There is nothing "rude" about asking HN to chime in on your exploratory-stage ideas, especially when they are uncommonly ambitious and not your average badgevil

There is nothing "rude" about asking HN to chime in on your exploratory-stage ideas, especially when they are uncommonly ambitious and not your average badgeville startup ideas. Face it, Foursquare is not going to fetch you a mercenary if you ever needed one. Why can group-mulling of ideas, be a terrific endeavor? 1) It can stress-test your idea and expose the glaringly gaping holes you might have overlooked, in the very fashioning of the prospect itself. 2)Some ideas may not lend to "socialization" because of their inherent nature. Helps to have them flagged -- if not decimated -- before you even begin. Eg: A startup seeking to disrupt the litigation law market isn't very readily socialize-able as one targeting the fitness trainer market. 3) The group-mulling process need not be just one-way beneficial. The "mullers" stand to benefit from having their horizons broadened too. They might for once realize, that there are entire industries -- non-glamorous but nonetheless high gravity, real-impact ones -- waiting to be disrupted beyond the Mayorvilles and Filtergrams of the valley. This kind of mulling happens on Quora all the time. HN should encourage it. Again you are just being asked to mull. Not leak insights from the equity-research desk at Goldman Sachs. Chill with the dressing-downs.