For some reason this reminds me of the debacle [0][1] where some site was accepting "tips" from users who wanted to support any GitHub project of their choosing

For some reason this reminds me of the debacle [0][1] where some site was accepting "tips" from users who wanted to support any GitHub project of their choosing. They did it without explicit opt-in of the project owners (Armin Ronacher in this case). Quote [2]: > But nevertheless i think tip4commit should be opt-in instead, > because i consider the current tactic to be a very intrusive form of growth-hacking. [0] https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/127 https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/127 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969 [2] https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/127#issuecomment-60149031 https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/127#issuecom...