Is "mohair" a registered geographical indicator?
Apshan's answer
No. Mohair refers to the fiber of Angora goats. It is not a GI-protected term in any jurisdiction.
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Before you ask.
Each validation task is a single fact in your domain. Apshan's draft answer plus the sources behind it. You confirm, correct, or flag for review. About five minutes per task. Take as many as you want, when you want. There is no quota and no deadline.
Credits are awarded per validated task and weighted by depth. Quick confirmations earn fewer credits than tasks that require sourcing or correction. The exact rate is set per profile during onboarding because expert disciplines differ in time-cost. You see the credit value of each task before you accept it.
Credits remain valid as long as you remain an active contributor. If you go inactive for an extended period, credits expire after a notice window. Active contributors never see expiry on their accumulated balance.
Yes. Validations enter a peer-review queue where another contributor in the same discipline checks the call before it ships into the database. One practitioner attests, a peer signs off, the validation enters our internal record. The answer reaches users without your name attached.
Yes. Contributors can request withdrawal of a validation at any time. The fact returns to the unvalidated queue, your validation is removed from our internal record, and the credit awarded for that validation is reversed. We never keep validations under coercion or after a request to remove.
No. Apshan keeps an internal record of every validation. Who. When. Why. So we can trace why an answer is right under context, and fix it when it isn't. There is no public contributor page, no leaderboard, no name stamped on facts. The work shows up in the accuracy of the instrument, not in your name on a wall. If you ever want public credit for a body of work, ask. We handle it case by case.
Domains that are downstream of fashion rather than within it. Pure weather forecasting, raw financial modeling, satellite imagery analysis. Apshan reads those automatically. The contributor program is for fashion-native knowledge: how a garment is constructed, how a buyer's quarter is read, how a critic frames a collection. If your expertise is not specifically fashion-native, the build partner program may be a better fit.
Yes. A light contributor agreement covers attribution, validation review, credit accounting, withdrawal rights, and a non-compete carveout that lets you keep working in your domain freely. The agreement is plain-English, two pages, and reviewable in advance of any conversation.
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