Research peer review channel: credit

Credit essentially measures participation and activity of users. Its main purpose is to deter spammers or trollers, effectively regulation the community.

Comments on forum posts in the research peer review channel can be upvoted or downvoted, with each corresponding to +1 and -1 credit, respectively. Below a certain negative threshold of credit, users will be temporarily prohibited from posting messages in the channels as punishment. Positive credit has no advantage, just keeps the user’s permissions in various channels

Research peer review channel: $SAI

As the core token of SAI.DAO, $SAI represents a user’s active and meaningful contribution to the community.

Before a peer review thread (eg. research topic, proposal, project etc.) is posted into the forum, it is processed by a bot that queries reward, topic, description, among other details. OP (original poster) will create a $SAI reward, and once the thread is posted the $SAI will be transferred out of their account into the SAI.DAO treasury.

OP can choose to reward comments/advice they deemed valuable with the $SAI they had stored in the treasury. After 7 days if OP deems there have been no useful feedback and has awarded nobody, the $SAI in the treasury will be destroyed.

Mentor outreach channel: $SAI

Once a student user has reached a certain threshold of $SAI (indicating a high level of valuable contribution in the community), the mentor outreach channel will be unlocked for the user. Students can then create, via a bot, a forum thread for their research project. Details will include a monetary reward, $SAI reward, details about the research, desired help etc. To ensure that rewards of $SAI are consistent for quality of guidance, total reward will be a set amount (eg. 20 $SAI). Again, the $SAI will be stored in a treasury once a student confirms a transaction with a mentor.

After the research guidance process has ended or the student has finished their research, they can choose to reward the mentor $SAI as a percentage of the stored $SAI. For example, a helpful mentor might receive 19 out of the 20 $SAI, whereas an unhelpful one would receive perhaps 7. This way, $SAI in the mentors’ wallet represents their quality of research guidance, as well as their research expertise and knowledge.

Progress peer review channel: $SAI

$SAI here is used to incentivize mentors and highly qualified pupils to evaluate and measure the amount of guidance a pupil has received from their mentor. The pupil can submit their materials and transaction history to the forum, establishing a $SAI reward. All evaluators in this channel have been proven to abide to community rules and thus the reward is distributed evenly among those who provide evaluation. This way, qualified members of the community are incentivized to promote transparency in the research guidance process.