my proposals are:
- Graphic contributions should be an improvement over the existing graphic if available.
- use of templates is prohibited, the contribution must be direct result of your own work.
- You need to provide a link or credit to all assets you have used in your contribution and make sure you have permission to use them for commercial use. including: images, videos, fonts, 3D models, etc...
- you should not copy or trace other peoples work and claim it as your own, breaking this rule can result in being banned from utopian.io
- users whom identify and report abuse will be rewarded, the reporting and rewarding will be in private to protect users.
- Only contributions with proof of acceptance from the project owners are accepted, be it as a merged request, comment, forum answer or other forms that can prove their work is accepted.
- users should obtain proof of acceptance before constructing their contribution report
- utopian only rewards "reports of contributions", the contributions should be presented directly to the project and then reported to utopian not the other way around
- multiple accounts are allowed if the categories they contribute to, do not overlap, for example if a user have a main account for development topic and one limited to video tutorials.
this rule allows the users to keep their separate blogs clean with the condition that they report their multiple accounts to be white listed
Not that I am against any of them, I just have opinions on these if you allow.
Can be easily manipulated by hiding a layer when taking screenshots. Not effective enough in my opinion.
This one have pros and cons, it will help utopian heard by the open source community. For me utopian should not go out with current design quality, if people really believe in their designs and the projects they contribute are starter/smaller projects, they already making issues or pull requests. Think all the rejected posts will be in GitHub pages with "Hey we're from Utopian, we are friendly" texts. :)
Other than that, if I have unlimited vote on biweekly, you got most of them.
about the first one: that's why utopian mods should have a trained eye and spot stolen work when presented, there's always someone who tries to cheat, I think one attempt and permanent ban should weed them out.
I agree that the second one should explained thoroughly, I don't think that users should mention utopian when they contribute to a project, they should contribute like anybody else, when they got positive result, they can think about reporting to utopian, the goal is relieving the utopian moderators from: having to check if a contribution is useful or not so they can focus on eliminating abuse.
Lol I have a maserati-ish tattoo, I thought I was being creative, I went to a tattoo shop (while I was drunk), drew a devil's fork & crown combined to a paper, damn I'm still wearing sleeves. :) Need to cover it up while I'm sober.
There are situations our sub-conscious works for us, but I get your point for sure. I saw some processes where things keep appearing from nowhere. With 5-10 minutes of search easily leads you to source.