I think you have valid concerns but we should wait and see how the steem community benefits from steem-ua as there is a lot of potential I think.

I do agree that it is essential that the rating system is fair and transparent and as such steem-ua should be open source. I got Scipio's reassurance that this will be the case so let's wait and see.

There is definitely some kind of a craze going on at the moment and I for one have delegated my only 300SPs to the project, not that it makes a big difference in the process.

I must say that the backing of utopian has played a big part in my decision to delegate. But hopefully we are not all being too naive.
I don't think utopian could sustain a position to support software that is not open, transparent and fair. So let's wait and see.

With over 200k SPs delegation steem-ua sees itself with great influence on the steem platform and for now I trust the guys behind steem-ua to use it wisely. I'll keep monitoring how they are doing.

I think @scipio should withdraw the comment about lightsteem and apologise for it. Regardless of the concerns raised about steem-ua it's inappropriate and not relevant to the topic of discussion.

Now let's all have a group hug!