Utopian 1UP - A Sophisticated Curation Trail For Utopian.io (version 1.0)

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The 1UP team is proud to announce the live version of the first gamified curation trail on the Steem blockchain. With the 1UP system we are uniting effective trailing with quality curation exclusively for Utopian contributions and a hivemind solution for (nearly) all Steemians to participate with an equal voice.

What is 1UP?


1UP is a combination of a new upvote button, an automated voting system and a curation trail upvoting the highest ranking post every 2.4 hours. It is entirely free and aims to reward the best open source contributions on Utopian.io. All qualified Steemians can use the new button, integrated via the @steem-plus browser extension, to give 1UP's to entitled posts deserving higher upvotes in your personal opinion.

With this system we hope to motivate authors to create higher quality content on Utopian in order to receive a significant upvote from the @utopian-1up curation trail. At the same time the system is designed to only include posts that will still receive the big @utopian-io upvote, effectively frontrunning it, to make it very profitable for all trailers lending their voting power to 1UP by following the official 1UP trail.

How To Use The New 1UP Button


To install the new 1UP button you need the free browser extension @steem-plus. You can use it in Chrome, Opera and Firefox. If you already use Steem-Plus please make sure to install the latest version and activate it with the integrated Steem Connect function (It was added with v2.4). For more details about Steem-Plus, its functions (1UP is merely one of many features) and how to install it for your browser please read the latest update post.

Currently the 1UP button appears only on Utopian.io. But we will integrate it into Steemit and Busy as well soon. Only posts that have been manually accepted by a moderator, properly following the Utopian rules, will activate the 1UP button. Posts that are already upvoted by @utopian-io or which have been rejected by moderators will not be able to receive 1UPs. Only Steemians with a reputation of 45+ will be able to see the button. Don't worry if you are lower, you will get there quickly if you are an active user. You can still follow the trail even with a lower reputation.

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How To Follow The 1UP Trail


Everyone can follow the curation trail for helping making 1UP bigger and to earn high curation rewards. We are using the open source tool SteemAuto for our trail. You can register a free account there and set it up to follow the @utopian-1up trail. After following the trail your account will automatically upvote all posts upvoted by @utopian-1up which happens exactly every 2.4 hours. For more information about how SteemAuto works check out @scrooger's detailed tutorial. Below you also find an animated GIF showing you just how to follow the trail.

By default you will follow the trail with 50% upvote weight. You can change that to any amount between 1% and 100%. The 1UP system will use exactly 20% voting power every single day or 2% every 2.4 hours. If you don't need your voting power for other things you can set it to 100% to receive the highest curation rewards but you will not be able to upvote any other post on the Steem blockchain without breaking your voting power equilibrium. But even of you just follow 1UP with 1% upvote weight you are still helping and earning higher rewards for this little bit than by manually upvoting random posts with the same weight.

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The Utopian 1UP Ranking Website


Each post receiving a 1UP will be tracked on our live 1UP ranking page. Here you will find the current ranking list with the upvote timer for the next trail upvote. The highest ranked post is featured prominently on the top and all other posts with less 1UP's are following below. Besides the current ranking you can also see all previously upvoted posts from today, yesterday as well as an all-time best ranking. When you hover over a post you will get forwarding links to the post on Utopian, Steemit and Busy for reading and upvoting. You will also be able to see the amount of 1UP's received for each post, their cover images, the authors and the post titles.

--> Click To Go To The 1UP Ranking Page

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1UP Rules


  • You can vote 10 times a day
  • You must have a reputation of 45 or more
  • You can only vote once a day for the same person
  • You cannot vote for yourself
  • You cannot vote for a post that has already been upvoted by either @utopian-1up or @utopian-io.

The Team Behind 1UP


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Also many thanks to all other contributors, particularly to @kayrex for the cool mascot illustration and to @orelmely for the logo. I would also like to thank all Utopian moderators for testing 1UP and @elear for creating the marvelous opportunity to finance a project like 1UP from scratch with the Utopian.io reward system.

