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by tollgategit 1 day ago
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.

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Isn’t that an incentive for the AI under every rock people (who don’t believe real people use em-dashes) to see AI everywhere and get paid for it?