In Utopian.io we have been running a public poll to make the decisional process democratic. The public poll is on Discord.
Changes to the rules and to the platform were discussed and soon implemented during the Utopian Poll 12/23/2017.
Results of the Utopian Poll
- For the development category, we should allow only pull requests that have been merged recently (no longer than 30 days). [RESULT: YES]
- Moderators and Supervisors should be divided into categories and a single moderator/supervisor should only review a specific category. [RESULT: NO]
- If moderators will be only allowed to review specific categories, should we have developers moderating the development category and also make sure the repository does not contain any obvious unsafe or outdated code? [RESULT: NO]
- Blogs posts should be in any language and not English only. [RESULT: YES]
- Contributions under the Translations category will be rejected if they are obviously machine translated. [RESULT: YES]
- We should delete this sentence from the Visibility Category rules: If your effort brought 0 or very little new users/contributors to the Open Source project you are invited to not write about it. [RESULT: NO]
- A moderator may reject a contribution in the Visibility Category if the moderator believes there are not enough results for the contribution to be rewarded. [RESULT: YES]
- In the Graphic Category, logo designs should be in vector format UNLESS the project owner specifies a different format, only editable shapes are allowed in PSD files, flatten and rasterized layers are not editable. [RESULT: YES]
- In the Translation Category, we should accept a contribution from other translation platforms not only Github or CrowdIn. (write in the comments the platforms that you believe should be acceptable) [RESULT: NO]
- We should make a whitelist of languages we can accept based on languages moderators can understand. This list should grow over time. [RESULT: YES]
- Enhance the rules for the blog category with this sentence: You must provide original and unique editorial content of a very high quality that is strongly related to the promotion and development of open-source related projects. [RESULT: YES]
- In the blog category, contributors should be forced to pick a GitHub repository to link the blog post to a specific Open Source project. [RESULT: YES]
- We should make a repository blacklists. Every contribution under these repositories will be rejected. [RESULT: YES]
- Supervisors should have a weekly voice conference with the moderators. Each team will make a public review in this voice session. [RESULT: YES]
- Create 4 new categories: Sound FX, Recurring Analyses, Photography/Imagery under Creative Commons [RESULT: NO]
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