Sorry, but this seems like a privileged solution.
Let's say you're a one-of-a-kind kid that already is making useful contributions, but $1 is a lot of money for you, then suddenly your work becomes useless?
It feels weird to pay for providing work anyway. Even if its LLM gunk, you're paying to work (let alone pay for your LLM).
It is a privileged solution. And a stupid one, too. Because $1 is worth a lot more for someone in India, than someone in USA. If you want to implement this more fairly, you'd be looking at something like GDP or BBP plus geolock. Streaming services perfected this mechanism already.
Not that word, in the context of contributing to an open source project that you're likely already benefiting from.
ie, if you want to contribute code, you must also contribute financially.
You get it refunded
The default could should be to refund.
That would make not-refunding culturally crass unless it was warranted.
With manual options for:
0. (Default, refund)
1. (Default refund) + Auto-send discouragement response. (But allow it.)
2. (Default refund) + Block.
3. Do not refund
4. Do not refund + Auto-send discouragement response.
5. Do not refund + Block.
6. Do not refund + Block + Report SPAM (Boom!)
And typically use $1 fee, to discourage spam.
And $10 fee, for important, open, but high frequency addresses, as that covers the cost of reviewing high throughput email, so useful email did get identified and reviewed. (With the low quality communication subsidizing the high quality communication.)
The latter would be very useful in enabling in-demand contact doors to remain completely open, without being overwhelmed. Think of a CEO or other well known person, who does want an open channel of feedback from anyone, ideally, but is going to have to have someone vet feedback for the most impactful comments, and summarize any important trend in the rest. $10 strongly disincentives low quality communication, and covers the cost of getting value out of communication (for everyone).
$10 will be a honeypot for scammers.
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