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Increasing your UA Score

We have noticed many people asking how to increase their UA score, specially on our discord channels. Since this has been brough up plenty of times, it might be productive for the platform to put this on an official publication and hopefully answer this question in a more definite manner.

How is the UA score calculated?

Although this question has been answered since our launch, it seems obvious that to some the system is still unclear, or in the very least very complicated to understand. So with that in mind, we will try to explain it in a none technical way.

The scores are computed daily and they track the follows and unfollows on the blockchain. We start with our trusted accounts, witnesses and evaluate their ranks by determining how active they are, if they are up to date, their stake, etc. From there the trust network expands and we calculate the rest of the scores.

It's easy for anyone to check the top UA ranks on our website and check your own using steemconnect.

Is there a way to increase your score?

Of course there is, but some people are putting efforts on the wrong things. In other words, by unfollowing people with the idea of increasing your score, you might actually be hurting it, making people stop supporting you and unfollow you as well.

On top of that a clever steemian should be focusing on expanding their network and influence and not the opposite. It almost seems counterproductive to take the reductive approach when everyone is trying to expand their influence. Think about that for a second.

So what is the trick?

There are no shortcuts here, anyone who is interested in growing their influence on the blockchain has to expand their network the right way. Becoming an interesting content creator, interacting right, attracting followers using the dynamics we already understand: Interact with your audience, curate your comments, comment on other people's post, etc.

If users work on their network, become part of a community, which we strongly recommend, join our discord and make some friends, some new allies, then those users will no doubt increase their UA score over time.

Closing Thoughts

We will try tackle these common doubts in short form posts as to create a repository of common questions people have regaring @steem-ua. However please feel free to participate of the conversation in the comments below and share your experience with @steem-ua so far.

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Well, to be honest, I don't.
I mean, I would like to know how (is calculated) just like an info that I think should be transparent, but not as something I should adjust my actions. Sorry, but I don't believe in that!

I'm watching Google for over 10 years changing algorithms to prevent all sorts of abusers and quick-money-hunters trying to fool the system. At the end of the day, those who want to crack the system always (sooner or later) find the way how to do it until the algorithm is not changed again.

It turns to be an everlasting hide and seek game between greedy and more greedy ones. But the worst part is when the creators of the system and algorithms who instead of protecting its core purpose join the fooling the system game as well when it comes to their own benefits and taking the advantage.
And that's exactly what Google did for its own content, stores, services, etc. and therefore lost many cases in Europe for one sided manipulation and monopolization.

Unfortunately the situation on Steemit is not any different. There are good core investors, developers and witnesses (whales), but there are also those who care only about their current profits and to whom present situation and settings suit perfectly well. So well that they don't even care if it might hurt them in the long run, as they apparently believe they would run away (if they didn't already) with their bag full of money. And even if it's not the money (only), they certainly don't want to give up of the power they currently have.
Greed for the power has always been the stronger and greater human greed than the greed for the money.

Also, in past two years that I have been here on Steemit, I witnessed many changes (some for better, some for worse), but any of those changes didn't seriously deal with the main platform problems which from my point of view are spam, scam, plagiarism and copyright infringements, and even less with organic user's and its content visibility and reputation.

For that those who hold the power to make a change would have to have a very big and strong guts to face the truth of their own (un)popularity without self-pumping, inside closed circle each other supporting, and all other same or similar methods currently in use.

Therefore, I support this steem-ua initiative, as if nothing else, and in less than a month, clearly showed (through received support) how vast majority of active users are sick of the current situation.

On the other hand, although it might help us to gain and see some improvements on the platform, unfortunately, I don't believe it would make a big difference as long as our trending and hot pages wouldn't look different and as long as this "steem-ua score" wouldn't be able to truly affect everyone of us including those who write and implement current system functionality rules.

Having all of the above in mind, and from my point of view, how UA score is calculated is not that important.
More important is who we really are, how we behave (treat our readers and followers), what we have to offer, etc.

