I think the new guidelines are a good path in the right direction, but "perfect spelling" as a prerequisite would disqualify 60-80% of the good or even excellent posts from the outset.

Good grammar, perfect spelling and appropriate tone and style all add to the quality of your work.

As an open source contributor and developer with over 20 years of experience in the company business and the open source field, I know it will be even more complicated to be honored with an upvote at all. Especially for non-native English speakers and will continue to reduce the willingness to participate in this excellent project.

Even with a translator you will never achieve a "perfect spelling", at most a "nearly perfect spelling" is possible. Such impossible-to-reach targets will push the Utopian project even further towards a picture-upvote bot.

Why do I think that? Because this is evident from the statistics in the post https://busy.org/@utopian-io/weekly-top-of-utopian-io-may-31-june-6 and is clearly visible.

Without a more detailed analysis of the submitted and up-voted content, the numbers speak a clear language:

I. Only each ~ 4.2 post in the bug-hunting category was honored with an upvote, but each ~ 1.69 post in the graphics category.

II. The top weekly bug-hunter was "only" honored with about a $ 20 upvote per accepted post, but multiple submissions for the same task request were rewarded up to $ 100 in the graphics category. And I was only looking at 3 of the sent images for one task.

III. To stay in numbers 47 rewarded bug-hunting contributions with a payout of 1118.49 STU against 52 rewarded graphics contribution with a total payout of 4496.56 STU. This is more than factor 4 in earning for nearly the same numbers of contributions.

Do not get me wrong, all of the submitted contributions have more than well deserved to get an upvote for their time and content. All of the 3 mentioned images deserves even more upvote money for their work. But the weighting of the time spent is not rightly observed in the current guidelines as can be seen in the upvotes.

In order to discover a bug, write a good issue report in an open source project, write a long and good contribution in Utopian and provide explanations is very time consuming. Contrary to a logo design task, where one does not need approximately as much text in the contribution as in most other categories.

So it's clear that if you want to be honored by the Utopian project for your time spent, you should be a graphic designer in the current state. Which is sad.