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BadMoonRosin on August 24th, 2019 at 12:46 UTC »
If I'm following this correctly, this is hardly even a software project.
This is some random person's ESLint config file, and thin wrapper script for launching ESLint.
He gave it a name and website, clearly designed to give people the misleading impression that it is part of JavaScript. "Official", "authoritative", "endorsed", etc... instead of just some random person's config file for a 3rd-part lint tool.
He's now pumping advertisements to developers' shell terminals. Making thousands of dollars off this ESLint config file, without sharing a dime of that revenue with the upstream ESLint developers who actually deserve it.
This is skeezy as hell... fuck everything ABOUT this guy. I'm really disappointed in all the supportive comments, here and in that GitHub issue thread. I know that being contrarian often makes us feel smart, but sometimes a spade simply is a spade.
crabbytag on August 24th, 2019 at 12:02 UTC »
This reminds me of the early years of the web when websites were looking for funding. At that time, adding a banner or two brought in revenue. People were clicking out of sheer novelty effect. But as it became more widespread, people started ignoring it. Then websites had to resort to more aggressive ads - animated banners, pop-ups, pop-unders. When those started getting blocked, they moved to advanced tracking.
The maintainer is getting $2000 for these banners because no one else is displaying ads there. Once other library authors notice this opportunity, they'll start adding ads too. Then the average payout comes down. But since we've already accepted ads here, some authors will include more annoying ads for slightly more money. For example, 2x the payout if the developer is required to take some action ('press enter to unpause the build) and 3x if the action is more annoying ('type out "Linode rocks" to unpause the build).
pubcrawlerdtes on August 24th, 2019 at 11:40 UTC »
If ads started showing up in my build logs, I would be extremely concerned. I can't possibly see how the author expects this to go well.