It's hard work - the way you incentivize hard working people is with... money.
If they weren't being paid well, the same cohort complaining would cry nepotism because "they can only do this work because their parents are footing the bill". Which ironically, is what most capital hill staffers resort to since $30k doesn't go very far in DC.
If this remains in the front page, I suppose whoever deployed such a tool will quickly adapt. Distribution of flag requests over time might prove interesting.