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Indeed, a request for a short video call filters out most of the people who are looking to pad their resume with LLM-automated contributions, while adding an extra layer of welcome to genuine newbies who want to join the community.

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Maybe to neurotypical newbies. To others it's going to be a giant "fuck off".

I can only speak from my perspective, as someone who's lightly neurospicy with a good serving of crippling social anxiety on top, but having to jump on a quick discord call with the maintainer of a project I was excited about wouldn't be a deterrent to me.

Yes it sucks, but it's better than not regulating whatsoever, and at least this way I could be more certain my contributions didn't get drowned out.

For our situation, building a foundation of trust in our community is more important than attracting as many contributors as possible. If a one-time face-to-face introduction is infeasible, then there are many other projects to contribute to. (And this is considering that our community is all math PhDs, cryptographers, and compiler engineers; we are no strangers to neurodiversity.)

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