In my opinion, only that might define true survivals and successful ones, as at the end of the day, same as with (though the past years) Google algorithm changes, those are the only ones who would keep honest, true and loyal supporters and followers no matter of the kind of change and calculation.

The good system can only help them to find and gain them sooner and easier while the bad one makes their path harder and longer. That's the only difference!

(Sorry for such a long reply!)

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i think everyone should do whatever they want as long as its not intrusive, no one has the holy grail of content and a lot of people want a lot of different things. I think if you dont like what someone writes, you can just mute them and you'll never see them again. If you're gonna start dictating then who knows what is what ? the enlightened ones can tell for everyone what "good content" is ?

i dont think so, it also stifles innovation and new ways of thinking, new uses on the most advanced blockchain in existence at the moment, it shouldnt be under-used just for writing potter fan-fiction and "how bitcoin will rise to a million next month and steemit to half of that next week because of insert some vague facts here"

thats my opinion ofcourse :) thats the beauty, we're supposed to be able to have those without other people censoring us because they disagree

i like the advent of the next-gen steemers and systems, its a bit overdue and i think we're gonna see a lot more amazing stuff as the steemchain expands and refines itself, with a few bumps on every hardfork but still going forward, its the age of the utility token after all, no longer the age of speculation.

I'd change what you say to "if you want something you have to DO something" but what that means , thats a personal point of view

and then some ... its late :D

what i'd like to see here, is ned and his cronies lobbying for BIG advertising money and then implementing it in the least intrusive way ever

like flixxo does, they got coke and pepsi, rayban, greenpeace, paco rabane, nissan, kenzo ... thats BIG money :)

big money -> better steem and the way its done, you only watch ads when you EXPLICITLY click the button (and you get paid for it)

yah thats my first accepted video too btw lol, but thats not the point, the point is they found a way to make advertising SO useful it would be idiocy to adblock it :) AND i doubt coca cola came just knocking on their door while they were bickering on how to strongarm the plankton into writing what they wanna see

No one can grow up in a nanny state, that's why everyone should do whatever they want, without intruding on people.

thats the way i see it

ive been accused before that my comments are a lot bigger than my posts so, maybe , i dont know that influences the UA score too, although i find commenting to have nearly a nil-reward ratio when it comes to the actual thing everyone is really here for : the money.

To say you're not is hard to believe for me (and i mean "you" in general), moreover i think it's somewhat ironic to pledge allegiance to the holy content while praising steem-ua in one sentence since, score and ranking or not at its essence it IS (albeit an advanced) paid for upvoting system.
It's also something you will not see anywhere else as, as far as i know steemchain / steemit / busy, the api is what makes this thing what it is, and thats why i truly believe it a total waste to limit it to a single way of thinking or handling it, who cares if the trending section is full of crud ? that's just the way the world works, turn on your tv during prime time, what do you get ?

you get paid-for crud, if you want the goodies you have to dive below the surface, find the magically enchanted underwater caves where the fringe of the bell-curve lives, explore

i'm 100% against regulation by the upper class , im happy they removed the downvote button since out-of-sight out-of-mind psychology seriously helps with the temptation and if you wanna do it now you need at least a bit of savvy on the matter, i think thats a really good thing. It still doesnt help against raging trollbots armies and it still doesnt help against people with a single-minded view of what is "steemit" and what is not.

but its a start :)

i'm gonna stop before i hit the 16kb comment limit lol

please be aware, this is not an attack on your person or anyone else, this is simply my viewpoint on this place, i dont suffer from groupie mentality like you would get on minds.com, i dont believe in this tribal plague that haunts planet crypton and i'm pretty honest that i wouldnt be on steemit this much if there wasnt any money to be had, considering the fact that i rank 13000 in over a million accounts (suddenly i do ... last week i wasnt aware of that lol) and only last month i was in the top commenters i also think i dont have to prove anything. If my comments were posts and my posts would get what they're worth then that would be fine, but stuff like this ?

