FWIW I agree you walk the line of value:exposure-for-the-product and come out on the right side here. But I'd also say "I'm sorry if the post made you feel thi

FWIW I agree you walk the line of value:exposure-for-the-product and come out on the right side here. But I'd also say "I'm sorry if the post made you feel this way" comes off as passive-aggressive - which I don't think was your intent just an unfortunate choice of words. Ultimately readers, particularly on HN, have their guard up at all times because of the prevalence of dark-patterns in startups and so even if OPs impression was mis-applied here it was still warranted in general.