Since the @utopian-io bot strikes every day with a whale upvote it has become incredibly profitable to curate Utopian contributions which have been accepted by the moderators and are still about to recieve their reward upvotes. Hence I have created the @utopian-1up trail to reward curators by simplifying the process and selecting high quality posts for the daily 1UP's. It has already 19 Utopians following it and makes a considerbale difference for the authors.
Democritization of 1UP
To make this process even more interesting I suggest to integrate a 1up button to Utopian.io posts. Here are the rules I came up with:
- Only previous contributers on Utopian can use 1UP's to minify gaming
- Each qualified Utopian has only one daily 1UP vote
- You cannot 1UP your own post
- The 1UP button is available from the moment of post creation
- If a a post is disapproved the 1UP's disappear and the votes return to the users
- As soon as the @utopian-io bot votes the button disappears from approved posts
- The current results are shown in a pop-up on the 1UP button
- A sub-page shows the full list of daily 1UP's and past days lists
When the @utopian-io bot reaches 100% the @utopian-1up bot (GitHub Repository) will automatically send upvotes to the highest posts BEFORE the main bot strikes and a new cycle starts. All previous 1UPs are still visible but no active an longer. Each post will have at least 12 hours to collect 1UP's because that is the minmum distance for the @utopian-io bot to upvote. Younger posts will not be upvote and have to wait to the next round.
Design Idea
The button could be integrated next to the upvote and comment button below each post like in the mock-up below:
When hovering over the 1UP icon a pop-up appears with an explanation:
When hovering over the 1UP amount a pop-up with the highest authors from the daily 1UP's list appears with the top X users. The author of the current post is placed either on the bottom (if low) or ranked accordingly between the others but ALWAYS visible even if not ranked high enough.
Next Step
We can build this for manual curation with the created daily list for starters on Utopian.io and then switch to automatic upvoting according to the collected 1UP's. For that we can fork an already existing bot that does frontrun the @utopian-io bot for accepted posts. Next we can integrate a 1up API to connect the 1up bot with Utopians 1up system.
Disclaimer: 1UP is in not affiliated or organized by the official Utopian.io project!
Posted on Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors