Recently my attention was pulled to a contribution made via @Utopian-io. I only knew the latter because I saw the Utopian.io URL.

What pulled my attention was the title which I found weird for an Utopian contribution, thus I clicked. True enough, upon reading the article, it was your average *I'm going to milk this popular category* ~~drivel~~ content spinner article of minor quality but yet just acceptable enough to exist content. 

Basically a cheap tutorial by your average low rate copywriter/online content producer.

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### <strong><em>Stooopid is st0000000pid</em></strong>

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Was it bad? No, it was formal and all in all the post was OK. Not mind-blowing but OK. Just about OK. 

It could work at About.com or Wisegeek. Sites written to milk both Google SERP popularity and/or social media following. Noise but not totally useless noise.

Utopian is a rewarding project, an [amazing one](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@steemobserver/why-potential-github-disruptor-utopian-io-the-biggest-thing-in-tech-is-since-github-and-the-steem-blockchain), and the team over at Utopian does make sure that only quality contributions are admitted.

Which is even more important now given today's [Utopian upvote bot update](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@elear/utopian-the-new-utopian-bot-is-out-now-everyone-gets-a-piece-of-the-cake).

Thus as I came at the end of the post I was more than happy to see an Utopian moderator had rejected it. As such the post wasn't shown on Utopian.io and also didn't get to benefit any extra popularity from the (still) rather meta Utopian community. 

Or any upvote by the bot.

While this doesn't remove the posts from the Steem blockchain, no extra popularity was benefitted.

## There's More to It.

When submitting ~~drivel~~ poor content, or generally unrelated content to Utopian, there's a double whammy effect at work.

![sebastian-pichler-25154.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbPSisUt7B1x5TSpA89jJb5Gv3m8EmuN39dSc8Dmv2Pk3/sebastian-pichler-25154.jpg)

Not only does the content creator not get to benefit from any Utopian community perks (upvotes and Utopian.io bot upvote), but the author is also hit with an additional _penalty_ and loses ~~15~~ 20-22% of their possible article rewards just for posting through the Utopian interface.

<strong>Edit:</strong> Utopian shares around 20-22% [with its sponsors and moderators](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@elear/utopian-now-pays-moderators-in-steem-power-profit-by-assuring-quality), who are added as _beneficiaries_. Not 15% as previously stated.

While most likely not envisaged by @elear to function as a penalty, I find this a bittersweet *bonus* for those who try to milk the platform, the Steem mechanism in general.

As they say in proper English... *me likey*.

Hopefully, when communities launch ~~soon~~ similar will be possible and community admins and moderators will have the same capabilities to hide content from popular channel/communities. 

Last we want is communities to be as crap a submission platforms as many a popular Crackbook group.