RE: Small updates to Utopian.rocks and more
Nice updates the problem is whether you like it or not luck is an element of the equation, for example some good contributions will not be upvoted because there are others with higher score that keep delaying it in the queue, the same goes for low contributions, some of them will get upvoted simply because there were no better contributions. Obviously we cannot vote all contributions but I suggest to add the age of the contribution as an element of the overall rank inand the queue, for exp let's say 80% of the score counts for the quality of the contribution and 20% for the age. The higher the age the more the score, of course that's just a random distribution, all we have to do is to find that sweet spot.This way we ensure that at a certain level, older contributions will get higher chance (with time )to get rewarded before their expiration. I believe it's a great fix ...
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Categories have their own reward share, so it's not unfair if a contribution in that category doesn't get upvoted because other contributions in that category have a higher score. It simply means that the author of the contribution with the low score should try to up the quality of their contributions. Luck has nothing to do with it.
The fact that contributions with a low score get upvoted simply because there aren't any other contributions in the category is not a problem with the bot.
Finally, the queue is sorted by creation date and then by score. This means that contributions when contributions in the same category have the same score, older ones will be prioritised.
Shares remain as they are, this suggestion is for categories with high competition such as translation, if you make a good contribution but there are better ones, you might not get an upvote.