RE: Utopian: OFFICIAL STOP to Micro Suggestions and Ideas
I agree with your realization 100% and it's good that there is a learning curve happening at this early stage as I do believe utopian.io is a good idea.
However, it's quite unfair to the contributors and to the bot (poor bots!) for doing what they are programmed to do. Come to think of it, who programmed those bots? they don't think for themselves (we haven't gone that far yet) take responsibility of those bots and your moderators who accepted the contributions.
This is what we have in the rules https://utopian.io/rules
Ideas/Feature requests Category
Contributions submitted under this category are the most important ones, therefore they must provide as much details as possible. Ideas and feature requests must be well explained and in great details. They must include images or videos and include any necessary information for the idea/feature to be created.
In your rules you have not quantified or even mention what is micro request and micro suggestions , this takes a qualitative/quantitative assessment which your bot cannot do by their own.
As a developer myself ...i consider every contribution as crucial as the system i'm building. Because however micro you think of them (your word not mine), they make up the entire system or even made you realize something right? or have lead you to make a better change to utopian.io!
there is no such thing as micro ideas ...only meager heads
Totally agree with you @precise. This post was a fast patch to avoid these kind of micro suggestions being submitted in the platform. We take responsibility this is why we are creating a different category for them where the bot will vote with less power. Will be released tomorrow ;)