Comment by skrebbel

7 hours ago

Easily? You think the kind of people who think it makes sense to make bogus slop PRs are going to react reasonably to overburdened volunteer maintainers refusing to give them their US$10 back?

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rglullis  7 hours ago

Yes. Once a PR is rejected, contact from that bot is blocked. No appeals.

  • skrebbel  4 hours ago

    This is never going to work. Sufficiently many of these people are going to find maintainers' home addresses and send them death threats and the likes. If you see how badly some people flip out just because their PR is rejected, it's going to be much much worse if their PR is rejected and their money is taken.

    • rglullis  3 hours ago

      Ok. If I'm the maintainer receiving death threats over that, I'd tell them they would get the $10 dollars back, plus some extra money for their troubles.

      Location of the envelope with the money: the same police station where I'd reported the death threats.

  • rtdq  6 hours ago

    The worst case is that someone loses out on $10, no? How does this work if the maintainer is the swindler?

    • smaudet  6 hours ago

      I don't think that is a (very realistic) concern. AI is slop, the problem is not that the real contributors are struggling to get PRs merged.

      The bigger issue being, raising the bar to students who may have otherwise had productive careers (but education is a general issue, where the students don't even yet recognize they are being scammed).

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