tends to get nothing heh

my personal opinion,

sincerely

el Gato del diablo :p

@nigelmarkdias , intrusive ... well, intrusive would be if you are going to force your post on others, that would be sending stuff around to clutter up the transaction feed, or posting comments willy-nilly with links to your content, otherwise, if you pay 5000 USD to get your post on top in trending, i dont think thats intrusive, no one has to go look there unless they choose to and since it already says "trending" you certainly (hopefully) don't expect to find the next dali or satoko fuji there , so thats somewhat what i mean, i didnt mean offensive, as i'm a total free speech extremist (which is NOT a far right or left extremist btw since neither of those will let anyone but their side talk) i think offensive has the simplest solution ever : mute , not regulate. It's a shame the nature of the steemchain does not allow "blocking" people from seeing your feed although i dont think it would be very hard to implement to just do that on the steemit-UI

just like they removed the downvote button (which will be some mystical urban legend for people who got on it after that) and the out-of-sight out-of-mind will definitely work, so would simply blocking it on the UI even if professional trolls can still find it all on the blockchain if they like, just like you can easily still cast negative vote weight (if you want to and know how to :)

maybe that clarifies a bit because despite my what did you call it

painstakingly detailed lol (i dont think thats far off, @mobbs called it "bouncing off the wall, i dont think thats far off either depending on the moment and time of day :D)

i know it can be very chaotic because i am, by nature, a force of chaos :))

big @scipio just asked me not five minutes ago to shut up for two seconds, and thats the whole thing

23.5 hours a day , i say absolutely nothing :p , now i have to check for my weekly physics lesson @lemouth, thanks for the vote btw, that rarely happens on comments :D

https://media.giphy.com/media/2P3wJnQuT4yL6/giphy.gif

so if you ask me, if @steem-ua has one task ahead of it , its certainly not regulation or censorship, definitely not steering by opinion, but moving beyond the simple-yet-most advance algorithm into deep learning so comments not voted on can be rated by quality and incorporated in the score, i think i have half a bible of those hahah

actually an a.i. like that might sell for facebook money lol , its above my braingrade i'm sure but so is a lot of stuff

as for the money-thing, i simply dont have much other income, im seriously damaged goods and i don't roll with the team because i simply cant do it anymore, and i fail whats wrong with money and i doubt anyone except people coming inhere with a mille or supermarketing will disagree, and i also seriously dont see where i'm lacking in content and delivery for that matter lol ;-)

other than that, my daylight mostly goes to doing dishes and cleaning house with a few comments in between, since there's no one but me to do that here atm, so i'm really gonna have to

cut this short

ah, wait ...

i remember something i read yesterday, on one of the topics : on how ridiculous things get these days and how people miss out on a zound of ideas by focusing on zbeliing, being gremmar nazis

and things like this :
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/18/09/13/1523229/python-joins-movement-to-dump-offensive-master-slave-terms

offensive master-slave terms ....

https://media.giphy.com/media/3og0INyCmHlNylks9O/giphy.gif

thing is, i can actually see all those highpowered brainiacs sitting around a table holding a deep-night meeting and taking themselves very seriously while discussing this grave issue and neglecting to push for progress instead ...

and then some because (oh and thats another thing) as long as the next hardfork doesnt fix that silly idea to keep all of it on the blockchain, every single edit, instead of using hybrid tek , and giving it a 24 hour period before it gets locked in or something

after editing this comment six or sevent times (not altering, it just means i wrote more at the bottom, i dont like to correct myself because that doesnt make it real or spontaneaous and by the time i get to the seventh edit im probably on a different head park than when i started) its gonna be a lot of clutter if every post gets locked in completely for every single letter, dot or comma edited

and then some but i really have to start dinner and stuff :)

but tell me, after these two fine comments and whatever else i wrote wherever my UA score is still the same as days ago, why is that ?

