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Re:GitHub Sponsors by C4stor on Thursday May 23, 2019 @10:02AM (#19991860)
How many sponsoring circles have you detected already ?

I can't believe people able to be sponsored aren't doing background stuff to make sure they get free $5K a month from github, since it's a simple as doing a reciprocal sponsoring.

Heck, anyone with a bit too much cash can just offer to be payed to sponsor, let's say you give me 1 unit, I sponsor 0,9 upon payment, you get 1,8 from github.

TL;DR : really surprised you went with matching sponsoring, aren't you worried about this, is this just cost of doing business, or are you actively detecting it ? (and how if discloseable ?)

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Re:GitHub Sponsors by smudgymcscmudge on Thursday May 23, 2019 @10:26AM (#19992081)
GitHub is vetting applicants. If they do get hoodwinked, they are at least getting hoodwinked into giving money to somebody they thought was doing worthwhile work to begin with.
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Re:GitHub Sponsors by C4stor on Thursday May 23, 2019 @10:59AM (#19992362)
So your hypothesis is that they'd rather assume this potential cost for the sake of publicity ?

Also, in the "paid to sponsor" scenario they'd be hoodwinke into giving money both to someone worthwhile and someone totally unknown to them. I'd be really curious to know the technical or legal possibles responses.

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Re:GitHub Sponsors by TimothyBJacobs on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:31AM (#19992649)
The whole concept of giving away matching funds is for publicity.
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Re:GitHub Sponsors by C4stor on Thursday May 23, 2019 @12:27PM (#19993161)
That's a good point actually, I suppose it doesn't indeed really matters to them where it goes as long as they can say "we gave X to open source projects", X probably being already defined.
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