News & Updates on @steem-ua & UA-API!
News & Updates on @steem-ua & UA-API!
Wowzers! What a week it's been for UA, @steem-ua and UA-API! After publishing our Intro Post last Sunday, both the @steem-ua Discord Server as well as my own (@scipio) DM inbox became "pretty crowded", (which is kind of an understatement even)!
Before introducing, we had our hopes up that the UA Introduction would be well received. But this... we are truly humbled with the overwhelming attention and support we have gotten thus far from many-many-many people from the Steem Community. Thank you all for your support and engagement!!!
In this post, the second one posted via our new @steem-ua account, we'll talk about several exciting updates and some news on @steem-ua and the UA-API. Here we go!
@steem-ua, our Algorithmic Curation Program using UA data
After a few test-voting rounds, since last Sunday (August 26 2018) @steem-ua began using its algorithmic curation & upvoting mechanism with @steem-ua SP Delegators only. Since all types of content are welcome on @steem-ua, and because we cannot upvote every possible post published via the Steem Blockchain, we decided to let the @steem-ua bot curate, score & upvote posts published by @steem-ua SP delegators:
| SP Delegation | Sponsor Benefits & Upvote Frequency |
|---|---|
| 25 SP | max. 1 @steem-ua upvote per week |
| 50 SP | max. 2 @steem-ua upvotes per week |
| 100 SP | max. 4 @steem-ua upvotes per week |
| 250 SP | max. 7 @steem-ua upvotes per week |
| >= 5,000 SP | Stake-Based Sponsor Rewards + max. 7 @steem-ua upvotes per week |
PS1: delegation requirements could be subject to change, we'll then post about that prior to changes being applied.
PS2: @steem-ua reserves the right to reject upvoting accounts demonstrating abusive behavior.
If you want to participate on delegating STEEM POWER to @steem-ua, either to get your own content curated & upvoted, and/or to enter the additional "high-SP @steem-ua Sponsor Rewards Program", and/or if you simply want to support us and give more powerful upvotes to those accounts that deserve a juicy upvote to their magnificent contributions, here are some
Quick Delegation Links:
25 SP | 50 SP | 100 SP | 250 SP |
500 SP | 1,000 SP | 2,500 SP |
5,000 SP
@steem-ua is very quickly rising on the SP Delegation ladder!
What's happening with the SP Delegations that @steem-ua is empowered with, is - to my knowledge at least - never seen before at this scale and this fast on the Steem Blockchain. Shy under 6 days of being "LIVE", these are the top-15 Delegatee Accounts ranked by their number of delegators, at the time of writing this post:
| # | account | number of delegators | delegated SP |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | minnowbooster | 1400 | 675783 |
| 2 | smartsteem | 794 | 3003688 |
| 3 | minnowsupport | 434 | 94514 |
| 4 | tipu | 429 | 1007239 |
| 5 | steem-ua | 329 | 216386 |
| 6 | dmania | 272 | 47187 |
| 7 | steemhunt | 261 | 1718172 |
| 8 | justyy | 225 | 35435 |
| 9 | jerrybanfield | 207 | 572945 |
| 10 | actifit | 200 | 110715 |
Holy Macaroni! Coming from nowhere, being "LIVE" for only 6 days, having published 1 Intro Post before, you guys have now TurboBoosted @steem-ua to be the #5 most delegated account on the Steem Blockchain!!! YEAH!
That is nothing short of AMAZING! One can only wonder: Exactly how many accounts will eventually delegate to @steem-ua to empower its Algorithmic Curation Program to support @steem-ua, themselves and eachother? Will you also help us to get #1? Please do so!
BTW: you can see who's delegating what to @steem-ua by checking our website Delegators Page here: https://steem-ua.com/delegators
Updates on @steem-ua's Algorithmic Curation
After talking to several people, including @paulag who has been working on her own Steem Contribuion Score, we decided to incorporate the level of user engagement in our own algorithmic curation model. Our new and improved formula, which includes scoring a post's user engagement to ultimately compute our upvote with, is now like this:
UA_Vote = x * UA_Account + y * UA_Post + z * UA_Comment
To explain things simple:
- the higher your own account's UA score, and
- the better the votes on your post, computed by all post voters' UA scores, and
- the more interaction on your post via the comments
... the more powerful our upvote to your post!
"Smart Comments" System added to @steem-ua's Bot
Earlier today, in the last voting round, we introduced our new "Smart Comments" System: as we are constantly trying to improve everything we do, why not add some useful info in our comments, right after evaluating content and voting on it?
Starting today, @steem-ua is, via the SmartComments, trying to help you improve:
- how to get more followers,
- get more people reading your post,
- get more and higher upvotes from other accounts,
- more and better interaction / user engagement on your content,
- and ultimately a higher upvote from us as well!
UA-API, our Data Providing Service for UA Registered Partners
Many people representing other dApps, Promotional Services, Communities, External Crypto Assets integrating with STEEM for Airdrops, and others, have contacted us over the past few days to request for access on UA-API. Due to the overwhelming level of attention, interest and support, and the many questions that come with it, we tried our best to help each and everyone asgood as we could!
Documentation of UA-API Methods on our website
We've added a few API Request Methods already, and documented its usage on our website. In case you're interested to learn more, have a look at https://steem-ua.com/api-documentation. Of course, the methods documented there, are only the beginning: we plan to implement more functionality and upscale the speed and responsiveness of our UA-API as we progress.
