# Help

**URL:** https://discourse.sourcecred.io/c/community/help/25.md

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## [:sourcecred: About the Help category](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/about-the-help-category/408)

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**Author:** [@burrrata](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/burrrata)\
**Replies:** 0

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Get help with SourceCred related stuff :slight\_smile:

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## [What scopes do I need to set in the github access token?](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/what-scopes-do-i-need-to-set-in-the-github-access-token/1273)

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**Author:** [@dRAT3](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/dRAT3)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 30, 2021, 11:10am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/what-scopes-do-i-need-to-set-in-the-github-access-token/1273 "2021-10-30T11:10:00Z")

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Hi, new here, just setting up sourcecred for a DAO I’m creating. And I was wondering, what scopes I have to set in the github token? I’m using an organisation github to run sourcecred. Is just the read:org enough? I want…

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## [The Social Norms of Flowing Cred Questions (please answer!):sourcecred:](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/the-social-norms-of-flowing-cred-questions-please-answer/760)

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**Author:** [@Bex](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/Bex)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [June 16, 2020, 7:24am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/the-social-norms-of-flowing-cred-questions-please-answer/760 "2020-06-16T07:24:21Z")

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Description Hey folx! This list of questions and your answers are eventually going to become a resource document for people joining SourceCred (and a resource for those of us who still have questions, aka, me). If you co…

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## [Creating Documentation on GitHub, review culture](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/creating-documentation-on-github-review-culture/582)

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**Author:** [@s\_ben](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/s_ben)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [January 24, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/creating-documentation-on-github-review-culture/582 "2020-01-24T02:44:47Z")

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Per the thread on review culture (and associated pull request on the new /docs repo), we have reached rough consensus on a review process for important documents and associated “review culture” around that. More to come,…

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## [Some questions as a new comer](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/some-questions-as-a-new-comer/337)

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**Author:** [@Jessie](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/Jessie)\
**Replies:** 18\
**Last updated:** [January 28, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/some-questions-as-a-new-comer/337 "2020-01-28T16:23:38Z")

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Hi all! This is Jessie from China,very excited to join SC! Now i m also doing research and event in the space of DAO and i strongly thought how to review ppl’s contribution and give incentives based on the credit score/p…

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## [How to flow Cred to people with multiple accounts](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/how-to-flow-cred-to-people-with-multiple-accounts/461)

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**Author:** [@burrrata](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/burrrata)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [December 27, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/how-to-flow-cred-to-people-with-multiple-accounts/461 "2019-12-27T19:36:12Z")

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Been doing lots of research on DAOs over the years and decided to put it all in one place (a Discourse forum) so that people could engage with the material. https://daoresearch.trydiscourse.com The way the forum is set…

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## [How To SourceCred?](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/how-to-sourcecred/435)

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**Author:** [@burrrata](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/burrrata)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [December 22, 2019, 11:38am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/how-to-sourcecred/435 "2019-12-22T11:38:25Z")

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Over the winter break I’d like to dive into the SourceCred code and deploy a few instances of SourceCred for some Discourse and GitHub communities I’m part of. How do I do that and where should I get started? assuming …

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## [\`git-rescued\`: A New Service for SourceCred Contributors!](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/git-rescued-a-new-service-for-sourcecred-contributors/100)

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**Author:** [@decentralion](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/decentralion)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 5, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/git-rescued-a-new-service-for-sourcecred-contributors/100 "2019-05-05T17:36:03Z")

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The SourceCred project makes careful use of Git, particularly due to our love of making semantically atomic commits. However, doing this well requires a lot of knowledge of Git, and it can be intimidating/a blocker for t…