Conclusion


This is just the beginning. We will add more features step by step and test and observe closely how 1UP behaves and how you out there will use the system. We have big plans for 1UP but for now we are happy to just see the system in action and make sure it will be a fair and transparent process for everyone. Also, 1UP is not just a system for Utopian but might serve as well for other platforms like DTube, dMania, DSound, DLive, Slothicorn and so on. We are happy to discuss this with the project leaders in private and find ways to make this the state-of-the-art curation system for the Steem blockchain.

The SBD payout of this post will be split between @stoodkev, @andrejcibik and @flauwy after promotion costs.

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This post was funded/promoted by @devfund using a budget of 500.00 USD on ~20 voting bots.

All money sent to or earned by this account will be used to fund and promote Steem ecosystem development like this one.

As I understand we earn more from curation, when bigger votes comes after our vote. So is this trail going to prevote before utopian bot votes ?

Or my understanding is wrong ?

That's exactly how it works!

So that means, its a utopian approved bot :), before they run the utopian bot, they will run this one, I will join. After all who does not love more curation rewards !!!

Exactly , what a wonderful idea

Utopian amazing. Gods work here

@flauwy Looks great and even more if it is related to Utopian. Unfortunately I am not a good coder, or a coder at all, I am more into cryptos and writing. But I recognize the great added value Utopian has a future Github with the plus of paying community contributors.
I would love to have a badass avatar drawn by you!!!

I am not a coder either nor an illustrator. All done by others. I am merely the idea giver.

Love this idea!!! Utopian is always ahead of everybody in the Steem blockchain

This sounds interesting. It’s a bit too late at night for me to fully comprehend but I will look into it more soon. If I get the gist, this is a way for someone who doesn’t contribute much as an author to increase their earnings as a curator? Right now curation pays me very little but my author payments are bringing home the bacon. At a certain point I won’t be able to use all my voting power as an author and I will need to focus more on curation or delegate sp to someone else. The 1UP button helps me stay in control of curating content but nets me more profit somehow? Totally interested in learning more! Thanks for the post! Upvote / Resteem

Yes, this is perfect for everyone who is not an active Steemian to follow the trail and make much more curation rewards. Curation depends entirely on your Steem Power. The more you have the more you make.

I don't understand your question about the 1UP button, though.

Sorry for the late night ramble! :-) Let me ask you this: What does it mean to follow the trail? Thanks!

It means that your account will automatically upvote all posts the trail leader is upvoting.

Ok. Got it. One last question for the beginner (me) how does this increase my curation rewards as apprised to curating more random or less quality posts. Do I not get the same cut back depending on the post I curate? Thanks and will be supporting you guys nine the less. I love the idea!

Utopian is a awesome blockchain open source project!

It is the best ever happening to open source, I believe. :)

Great to hear that the project is live guys! I'm sure it was a lot of hard work and effort. thanks very much for making this for the community!

Thank you, it was indeed a lot of work although split between many people. I think @stoodkev had the most work with the development but he was also rewarded for it very well by Utopian. Amazing system!

Is every 1up vote the same weight? Hence the minimum rep requirement to at least create somewhat of an obstacle for bot-netting the results?

Every 1UP uses 100% upvote weight. However, the trailers can adjust their own weight as they please.

So... I'm an idiot, to be really sure I'm understanding this... the 1up vote uses your regular steem voting power? Or is it a separate 1up power bar?

Regular Steem voting power.

It's great to see this development! I have been talking about how the quality of content is actually lacking and still some bad posts get bizar rewards.

This is a very important step to making this a better and stronger platform! Although its not really clear to me what 1up exactle is and how it functions technically.

I'm curious about to seeing it funtion! Is it possible for me to participate in this?

Have a good day!

Yes, you can participate in two ways:

  1. Use the 1UP button on Utopian (or soon on Steemit and Busy as well). You need to install and activate @steem-plus for this.

  2. Follow the trail and increase the 1UP power while earning high curation rewards.

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