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Yes, if you are getting paid by someone you should do what they ask of you, especially when it's something sensible.

Most Rust contributors are not Mozilla employees. Even in the core team, 3 of 9 members weren't (as of 2017, may be different today),

It is 3 of 9 today as well. (In 2017 it was higher!)

So if I give you a dollar you'll stop commenting?

If you were paying me to comment and you wanted me to stop commenting, yes definitely.

I could go my own way and comment for free (as I already do) and then I would be able to do whatever I wanted.

But as long as I am funded by you, yes I should do what you ask of me.

Wouldn't you have a choice between continuing to get paid or continuing to comment? And what if I already knew your decision would be to stop getting paid and quit HN but I still needed you to continue being on HN because your presence here was valuable to me? Would that not mean that I'm paying you, but I can't force you to do anything without harming myself much more than you?

Haven't you heard? Nuance isn't a thing anymore. All decisions are binary. Get with the times.

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