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The original concept was to scale via the open and self-administered community itself while keeping a hands off approach to all other aspects. Truly just a simple network of solid folks and not a product trying to solve every problem (though I imagine it could be productized). The hope was that by only letting in solid freelancers that these items could be handled by the freelancers themselves without too much worry about getting screwed over or hassling one another.

You bring up a valid concern about the race to the bottom, which is exactly one of the things I want to avoid. The thought around the minimum rate information was to inform others about what type of level of compensation one would need to even consider work. I think I might rework this right now and also inform folks that only developers with rates above XYZ are allowed.