[ANN] Futourist - travel review platform where you get paid for your content - page 37.

Onatarmedracen

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Quote from: Futourist on January 26, 2018, 04:59:38 AM

Quote from: Onatarmedracen on January 26, 2018, 03:47:57 AM

"A user can act both as A reviewer and a curator at the same time."
In this case, will the curator be limited to the evaluation of his video? Does this happen in automatic mode? How is the fairness of evaluation guaranteed?

Hi!

That's a good question. Curator will typically just upvote and downvote reviews. He will not be able to do that on his own post.

Fairness of evaluation is guaranteed with the following facts:
- Trusted users will have more voting power (high level accounts)
- The upvote power shall be adapted to the behaviour of each user (if you watch 10 videos and do 10 upvotes, your voting power should not be as high, as someone who gave 1 upvote to the best of 100 watched videos)
- We'll have phone verification at account creation to prevent as much bots being created as possible
- Fraudulent accounts (upvoting spammers, bots that get through,..) will be traced by our AI finding behavioral patterns for such accounts, before the reward is given (there is a time period after the review is created, when the community has their say about the review). We're very glad to have an experienced AI expert in our team, they are very rare to find these days.

Thanks for the full answer. I'm glad you have good professionals. But in the case of such identification, such as phone number, will these measures suffice to eliminate bots completely from the Futourist system?

Vasyafet

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Quote from: Futourist on January 26, 2018, 09:35:49 AM

Our project marketing and promotion of the platform is covered with two resources. First one is 45% Community token allocation. This means we will be giving out 45% of utility tokens to reviewers, curators, users, influencers and potential test companies. These tokens will help us kickstart our project and generate new reviews. Beside that we have allocated 20% of collected funds (ETH) for marketing purposes.

Bloggers and influencers are viable for both of those resources because we want tight connection with influencers.

Oh, thanks, really, i had read this paragraph wrong way.
20% it's great, enough to become popular, especially if remember about:
"At this moment, we do not have a direct competition that would reward the contributors using blockchain. Our
real competition exists in the old economy, with companies like TripAdvisor, Foursquare and Yelp, but they do not
incentivise their users to create quality content with meaningful rewards."

Futourist

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Here are 11 Reasons Why It’s a Good idea to contribute to the Futourist Token Crowdsale:

1. Working product ✔️
2. Realistic Hard Cap ✔️
3. Travel industry✔️
...

Read more!👇🏻
https://medium.com/futourist/11-reasons-why-its-a-good-idea-to-contribute-to-the-futourist-token-crowdsale-7efec31d7c50

Truthfinder76

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Quote from: Letopisets on January 26, 2018, 10:48:45 AM

"Nearby offers is another core feature of Futourist. Businesses listed on the platform will be able to post business offers for the public to buy. "
Wouldn't it be too intrusive for my location? Will I be able to disable this feature myself?

How i understand it mean something like "buy two chickens for 99.99 tokens", you will see it only if you visiting some business or planning to visit and now you checking info about it.

abbeycrypto

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great am interested

Letopisets

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"Nearby offers is another core feature of Futourist. Businesses listed on the platform will be able to post business offers for the public to buy. "
Wouldn't it be too intrusive for my location? Will I be able to disable this feature myself?

junieeegasm

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Quote from: miko_style on January 11, 2018, 02:01:52 PM

Any bounty?

UPD. Yours site is down now.

Register here. https://futourist.io/compete

There are available competition platforms there.

Futourist

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Quote from: Vasyafet on January 26, 2018, 08:54:23 AM

Quote from: Futourist on January 26, 2018, 04:04:00 AM

Quote from: Vasyafet on January 25, 2018, 08:40:11 AM

Hello! i had read "How Futourist Protects Users From Abuse" paragraph in whitepaper, it's interesting but not understandable (maybe only for me, sorry) why user B just can't create 1000 fake upvotes by bots and get first place? did you mean that difference in money between places ($1k in your example) is smaller than price of 1k fake upvotes?

Hi!

That's a good question. The answer is somewhat long.
Bot accounts can be identified and limited through things like phone verification and especially AI finding bot behavior patterns in the fake account activity log.
In the case of 1000 fake upvotes, our AI mechanism will have an easy task of identifying this pattern. A simple way of the top of my head would be comparing view count and reactions to video. Also looking at the geolocation and timeframes of the upvotes etc.
The point being here that fraudulent actions can not be prevented in advance, but they can be traced down. And rewarding users only after the community has their say about it gives us enough time to identify possible frauds.

