What is the role of the publisher? I think there are many ways to publish things nowadays... Is the publisher responsible for peer review? Or how does that system work?
We've chosen PayPal, because of few very cool features:
1. It supports B2B payments. We us this model, because we don't want to keep your money. Whenever you want to tip somebody you do it directly to that person.
2. You can still receive money even without being a member of PayPal. If you are not a member and somebody makes a payment to you, PayPal sends an email asking you to register and receive your money.
3 It's very simple for you (you just need to put an email address).
would you tip an oncologist who gave you a second opinion for free? Nope. You would just be very grateful.
- basically, this is a reason why it's called "Tipping culture", when you go to a restaurant you have a choice to pay or not pay a waitress there, and nobody can force you to leave tips, right? - But, usually people don't say, that the service was super nice and that's all :( normally they leave tips.
Here, it's the same. Previously, you didn't have an ability to pay developers who helped you and now you have it, so it's up to you to pay or not to pay. It's all voluntary.