Top of Utopian.io: October 17

This week saw some awesome contributions to Utopian from some of our finest contributors. We've got posts from the Development, Translation, Anti-abuse, Tutorials, and Blog categories. If you want to know how best to contribute, reading these posts will be an excellent step to take. Please note that most of these have not yet gotten their Utopian vote, which is reflected in the current earnings.

Staff Picks

Utopian Messaging/Chat Application by Hive account@tensor [development]

This contribution is about the new Utopian messaging module which will be part of the new Utopian platform. The application adds a messaging service so that users may communicate with one another directly and indirectly. The module will also let the platform serve notifications to users about the status of their projects and contributions. There are many more cool features include. To find out about all of them, you will need to go check out the contribution!

Total payout: 88.53 STU
Number of votes: 107

GDevelop - Greek Translation Part 7 (~1154 words) by Hive account@ruth-girl [translations]

The translator performed well in the following 5 areas: 1) The translation was perfect, as no errors were found; 2) The translated strings were formatted perfectly; 3) The contribution post was gave a detailed report about the process of the translation work; 4) The translator worked well with the moderator in choosing the right terms for certain words; 5) The write up is done in a personal style to promote engagement of the community.

Total payout: 5.74 STU
Number of votes: 178

Flagging comment spam is a regular part of curation. Let’s learn how! by Hive account@steemseph [anti-abuse]

This is one of the best posts for the new antiabuse category. Hive account@steemseph explains how to find spam content on mobile devices and on personal computers. This work is very helpful to anyone who would like to curb abuse on steem dApps. Hive account@steemseph uses some humor, and despite being a long post it is easy to read. You will enjoy his way of teaching you about this very important subject to proper curation on steem dApps.

Total payout: 3.36 STU
Number of votes: 65

Tutorial: Defensive programming in Python; Using and extending the typeconstraints module by Hive account@mattockfs [tutorials]

Hive account@mattockfs brings us another great tutorial, that sheds light on using defensive programming techniques. He focuses on typeconstraints, a Python library. For all python lovers and enthusiasts, this is a recommended tutorial to help avoid certain limitations and/or potential coding issues. Those could otherwise easily waste hours and hours of debugging, and/or cause incorrect output of your scripts.

Total payout: 1.32 STU
Number of votes: 33

My Experience Using Byteball Chatbots by Hive account@jaff8 [blog]

Earlier in the week, Hive account@jaff8 reviewed Byteball. It was a solid review, but completely ignored the bots feature. I commented on that in the moderation comment, and I’m so glad I did. Hive account@jaff8 took the challenge and wrote a comprehensive review of the feature, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses. Just excellent work all around, giving some valuable insights about one of the most unique and interesting cryptocurrency platforms around.

Total payout: 3.97 STU
Number of votes: 143

Utopian.io Post Statistics

The staff picked contributions are only a small (but exceptional) example of the mass of contributions reviewed and rewarded by Utopian.io.

Overall, the last week saw a total of 227 posts, with 80 of them rewarded through an upvote by Hive account@utopian-io.
In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 3878.43 STU to contributors.
The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 298.07 STU, with a total of 517 votes received from the community.
The contribution that attracted the most engagement was SteemDocs.net - Glossary Bundle #11 + - Utopian Powered Steem Documation Network Website, with no less than 6 comments in its comment threads.
The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 48.48 STU.

Category Statistics

Category	Reviewed	Rewardable	Rewarded	Total rewards	Top contributor
bug-hunting	4	2	1	27.55 STU	Hive account@stmdev
graphics	20	19	10	417.98 STU	Hive account@ggabogarcia
tutorials	13	9	5	176.84 STU	Hive account@yalzeee
translations	114	113	46	2381.98 STU	Hive account@cremisi
analysis	4	4	1	22.25 STU	Hive account@miniature-tiger
documentation	1	1	1	63.76 STU	Hive account@cryptoctopus
copywriting	3	2	2	50.55 STU	Hive account@harry-heightz
development	29	27	6	361.10 STU	Hive account@tensor
blog	20	14	1	49.79 STU	Hive account@jaff8
iamutopian	8	8	6	303.54 STU	Hive account@rosatravels
ideas	4	4	1	23.09 STU	Hive account@ckole
anti-abuse	3	3	0	0.00 STU	Hive account@steemseph
social	3	3	0	0.00 STU	Hive account@dongentle2
video-tutorials	1	1	0	0.00 STU	Hive account@tensor