Thank you for this long answer! I have another question, in token distribution missing marketing, do you planning advertising of your app? Or resources for this it's "for future partners"? Like bloggers who will speak about you in their blogs.

Our project marketing and promotion of the platform is covered with two resources. First one is 45% Community token allocation. This means we will be giving out 45% of utility tokens to reviewers, curators, users, influencers and potential test companies. These tokens will help us kickstart our project and generate new reviews. Beside that we have allocated 20% of collected funds (ETH) for marketing purposes.

Bloggers and influencers are viable for both of those resources because we want tight connection with influencers.

Peanland

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Quote from: Futourist on January 26, 2018, 05:15:30 AM

Quote from: Peanland on January 26, 2018, 04:37:27 AM

I do not quite understand, users determine the amount of the reward themselves or it puts automatically?

The final amount of reward, in the late stages, will be set by the market value of the token itself. The amount of token reward will be defined by Futourist or the business running the contest, based on the reward pool size and the distribution curve (we will be using the Pareto principle) and some other parameters. All these parameters will have to be fine tuned when Futourist goes public, and will probably keep changing throughout the evolution of Futourist. In the end we have to establish a balance between the token income, coming into the platform, and token output, which are rewards.

oh! thanks, now all clear

Vasyafet

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Quote from: Futourist on January 26, 2018, 04:04:00 AM

Quote from: Vasyafet on January 25, 2018, 08:40:11 AM

Hello! i had read "How Futourist Protects Users From Abuse" paragraph in whitepaper, it's interesting but not understandable (maybe only for me, sorry) why user B just can't create 1000 fake upvotes by bots and get first place? did you mean that difference in money between places ($1k in your example) is smaller than price of 1k fake upvotes?

Hi!

That's a good question. The answer is somewhat long.
Bot accounts can be identified and limited through things like phone verification and especially AI finding bot behavior patterns in the fake account activity log.
In the case of 1000 fake upvotes, our AI mechanism will have an easy task of identifying this pattern. A simple way of the top of my head would be comparing view count and reactions to video. Also looking at the geolocation and timeframes of the upvotes etc.
The point being here that fraudulent actions can not be prevented in advance, but they can be traced down. And rewarding users only after the community has their say about it gives us enough time to identify possible frauds.

Thank you for this long answer! I have another question, in token distribution missing marketing, do you planning advertising of your app? Or resources for this it's "for future partners"? Like bloggers who will speak about you in their blogs.

angrygerl

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How much it became clear to me your strategy is to attract tourists to good places. In the future you do not plan to place in your application Black list as a separate section, where you could share and bad impressions?

kil5478

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Quote from: Futourist on January 26, 2018, 07:35:29 AM

Quote from: sahabond on January 26, 2018, 06:35:02 AM

Business - a company who uses Futourist in order to spread awareness / make direct sales / get other benefits like audience analytics etc.

I would like to know in more detail how the business will make sales within the network? Will it be direct advertising or something else?

Hey!

Direct sales will be done through a feature we call Offers. Every business listed on Futourist will be able to create Offers, which users can claim with their tokens. For example, a restaurant posts an offer "Roast beef dinner for two + a bottle of red wine only 500 FTR".
Besides offers, business can create contests (advertising, awareness spreading), can pay for positioning (go higher in the search results), can pay for advance business intelligence (analytics). All these things increase their business revenue in one way or another.

It will be just fine as this will not strain ordinary users. I read about several channels of infusion of money into the system. Can you talk more about this?

Futourist

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Quote from: sahabond on January 26, 2018, 06:35:02 AM

Business - a company who uses Futourist in order to spread awareness / make direct sales / get other benefits like audience analytics etc.

I would like to know in more detail how the business will make sales within the network? Will it be direct advertising or something else?

Hey!

Direct sales will be done through a feature we call Offers. Every business listed on Futourist will be able to create Offers, which users can claim with their tokens. For example, a restaurant posts an offer "Roast beef dinner for two + a bottle of red wine only 500 FTR".
Besides offers, business can create contests (advertising, awareness spreading), can pay for positioning (go higher in the search results), can pay for advance business intelligence (analytics). All these things increase their business revenue in one way or another.

Futourist

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Quote from: uservalera on January 26, 2018, 04:34:46 AM

now people read reviews about various places of rest in different sources.
and the idea of making a single source of reliable information is a great idea.
But how are you going to fight the responses that people will write themselves about their own company? how objective will they be?

Hi!