Partnership with Smartsteem.com (@smartsteem)
@therealwolf, Founding father of Smartsteem contacted us almost immediately after having published our Intro Post regarding integration with UA-API. Smartsteem is an investment and promotion-service for the Steem blockchain, doing so in a sustainable and ethical manner. Implementing UA_Account scores right into Smartsteem's system, both enhances the experience of valid Smartsteem users as well as providing a quality metric to Smartsteem's investors. We're happy to integrate UA with Smartsteem, and improve together!
Partnership with @utopian-io
Having "invented" UA originally for @utopian-io as being the "Utopian Advisor" at the time, integrating UA-API at @utopian-io's own voting algorithm is of course only natural. Therefore we're proud to present the following partnership with @utopian-io:
- Utopian will integrate with UA-API asap, and is looking to do so at its forthcoming Hackathon later this month (September 2018). We've been told there will be bounties even, so be sure - when you're interested - to prove your skills and integrate it!
- @utopian-io and @steem-ua have the same "roots", which from now on translates into @utopian-io delegating a hefty amount of SP to @steem-ua and @steem-ua will also algorithmically curate & upvote approved Utopian contributions even when the contributors are not delegating to @steem-ua themselves! (Of course every Utopian Contributor is still very very welcome to delegate to @steem-ua !)
UA, Steem User Authority: Use Your Influence!
Visit our steem-ua.com website - View your UA score
Quick Delegation Links:
25 SP | 50 SP | 100 SP | 250 SP |
500 SP | 1,000 SP | 2,500 SP |
5,000 SP
Join our Discord:
Very well done. Good job guys!
Stake-Based Sponsor Rewards + max. 7 @steem-ua upvotes per week
If I Delegators you 5000SP，How much will I get in return?
Hi! Can you please join our Discord Server? I'll be happy to explain the details!
And thx for delegating 5,000 SP to @steem-ua! You rock!
Just delegated 25SP to @steem-ua to support the project.
Cheers :)
Delegated 250 SP to your project. Here's the link to the transaction.
https://steemd.com/tx/5adc5aeff6eb2ce54f7fd4d581d5c2e8b09f2f04
Hi! Great and thanks! :-)
PS1: there's no need to confirm your delegation transaction, as we scan & stream all blockchain blocks live. So at 3 seconds after delegating to @steem-ua, we know ;-)
PS2: feel free to join our @steem-ua Discord Server! Lots of info shared there as well, and we're having fun there too!
That is indeed an amazing story! Congratulations :)
Just a naive question: when do you vote on a post? As the number of votes and comments evolve with time, this may change the vote value.
[upvoted for visibility]
As far as I know, the voted post must be at least 6 hours old. Also there are something like "voting rounds", and if your post doesn't make it into this round, I guess it gets the chance to increase it's UA for the next round until the post is either too old to get voted, or it gets voted early enough ;)
That's at least how I think it is
interesting question, it would be ideal to vote after 5-6 days of posting. upvoted just to get an answer :D
Congratulations @steem-ua!
You raised your level and are now a Minnow!
Yeah!
I'm just wondering if the new ua system could be gamed by useless bots who are following everybody just to destroy their ua score. Please consider a cap on the negative impact of such behaviour. I got about 1000 useless following and I can't get rid of them...so is it my fault that so many nonsense accounts are following me? No its not their are many accounts who just follow everybody just to push the I follow you now you follow me prinicipal. And I also could see a lot of whales gathering together just to increase their score without creating good content. What are you guys planning to prevent such bad behaviour?
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Hi, thx for the suggestions!
dwhich decreases the "UA Trust" of witnesses as they are "inactive" over time (where "inactive" is defined by a number of metrics, which we are evaluating weights to for optimization).Steem on!
Yeah you guys are defenitely on the right track keep up the good work!!!
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amazed by the partnership and also what SmartComments can do to help steemians! well done! delegated 100 SP!
Great! And thx for the kind words & support! :-)
Keep improving it..keep making it complex enough for any single player to game it!!
another signal to consider , not only comment engagement on a post but upvotes on comments anywhere on blockchain ( determined by UA of upvoter)
@scipio
Delegated 25 , let's get this rolling
Actually upvotes on comments would be a great idea
To be clear , I am not suggesting for UA bot to vote for comments rather I am suggesting UA algo takes into account engagement on comments ( as wells as posts).
I think it was pretty clear since many people reply and engage with others but not so many upvote their followers’ comments...
Now I don’t suggest that all comments should be upvoted since there are also a lot of spam/ trash comments. But there are also useful and meaningful ones which don’t get the love they deserve
Just saying too...
I agree with the sentiment...
Congratulations on all the delegation you guys are getting and for coming up with such a good idea. I'll be delegating to this soon as well.
I'm curious to know how long after a post is published does your bot upvote that post or make the calculations of how many comments the post received.
I curate a community called Open Mic and while there are a lot of comments on my weekly posts, they come in throughout the week the contest runs. If your bot makes calculations before all those comments come in it could be missing the true amount of engagement happening there. I'm just curious of the timing you guys use or how you take that into account.
Keep up the good work and you have a new follower.
I just checked and your site says I have a UA score is 6.199 and a US rank of 221. I guess that's pretty good, but hey, the largest room in the world is room for improvement.
i was thinking about that too, but now as i read your comment it makes sense that it is some kind of average comments on your posts (not sure is average on all your posts to much calculation) or something like that.
I don't know. Will leave that to your numbers people. The app is incented to vote early on a post to get rewarded, but, like in my case, the comments come in all the way up to the last minute before payout. So I'm not sure how you would balance that.
from the discord talk
"- currently a post needs to be at least 6 hours old before we're curating / upvoting it
so not really sure what that means but it is not just number of comments
Delegated 250 SP.
https://steemd.com/tx/5adc5aeff6eb2ce54f7fd4d581d5c2e8b09f2f04