tommydrum

Do they loan, or can you bring your own dolly to help with that?

This would indeed be a slippery slope. While we would see where the money is being spent (in terms of talent required to develop features), we wouldn't see what they are actually working on if there was a big donation for a certain feature or just "more manpower for a certain AMA".

An easy solution is just to use JIRA and open view access to us. Uservoice could also fit in to request features, but that may not be the best idea, as tools needing developed have both Reddit users and moderators as the client of their software (as well as theirselves for self-improvement), and uservoice would hugely incentivice end user experience, which usually means more tech-debt and moderators work remaining un-automated.

We'd basically want to elect or hire a scrum master that represents both the end user experience and internal experience to maximize value as a whole.

Depending how deep in the rabbit hole mods want to go for transparency, open-sourcing their code would (squashing commits for a feature level, so we don't criticise on an individual's performance, as we all have good and bad days) would be a great idea. This can also apply to the infrastructure, as programmatically managing infrastructure is becoming the standard (with products like Puppet). Obviously you wouldn't want to open source data like server names (keep that in Hiera), open sourcing the configuration management would have further transparency to the contributors.

While I definitely appreciate you donating your time and skills.. you should get a cut. At least "extra pocket money" :)

I really wouldn't want to store my life savings in Bitcoin.. while it's looking absolutely amazing right now, it's far too unpredictable :(