No one can really prevent such things from happening. On TripAdvisor, we reckon there is a whole lot of reviews being written by people with heavy conflict of interest. But the bare quantity of other reviews each business gets makes that one questionable review get lost in the crowd. We believe that if TripAdvisor can make it work, we can make it work at least as well.

The main feature of Futourist dealing with problems of trust is account Level. Users will gain trust by contributing (reviewing etc) to the platform and this will be reflected in the users account Level. Higher account levels should be trusted more and will have more voting power when calculating the reward for that review. In case of someone making an account to upvote their own business, is kind of similar to a newbie account on BitcoinTalk posting something big things about a very specific ICO - there has got to be something he's not saying out loud.

Another thing to keep in mind here, is that trust is connected to the type of content a reviewer is submitting. It's much easier to make a dishonest text review than it is to make a dishonest video review. And Futourist will prefer video reviews over text reviews.

sahabond

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Business - a company who uses Futourist in order to spread awareness / make direct sales / get other benefits like audience analytics etc.

I would like to know in more detail how the business will make sales within the network? Will it be direct advertising or something else?

Futourist

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Quote from: Peanland on January 26, 2018, 04:37:27 AM

I do not quite understand, users determine the amount of the reward themselves or it puts automatically?

The final amount of reward, in the late stages, will be set by the market value of the token itself. The amount of token reward will be defined by Futourist or the business running the contest, based on the reward pool size and the distribution curve (we will be using the Pareto principle) and some other parameters. All these parameters will have to be fine tuned when Futourist goes public, and will probably keep changing throughout the evolution of Futourist. In the end we have to establish a balance between the token income, coming into the platform, and token output, which are rewards.

Futourist

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Quote from: Truthfinder76 on January 26, 2018, 04:29:41 AM

Will your app contain advertising? Excepting businesses that added on the map and now promoted by tokens.

We are keeping our options opened about implementing the traditional ads (like banner ads). We do not want to ruin the user experience by such ads, so if possible, we won't go there. What we will do is offer positioning to businesses (they can come up higher on the search). This will of course be transparently communicated with the users (e.g. "Sponsored" tag).

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Quote from: Waleyoshaniann on January 26, 2018, 03:57:35 AM

"Contest has the following parameters:
• Title-e.g. "Review burger places in your Town"
• Location of the contest-e.g. United Kingdom
• Start date of the contest
• End date of the contest
• Token Rewards (reward pool) "
This part is clear to me, but on what principle will be the choice of the venue of the competition?

Hi!

Contests are only one of the features of our platform. They will be initialized by either Futourist (at the start, for incentivizing reviews in specific geolocations, where we need more content) or by businesses (for spreading awareness) - an example for businesses would be a Beer Company wants to have more reviews of specific restaurants where they sell or promote their beer. Or restaurant chain wants more exposure and reviews of their restaurants in some specific city.

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Quote from: Onatarmedracen on January 26, 2018, 03:47:57 AM

"A user can act both as A reviewer and a curator at the same time."
In this case, will the curator be limited to the evaluation of his video? Does this happen in automatic mode? How is the fairness of evaluation guaranteed?

Hi!

That's a good question. Curator will typically just upvote and downvote reviews. He will not be able to do that on his own post.

Fairness of evaluation is guaranteed with the following facts:
- Trusted users will have more voting power (high level accounts)
- The upvote power shall be adapted to the behaviour of each user (if you watch 10 videos and do 10 upvotes, your voting power should not be as high, as someone who gave 1 upvote to the best of 100 watched videos)
- We'll have phone verification at account creation to prevent as much bots being created as possible
- Fraudulent accounts (upvoting spammers, bots that get through,..) will be traced by our AI finding behavioral patterns for such accounts, before the reward is given (there is a time period after the review is created, when the community has their say about the review). We're very glad to have an experienced AI expert in our team, they are very rare to find these days.

Futourist

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Quote from: culvert.1986 on January 25, 2018, 04:43:04 PM

"CURATOR
The curator is a registered user that reads the content and uses upvotes/downvotes to evaluate his/her chosen
reviews. A user can act both as a reviewer and a curator at the same time. The user must register on Futourist in
order to receive the rewards. "

How do I understand the curator can be any user of the platform? Or it will be necessary to pass the selection.?

Hi!

The Curator is just a role, not really an account type. Every registered user can be a curator. They can upvote, downvote or report a review. But, since there are more trusted and less trusted people on the platform, we're introducing an account Level. The higher Level curators will have more voting power and will get higher rewards (still much lower than the reviewer). This way we prevent a lot of potential frauds.

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