"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 there.

Gamification pratices will be used across the app.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND BADGES
Achievements are milestones a user can complete. They give the user a future goal within the app and therefore
increases the user retention. Example achievements: “First to review a park in Berlin”, “Reviewed 20 places in 1
week”, “Curated 1000+ reviews”, “No. 1 reviewer in January”, etc.
Users will collect digital badges for doing something special. Digital badges are going to be displayed publicly on
user accounts. Achievements and badge collection are proven gamification mechanics. The point of them is to
boost users engagement, give users a purpose and just make the app more fun to use.
Apart from the achievements users may get additional badges like “Early supporter” for all of you reading our
whitepaper and being amongst the first supporters-.

LEVELS
Account level represents the state and trust of this account and is visible publicly. Users level up their accounts
by contributing to the platform in various ways (posting reviews, curating, reporting, creating guides…). High
level accounts get more respect from the community and getting to a high level unlocks additional features only
available to the most trusted reviewers. Levels is another proven gamification technique that incentivizes the user
to contribute more.

ONBOARDING
Nobody likes learning, that’s why the onboarding phase (tutorial phase) is one of the key points in user experience
where users must not be intimidated by the app. Game development industry has found various ways of implementing
tutorials without players even feeling like they are in a tutorial, but rather that they’re just playing the
game as it is. We’ll make the initial onboarding phase clear and easy, without much textual instructions.

Hi!

The answer is that the most of the leftover funds will be spent on building the community, which is the key to success of a such consumer-oriented platform. Don't forget that having a very small hardcap still presents a huge potential for an increase of the FTR token price once it hits exchanges. Still.. You are not the first one requesting a larger portion of the token supply to be available in the crowdsale. Stay tuned, we're making a big announcement about our crowdsale model next week, and I think the changes we will implement are going to please you in this sense!

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

Hi!

Yes, besides the internal circular economy inside the platform, there is a loop where our token will go through the token exchanges as well. Eveyone will be able to spend FTR on the platform and get some benefits in return. But the loop I am talking about focuses on Businesses buying tokens on exchanges and spending it on the platform. Still, have in mind that every user (not just businesses) will be able to spend tokens on Futourist - buying offers the businesses are posting, subscribing to influencers, playing travel lotto and other features of the platform. So every user gets benefits by buying FTR on an exchange.

There is no allocation of tokens for this. The demand made by businesses will be satisfied by the supply offered on exchanges. If not, the token price will rise, which is good for all of you crowdsale investors.

Hi!

Yes, definitely! The accommodation providers (hotels etc.) will be able to post simple offers - e.g. "Spend a night in a double-bed room for 800 FTR". A user will be able to accept the offer with a click or two.

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.

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.

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.

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.