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?
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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?