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By curating proposal, you increase the value of the overall blockchain, by rewarding good research. And also earn ETIs from the curration reward (~3000 ETI per week).

In a way, Etica will become a “proof of research” model since all new inflation will gradually lower the reward for miners and researchers more and more. This is why it is essential to vote in an intelligent way if we want great things to be accomplished with the Etica Protocol.

From Kevin W: “

Remember when voting on proposals you have 2 incentives as a Etica holder.

On the one hand there is an incentive to accept best proposals because this is what brings value to the protocol.

But on the other hand there is also an incentive to reject proposals that are not result of a minimum effort and hard work. In fact otherwise, people that submit such proposals with low effort will dump the coin as soon as they get it because it was easy money or effortless money.
The voters of the network have a responsibility to not hesitate to reject proposals. If getting a proposal accepted is too easy then it creates a door to mint ETI easily and there is no incentive to mine neither, why spend energy on what others can get with no effort.

So keep this in mind, the protocol should not be afraid to be ruthless with proposals, the harder it is the more work people will put in their proposals submissions. The protocol doesn’t need to accept all proposals nor the majoritiy of proposals.

The community can reject most proposals until quality meets its demand. If Etica becomes very selective, this will increase what we call the impact factor on the long term and publishing on Etica could become even more imprtant for researchers than publishing on notorious journals. Because journals have 3 max reviewers while Etica will have thousands or hundred thousands reviewers.”

Open-source science is a collaborative, and interdisciplinary approach to research, promoting transparency, access to information, reproducibility, and the open sharing of data while fostering the development of open communities, citizen science participation, open-source software utilization, and open-access publishing, all with a strong emphasis on ethical considerations, global impact, and the democratization of scientific knowledge.

Etica voting guidelines:

The purpose of peer review is to act as a filter to ensure research is properly verified before being approved, and thus who will be receiving funds, the goal being to improve the quality of research and the impact of Etica.

First question: Is the person submitting the proposal the author of the work? Etica is all about open science, but plagiarized papers should not receive funds, especially if they don’t reward the original author. This lowers the value of coins being distributed since they don’t have a real impact.

Some questions to ask yourself before voting:

• Who submitted the proposal? (Ultimately the person getting rewarded)
  • Are they the author?
  • Is the person submitting also an (co)author
  • Is it a group? A DAO? An individual?…
• When was it done/when is it planned to be done?
  • Is there a follow-up, when?
• How will the funds be used?

Question when reading the proposal:

• Research Significance:
  • Is the research question significant to the scientific community?
  • Is the paper original, contributing to knowledge?
• Citations:
  • Are the citations comprehensive and properly credited?
• Methodology:
  • Is the experimental design appropriate?
  • Is data collection well-explained?
  • Can others replicate the research?
  • Were sampling and materials described adequately?
• Ethical Considerations:
  • Is ethical approval obtained when required?
  • Is patient consent and anonymization ensured?
  • Are local ethical committees or standards followed?
  • For animal experiments, are relevant care and use laws adhered to?

Other questions to ask yourself:

• Does the article you are being asked to review match your expertise?
• Do you have time to review the paper?
• Potential conflicts of interest

You should not care about style, grammar or spelling unless it makes the paper confusing. Is the paper easy to understand, simple language to make it easy to understand, but with expertise.

Don’t forget to reveal your vote to not lose staked ETIs. Let me know if you want to add anything on this.

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