Unfortunately grifters have all the more incentive to be saccharine-- they want something from you.
Many OSS projects moved off freenode (including some I was involved in) specifically because Lilo was pulling donors into chant and trying to convince them to fund freenode instead of the oss project they were on freenode to discuss. It was really sleazy and created a lot of well earned bad blood.
I don't think I ever saw anyone too irritated that lilo spent some donations on his living expenses.
> Unfortunately grifters have all the more incentive to be saccharine-- they want something from you.
Not only that, but for people who get by through exploitation of trust, doing anything to attract scrutiny from anyone generally doesn't work in your favor.
Many OSS projects moved off freenode (including some I was involved in) specifically because Lilo was pulling donors into chant and trying to convince them to fund freenode instead of the oss project they were on freenode to discuss. It was really sleazy and created a lot of well earned bad blood.
I don't think I ever saw anyone too irritated that lilo spent some donations on his living expenses.