Commercial Services

I think there is a genuine need of bigger projects which free helpers are unwilling to take on, for which people are willing to pay.

I also think the proposed mechanism is not going to work. Particularly ref: (1) ridiculously short lifetime of 'credits' (2) incongruity of bolting commercial services onto a free forum (3) arbitrary pricing mechanism. Although there are other weaknesses.

Incidentally, I also dislike the proposal and the communication which hasn't accompanied it.


PS
Lastly, in my work I'm forever correcting business issues driven by confusing seniority with capability. Some people are brilliant jerks, whilst others are less sharp in both senses of the word. (I am not saying these are the only two types of person). Confusing this simple concept makes for useless senior engineers (or equivalent) and disastrous team managers. Conflating Mod with capability is a similar error.