Greetings from South Florida, USA. Utopia Educators is proud to be a part of this new (revolutionary) member run media platform you all have been a part of. I would first like to thank all the Developers who made this possible after the Steem disaster, also thanks to the Hivers 
My name is John Lambrechts. I am a DevOps consultant as my career. I am 30 years old and started Utopia Educators at the end of March 2020. I am 25 in this picture, I am still a sexy Linux man somehow, we exist girls... I digress.
Some interesting facts about me:
All our authors are around the world, you can find more about them reading the author page on our website. Their posts are also available on this account. Our logo was designed by Muhammed Atlas voluntarily because he was so appreciative of my support of his writings.
Each author will be getting a 80% reward from their posts, 20% goes to UtopiaEducators account. Do note that they have already been paid by me generously. All of my author's have received an average of about $9/post for posting to Utopia Educators. I am in the process of onboarding every user to Hive, all active author's of our awesome team will have a Hive account I will be sending their rewards to. I will be doing a monthly report.
Now let me tell you a little about how I found so many smart young people with dedication and enthusiasm to write with me. I simply recognized their respect around Discord where I mostly go to collaborate with Open Source projects and meeting people.
Then after talking to them, realizing their respect and intelligence, I asked them if they would be interested or have any skills in writing? Some did not have perfect skills, but I paid them anyways in hopes I could coach them. I have found some plagiarism issues with a couple authors and have given all but 1 a second chance to succeed, removing the article and having them completely start over. Banning the one repeat offender.
We have revamped our Posting procedures and will be APA citing every factual article as well as curating internally.
The other curator besides me is 
So far the following author's are on Hive, look out for their introductions in the coming days! Much appreciated from the bottom of our hearts!
@msa11 - Shahin
Unfortunately one of our blurb posts ( we were initially posting blurbs and directing to the website [no more of that, sorry!]) was flagged as a direct translation without the source linked. On our website however, the source was linked. I have deleted the post as I don't like directly translated articles getting rewards, and neither do you, unacceptable and we are in the process of being vetted by Hivewatchers. I will do everything to gain the reputation of my hard working author team back, and we will.
We are in the process of editing each post to have sources and references cited on our main site. I'm sure some of you have had the Hivewatcher's stab in the heart upon joining, please work with all members of their team respectfully, they have a lot on their plates. Unfortunately based on our author @MSA posting so diligently they were too quick to permanently blacklist us as it looked like a bot. We were posting every 5-7 minutes per Hive.Blog to our personal blog, whoops! I should NOT have done that.
The resolution we have come to with Hivewatcher's is to post slowly our BEST posts 2x per day max until our reputation is gained back.
Also our posts were written and posted by our author's and we are not mass bot plagiarizers, we would appreciate your support. Please look forward to all our author's posts on this account. And remember please, the author will get 80% payout with a Monthly report to Hive.
I apologize for the horrible entrance with the massive amount of posts, we will be abiding by all expectations for quality posts of all diverse kinds.
NOW WE ARE TALKING!
Warm Regards, and rock on!
John Lambrechts & Team
