And we really appreciate it! (Lord, do I have a rant about the VC mode and how it screws everyone over.) We saw a lot of people calling us idealists when we started, and they meant it in a "unrealistic expectations and attitudes towards what's possible " kind of way, but I decided at the time that we'd wear the idealist label proudly, because the internet *needs* more idealists and the ideal of "services should view their users as a community, not the product being sold" is something we need a lot more of. So thank you for getting that, and for believing in us enough to help us keep that ideal a reality.
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