A better, faster, smarter and scalable version of the **Utopian Bot** is here to ensure you get fairly rewarded on time!

![utopian-post-banner.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSWFRyxSevMVna2V4TRYG5KqLYJ3pMrtDMeCsxyhXqb1d/utopian-post-banner.png)

<a href="join.utopian.io">Utopian.io</a> is growing at an exponential rate, so it's no wonder our voting bot is exhausted from all the work. It simply couldn't handle rewarding all your awesome contributions, so in the past weeks it sometimes crashed, voted twice or simply failed to vote at all.

We would like to formally apologize for any error made by our bot, and encourage you to contact us on <a href="https://discord.gg/h52nFrV">Discord</a> if you think your post was accidentally missed.

Since it is our top priority to continue rewarding quality contributions to Open Source projects, we've handed our bot to @wehmoen who boosted and upgraded to do be better, faster and smarter.

## Moderator Quality Slider
In addition to improved speed and the ability to handle many more contributions every day, the new bot considers the Quality Score assigned to each contribution by the moderators.

When evaluation a submission, moderators select quality values for every contribution using a Quality Slider. This score has impact on the reward distributed.

![U5duAuXpWpGvTpv5bPQTGUtHshaiNPH_1680x8400.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcYDcGf9jgQ8HKqAQ6Lcbvm3EBVR5F9g2rxNYpCuijvkZ/U5duAuXpWpGvTpv5bPQTGUtHshaiNPH_1680x8400.png)

This score of the contribution is used to calculate the vote to be awarded by the bot.

The basic formula for calculating the vote weight is:

```
((max_vote - min_vote) * score + min_vote) * category_weight
```

## Higher Rewards, Minimal Downtime

We hope that this development and improvement to the **Utopian Bot** will allow us to distribute higher reward to quality contributions with no delays or errors. 

By continuing to grow, evolve and improve, <a href="join.utopian.io">Utopian.io</a> is revolutionizing the Open Source economy with your help, one line of code at a time.


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<h1>Utopian Community-Driven Witness</h1> 

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

<a href="https://utopian.io" target="\_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Utopian.io</a> is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public <a href="https://discord.gg/2rSx9Eu" target="\_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Discord server</a> and soon via a <strong>public voting system</strong>. 

<ul> 
<li>Go here <a href="https://steemit.com/~witnesses" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Steem Witnesses</a></li> 
<li>Scroll to the bottom</li> <li>Write <strong>utopian-io</strong> and vote or set <strong>utopian-io</strong> as a proxy</li> 
<li><a href="https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=utopian-io&amp;approve=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness</a></li> 
<li><a href="https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-proxy?proxy=utopian-io&amp;approve=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness</a></li> </ul> 

<a href="https://steemit.com/~witnesses" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmYPUuQRptAqNBCQRwQjKWAqWU3zJkL3RXVUtEKVury8up/mooncryption-s-utopian-io-witness-gif.gif" alt="mooncryption-utopian-witness-gif"></a>

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<center><h2>Top Sponsors</h2>
<table><tr></tr><tr><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/freedom/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@freedom">@freedom</a> - <a target="_blank" href="//v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=freedom&approve=1">Vote Witness</a></center></td><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/misterdelegation/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@misterdelegation">@misterdelegation</a></center></td></tr><tr><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/ned/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@ned">@ned</a></center></td><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/thejohalfiles/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@thejohalfiles">@thejohalfiles</a></center></td></tr><tr><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/wackou/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@wackou">@wackou</a> - <a target="_blank" href="//v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=wackou&approve=1">Vote Witness</a></center></td><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/xeldal/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@xeldal">@xeldal</a> - <a target="_blank" href="//v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=xeldal&approve=1">Vote Witness</a></center></td></tr><tr><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/roelandp/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@roelandp">@roelandp</a> - <a target="_blank" href="//v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=roelandp&approve=1">Vote Witness</a></center></td><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/lafona-miner/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@lafona-miner">@lafona-miner</a> - <a target="_blank" href="//v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=lafona-miner&approve=1">Vote Witness</a></center></td></tr><tr><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/cnts/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@cnts">@cnts</a></center></td><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/fenghuang/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@fenghuang">@fenghuang</a></center></td></tr></table>
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<center><h2>Top Moderators</h2>
<table><tr></tr><tr><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/ruah/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@ruah">@ruah</a></center></td><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/espoem/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@espoem">@espoem</a></center></td></tr><tr><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/knowledges/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@knowledges">@knowledges</a></center></td><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/arie.steem/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@arie.steem">@arie.steem</a></center></td></tr><tr><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/elear/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@elear">@elear</a></center></td><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/mcfarhat/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@mcfarhat">@mcfarhat</a></center></td></tr><tr><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/rosatravels/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@rosatravels">@rosatravels</a></center></td><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/omeratagun/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@omeratagun">@omeratagun</a></center></td></tr><tr><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/manishmike10/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@manishmike10">@manishmike10</a></center></td><td><center><img src="https://api.utopian.io/api/users/shreyasgune/avatar?round=true&size=50" style="border-radius:50%;"><br /><a target="_blank" href="//utopian.io/@shreyasgune">@shreyasgune</a></center></td></tr></table>
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