[phantomathkg]

This means someone with tons of money can spam anyone repo, while the lower income people cannot raise as many PR or speak as much as the filthy rich.

[johnnyanmac]

The incentives are way off too. Now you have a financial incentive as a maintainter to throw out normally well meaning PR's as "bad".

[judahmeek]

...which is balanced out by all the other incentives that have the maintainer currently contributing unpaid time & effort.

[collingreen]

Which is true now as well, but at least the cost is more than zero