# Read this before posting

**URL:** <https://research.allora.network/t/read-this-before-posting/5>\
**Category:** Allora General\
**Created:** [April 29, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://research.allora.network/t/read-this-before-posting/5 "2024-04-29T20:39:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/uploads/allora/original/1X/983a8e708f4861376b1084780c9929b4aaa599f8.png) [@system](https://research.allora.network/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://research.allora.network/t/read-this-before-posting/5/1 "2024-04-29T20:39:05Z")

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We are so glad you joined the Allora Research community.

> ## Allora Research
> 
> An semi-public forum for Allora research

This is a semi-public forum for participating in Allora’s research efforts, including but not limited to:

- Inference Synthesis: focus on the ongoing development of Allora’s inference synthesis mechanism, including expanding its applicability beyond supervised regression tasks, optimizing parameters, and creating higher-order products;
- Applications: research on developing specific applications that uniquely benefit from a source of collective intelligence. This includes general AI/ML model development, identifying suitable use cases, and areas where Allora’s Network excels;
- Economics: everything related to the development of Allora’s incentive structure, including reward distribution among participants and tasks, and may also include research related to tokenomics;
- Consensus: research related to Allora’s consensus mechanisms, including defining, quantifying, and organizing consensus for network validators and reputers;
- Execution: research on the development and operation of Allora, including monitoring network performance, operations, and practical elements like model deployment;
- Data: development and acquisition of suitable data for Allora, focusing on finding and refining data sets for use within the ecosystem.

This is not the place for:

- Generic Allora discussions or technical support questions  
 → please use our [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/allora).
- Creating a knowledge base or how-to guides  
 → please submit a pull request with your contribution to the [Github repo](https://github.com/allora-network/docs/).
- Sharing opinions or engaging in low-content banter  
 → please use social media or appropriate discussion channels on [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/allora).

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🗣 **Introduce yourself** by adding your picture and information about yourself and your interests to [your profile](https://research.allora.network/my/preferences/account).

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**Author:** ![Apollo11](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/research.allora.network/apollo11/32/354_2.png) [@Apollo11](https://research.allora.network/u/Apollo11)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://research.allora.network/t/read-this-before-posting/5/2 "2024-07-01T14:50:46Z")

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