I'm purely focusing on the effectiveness of the measure keeping the open-source ecosystem alive, not discussing much about fairness.
replyThe current contributors are already massively skewed towards people with more ressources and time and 75% of the world, so I do not expect a sharp decrease in contributions.
It also creates wrong expectations. If I pay you (even if it is $1) then I expect you to take a look at my slop and argue with me how to make it better. Just closing it will prove that you're a scammer (and not even a successful one, because you'll get at most $5 altogether).
replySo then charge more. It’s still a resource allocation problem, and economics still works.
reply> If I pay you (even if it is $1) then I expect you to take a look at my slop
replyYes, proportional to the amount paid.
> and argue with me how to make it better.
No.