian themselves?
I believe the STEEM revenue idea is still being developed to be launched relatively soon.
Some of the categories, like Translations, Suggestions, Visibility etc. require the project owner to create a task request in order to receive contributions to their project. This was a necessary change due to spam complaints that we've been receiving in the past. If they don't come to us and use Utopian, they will not receive contributions to their project. This is the main reason why they are incentivized to come to us and use the task request functionality.
Hi @jestemkioskiem.
Will the contributions be made visible on the utopian.io platform feeds (All / Suggestions / Development / Analysis etc) prior to a moderator scoring them? Currently, I can see and score any contribution (even prior to any moderator) if I visit someone's profile directly but in order to do this I must know that they have made a contribution. Is this planned to change?
Hello!
This is definitely planned to happen very soon. Our plan is to allow users to easily browse Utopian and curate the best content.