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I don't understand this obsession with solving everything with money. It doesn't event solve this problem, just because someone payed the fee doesn't mean their
by newswasboring 4y ago
I don't understand this obsession with solving everything with money. It doesn't event solve this problem, just because someone payed the fee doesn't mean their code is not spam. You can't keep the fee small enough and still dissuade spammers.
- alkonaut 4y agoYou can do reputation, or money, or some "proof of work". Or you can do all of them. But money is by far the easiest one to implement. You could e.g. either require the votes of 3 separate maintainers of packages totaling 100k downloads in order to upload a new package, or you could have a $10 fee. The reason money is natural is because there is a cost associated with manually vetting all packages.
- newswasboring 4y agoEverything is easy if all you care about the KPIs your system performs well in. Making any system with money is easy if you don't care about equality or fairness.