Autobounty?

[develop32]

On Wednesday, 4 December 2013 at 12:24:38 UTC, Shammah Chancellor 
wrote:
> I don't know if this was discussed in the recent bounty thread.
>  However,  I thought it might be neat if we were to setup our 
> own bounty website that parses the d bugzilla better and does 
> something that I've seen in many boardgames -- autobounty.
>
> My idea is this:  Allow people donate to D bounties in general, 
> and each day place add a small amount to the bounty of each 
> bug.   The longer bugs are open, the larger the bounty becomes.
>  Eventually it will become large enough to make it worth 
> someone's time to fix.   Right now, with around 4000 open bugs 
> in the bugzilla, this would be a lot of money each day, but 
> maybe D will eventually become popular enough to make the 
> bounties more than very small amounts.   Also, the benefit to 
> this is we can avoid the 10% fee that bountysource has.
>
> Thoughts?   I would be willing to write the code to do this in 
> vibe-d if there is interest.
>
> Personally, I'm willing to donate a good amount of money to 
> bounties, but I'd rather do it in the above format.
>
> -Shammah

Wouldn't that make people ignore fixing fresh bugs with no 
bounties accumulated?