Good day for a @utopian-io community report.

Metrics: Week

Time period: 4-11 July 2019

1 contribution processed, same as last week
Mean score of 50 and median of 50
No highest or lowest score; the score is 50

All contributions are scored fairly and impartially in accordance with Utopian policies and guidelines and incorporating a predefined set of questions specific to the anti-abuse category.

Contributions

Score	Assessor	Author	Post
50	@guiltyparties	@jaguar.force	Read Post

Another slow week except for @jaguar.force who never sleeps. Unfortunately this contribution didn't quite fit the scope of the category but it was still very thoughtful and a lot of work went into it. I'm glad to have had a chance to review it myself as it was an interesting read.

Active Assessors for the Week

@guiltyparties

Just myself this week.

Metrics: 2019

The highest month for contributions was April with 20 posts. July is at 1, being the lowest month so far.

The category wasn't around last summer and it's difficult to say if the low number of contributions are due to the holiday season and the general related slowdown.

The total sum of all 2019 contributions stands at 89 to date. (Four of those were subsequently rejected for various reasons but are still included in these numbers as having been received.) The rejections all happened earlier on and not in recent months, when the quality of contributions generally increased.

A total of 19 contributors made posts under the @utopian-io anti-abuse category so far this year. We are hoping to grow this number as more people find out about anti-abuse initiatives or formulate ideas for their own. [No change]

The top contributor is still @jaguar.force with 20 valid contributions. Thank you @jaguar.force.

There are currently only three active assessors in the anti-abuse category, although over the lifetime of the category itself we had a total of five. This is just general attrition and people re-focusing elsewhere in their lives for necessity sakes and not due to anything to do with the anti-abuse category itself. It should not be taken as a reflection on Utopian or the category. [No change]

So far, a total of 4 contributions were rejected as wholly invalid for the category and were thus not assessed. This number hasn't changed from last week or the week prior and hopefully will not change in the future. We don't want to get invalid contributions. [No change]

This does not include contributions that were awarded a score of zero. A rejection and a low score are not the same thing. Rejections are not assessed, as aforementioned, but zero-scores are. [No change]

Good Contributions to the Anti-Abuse Category

A good contribution doesn't have to be on a particularly pressing anti-abuse subject to be relevant. For example, you don't have to write about investigating plagiarism or something where you've personally gotten your hands dirty and put yourself at risk. [No change]

A good contribution will typically have the following checked off:

The post will be interesting to read (you don't want to have the reader give up halfway through because of boredom)
The post will be by someone who knows the anti-abuse landscape of the Steem ecosystem
The writer will evidently care about the anti-abuse topic they are writing about
The post will have some helpful metrics or images to guide the reader
The post will strive to educate the reader on how to recognize abuse and empower them to fight it

User Perception of the Category

"I have never heard of the utopian anti-abuse category, however I would infer that it is a group who are supporting each other from abuse because they believed in utopia." ~ user who will remain anonymous

Regular users who are not developers or have had previous exposure to the Utopian project have not heard of the anti-abuse category. That being said, these same users are potential contributors. They care about abuse on the platform and were instrumental in addressing holistic problems like phishing and harassment.

Spreading awareness about Utopian and about the anti-abuse category will greatly add to the effectiveness of the contributions. The entire purpose is to share anti-abuse information with the general userbase and this cannot be done unless the userbase knows to curate the tag by reading. Going forward, I will look at marketing strategies to ensure the category remains useful and not forgotten.

This is also an action-item for our category goals presented last week; namely, increasing contributor numbers. Awareness is key.