> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://token-engineering-commons.gitbook.io/tec-handbook/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://token-engineering-commons.gitbook.io/tec-handbook/archive/archived-content/praise-and-impact-hours.md).

# Praise & Impact Hours

The Praise system as the TEC currently uses it evolved out of the [Giveth](http://giveth.io) communities’ experiments with [Reward DAO](https://medium.com/giveth/how-rewarddao-works-aka-what-are-points-7388f70269a) and the [Commons Stack’s iteration](https://wiki.commonsstack.org/contributors-guide) on the system.\
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**Purpose:** It rewards contributions in the build phase of the Token Engineering Commons (and to a lesser extent the efforts of the Token Engineering and Commons Stack communities) with Tokens at the end of Token Engineering Commons Hatch phase. These rewards are similar to a team allocation in other token economies, but done via a unique signal aggregation approach intended to achieve many goals:

* Acknowledge and Reward Contributions.
* Create a culture of gratitude.
* Instigate decentralized updates about work being done.
* Distribute early Governance rights widely.
* Give feedback on what work is valued by the community.

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**How to Praise:** When a community member notices that someone has done something to help the community, they can “dish praise” to that community member by sending a message that starts with “!praise” in discord or “!dish praise to/for” in Telegram acknowledging who made what contribution.\
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**How Praise is quantified to Impact Hours:** Every 2 weeks, Praise is [aggregated into a spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qvmwwlUHnQWYc2JQRoE1Qo_IKx6a4CI9ehWIMvkiqFc/edit#gid=556261413) and quantified openly by community members into Impact Hours which will be converted into tokens during the Hatch. Read more about the quantification process in [this forum post](https://forum.tecommons.org/t/praise-quantification-update-and-proposals/144). Each Impact Hour can be attributed to a Praise, creating a rich data set that is [being analyzed](https://forum.tecommons.org/t/pre-hatch-impact-hours-distribution-analysis/376/15?u=griff) by data scientists to see which actions were rewarded and how much, and community members, to assess the system to see if it fits the goals of the community. 

**Voting Type:** Democratic do-ocracy, very low barrier to dish praise. Quantification however is reserved for senior community members that have a broad view of the project.\
Future Modifications: Create an app for quantification, integrate source cred (nearly complete), consider universal basic income rewards and many further modifications will likely arise from current data analysis and research.

**Signalling Interval:** Continuous <br>