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Please don't.


Pretty sincere comment. Taking options instead of cash seems like a really bad idea 99/100 times. Don't know why anyone would do it ever. Either you're a founder or you're not.


More things can make a comment bad than insincerity.


Well if the comment seemed gauche, it was meant to reflect my opinion of the discussion.

Otherwise, I just reviewed comment guidelines. Don't see what might merit the "please don't". Please don't... what?


"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation." Or, as we post frequently: Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

"My opinion of the discussion" is already off-topic and meta. Such comments are always worse than the discussions they're criticizing, while posing as somehow better, which makes them worse still. If you have a substantive point to make about the topic, state it straightforwardly; otherwise please refrain.


> straightforwardly

Alright. Point taken. Thanks for clarifying.




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