Perverse Incentive

... how is that an example of perverse incentive? It did cause annoyance in the community, but has the popularity of open source declined? Are less people engaged since then? Or do we see less contributions?

Maybe so, but the paragraph doesn't even make a smallest claim about that.

Re: Perverse Incentive

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Post by echoangle » Sat, May 25, 2024, 11:21 PM UTC

playingalong wrote: post #4

neoecos wrote: post #3

Hacktoberfest in the examples... Lol

While I certainly recall the turmoil around HF in 2020 and subsequent years... ... how is that an example of perverse incentive? It did cause annoyance in the community, but has the popularity of open source declined? Are less people engaged since then? Or do we see less contributions? Maybe so, but the paragraph doesn't even make a smallest claim about that.

Well the point of promising the shirts was helping open source projects, but the incentive caused people to make bad pull requests, and actually caused unnecessary work for maintainers. So the incentive which was supposed to help open source projects actually harmed them. Isn’t that a good example of perverse incentives?