RE: Welcome The New Voting Distribution for the Utopian Bot And Moderation Rewards!
Prior to this update, only contributions which were marked as accepted by a Utopian Moderator could enter the voting round. Now, contributions with a score of at least 80 and a total influence greater than or equal to that made by one moderator, can enter the voting round.
After reading this I was 100% sure, that only posts with a score of at least 80 are upvoted, resulting in a minority of posts getting the upvote.
This would imho have broken utopian.
I think I don't have to elaborate any further why this would be bad for contributors, projects and utopian as a whole. I mean, we do want to get more people to do contributions, right? And a too high hurdle for beginners (or even experienced developers) would demotivate them, resulting in fewer good contributions...
Of course stuff that is clearly against the rules or really really bad to the point of being spam should deserve no upvote. But if something brings value to a project it should be upvoted (even if it is just a little).
I can see the cause of misunderstanding and it could be probably solved by adding one word.
There is no real "little" or "symbolic" vote at the moment.
Utopian votes are meant for the best of the best. If there are not enough of them, then other people may be upvoted as well.
Yes definitively. Very often it's just these little things that would improve the understanding.
Is it actively beeing rounded? Because I thought it should be the score times the maximum upvote for the category.
I haven't seen too many of the best of the best anywhere ;)
I read that part many times also and I did not really think that it makes that much difference. It is possible to misunderstand, though.
The vote is given in discrete values from 1 to 100 (excluding 0 because that means no vote). I hope I am not mistaken as I do not recall seeing decimals in the votes.
As I said, if there are not enough of the best, the others are still in the queue. There are going to be new QAs in the questionnaire that should be more suitable for each category.
We can see that lots of contributions get higher score because of questions that do not allow to give lower score, unless the user answers falsely.