@nigelmarkdias i wasnt there :) it was more like the boyfriend of my girlfriends best friend lol i dont know how many there are ? i thought it was one big collection. Is that it ? in that case i guess he did, im talking about people from like ten years ago (around that, im not very exact in time) i havent seen any of them since. I mostly keep to myself and my cat here. If life , or i should say people didnt know what was good for me all the time id be long gone out of this hellhole (but i think dubai is too hot for me ... xept the women maybe hahah) its a company
they do
euhm ...
dredging ? im not sure about the word so if they did they probbaly helped mold the foundations on which those things are built yes, i think he got about 5000 euros a month or something (which is a LOT to earn here) all expenses paid so he got back from "the job" thats a nice wad of cash waiting, as good as untouched.
Different times, different life, different me, different people lol, although i still seem to go for diversity heh

i dont know its like we had full house seven days a week from when most were still at school and then theres like everyone, masters economy who went to teach IT, civic engineer who got bored after finishing cum laude, thought it was a boring job, then went to law school to study law in french (as a dutch speaker) and now lives in England (a wise decision) dba at fedex, super It guy who i think has his own company now and works "for a living" at the national tv it department i have a cousin who works IT at the EU, with a team and all that, and then construction workers and my other cousin is like carpenter furniture maker but works shifts in a factory, people who work for the govt ... unemployed people (like me now) horeca, cas mechanics white brown gay lol, everything, never lost for something :)

a complete total different life, it doesnt even seem like mine anymore
and for some reason i simply cant seem to care, i think that switched off somewhere (im not being depressed, i just have mental flatline most of the time, i really think that kicked in as a defense mechanism)

o yea military ofcourse, and cops ... and junkies ... everything in my phone back then lol

now i dont even have a sim-card in it :))

almost sleepy time so, last edit (to the question why dont you write your life story and i dont believe it and all those others that sometimes pop up)

its complicated, this town is pretty much far-right (where i grew up) i was a little shy nerdy a+ grade kid i could read before school and all that, and from there i have been a few people, and then when i set out to be nobody, it always pushes me back here , so as for my life, thats why i usually dont talk about it :)
its too much of everything to make sense and im a bit tired of ppl prying afterwards with the "i dont believe you's" and all that (not that i say you do or dont, its just in general) and i dont really care who believes what since it doesnt matter, all that matters is where i stand now : knee-deep in the swamp where old people and ideas come to die and i simply cant do it anymore, from concerts and movies every week to nothing, i just cant, and i wont, its not a matter of just push yourself , everyone has been pushing so hard to make me something i am not despite of everyone i am that i'm full of bruises from them pushing buttons i dont have :D

if that makes sense,
so this is my last shot, if this fails im just gonna ask for zombie pills and sit drooling for the rest of my life hahah

the socializing and the this and the that and the 90% fake people and the everyone around you trying to pick your brain, dump you like a brick, fuck you over, steal your money, rat you out, set you up, frame you, this that blah, sapiens ... work, offices factories

its ...

its me, my cat and my ivory tower now, thats the only way this goes down anymore, otherwise not at all, i already dont have a life and i already dont give a shit heh ...

the short version

maybe ten years after i get my life back i'll go "looking for love" again but im not sure that will ever happen again

its my life, its not a story, its not meant for emotional vampires and competitive psychopaths to feed on, i shall take my secrets to my grave

and just

this morning someone on discord was talking to me like some kind of shrink in an institution , what was that ?

o yea "i have a challenge for you" she said, be nice and help people and see what you get back

and i said right up "i already know the answer to your challenge : "gandhi got shot"

(i know you didnt ask for this it just uncorked, no need to feel sorry or anything lol, i know i dont)

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How is the UA score calculated?

Is there a way to increase your score?

So what is the trick?

Closing Thoughts

Who will define intrusive, Rudy?

Having said that, thank you for commenting in such a painstakingly detailed manner.

I can learn from you, a great deal, about commenting!

What if there was a comment centric UX?😊

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, @RudyardCatling

Did he help build this?