I'm very anti-bounty. Esp for large projects. If I see a bounty it gets added to my list of stuff not to work on at this point.
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Can you elaborate why exactly?
Sure,
Bounties discourage collaboration, as devs are 'competing' for the bounty vs working together. I don't want to compete, I want to collaborate. Bounties put pressure on to develop as fast as possible just to claim the bounty. Bounties don't provide an incentive to continue a project once they're claimed. Bounties are vague and there is a very high chance of not satisfying the 'requirements' that are loosely defined.
Most bounties that are successful are small feature requests on existing software and usually completed by the author of the project.
Love it! Colaboration is crucial and is oftenly disincetivized across many fields (academia, coding, governance, etc.). Humanity lacks a communication standard that would incentivize colaboration within and across communities in the whole infosphere (be it physical or digital realm)
Thats why we are working on a protocol which we among ourselves like to label as "coop tool" so i dig your approach❤️