Well, don’t go for half measures then - if GUI handholding is worthless crap for incompetent losers, demand people use telnet from a command line and type the binary network protocol themselves. That’s the only way that you’ll limit contributions to true uber-geeks.
People who will never get laid even if they try to pay for it are definately the best people to ask questions about how to design software that will actually appeal to the mass market.