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azan_today at 12:53 AM2 repliesview on HN

People should get paid for reviewing. That’s the solution. Publishing companies rack in billions of dollars in pure profit exploring free labor. Once people actually get paid for reviewing, it becomes much faster and higher quality and you won’t need AI triage.


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tollgategittoday at 6:51 AM

Alternatively, put the pressure on the incoming requests for review.

Pay a deposit to have your work reviewed, if it's accepted as a good faith submission, the deposit is returned minus a minimal, irrelevant fee, if it is deemed in bad faith, take all of the deposit as a time-waste tax. With enough cases going wrong, the flood of slop slows down and maintainers have to pull the trigger as often.

This was the solution several people had proposed for Git issues, but none that I know of took the plunge. I really think curl should have done that.

Sharlintoday at 3:21 AM

Doesn’t work anymore because people would just have ChatGPT generate their reviews and get paid for doing nothing.

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