[META] I propose that we prohibit hiring posts which pay in anything other than currency.

I've been seeing a lot of posts here offering equity in lieu of payment. While this type of posting may sometimes be beneficial to all involved, it's usually something along the lines of "I have a great idea, all I need is a programmer to build it". My position is that such activities aren't hiring. There's r/startups and r/entrepreneur for building a company, but it seems to me that this would be more for people looking to pay to having work done and other people getting paid to do it.

Most every developer I've met (myself included) gets approached about implementing half baked ideas for free often enough in real life. I think it would be nice to have a place where we can offer our services and be found by serious customers without being spammed by "idea guys" looking to build "facebook meets twitter and google".

So my questions are:

Are any of the developers or designers here ok with working for equity or are you mostly interested in cash?

If you're only interested in cash, are you ok with restricting the sub to paying jobs and gigs only?

Edit

This has been accepted as a rule for the sub and linked to in the sidebar. For anyone who does want to post equity-only jobs try:

• r/startups
• r/Entrepreneur

An even better idea would be to pick out a small part of your project, offer cash only and find out if it will be a good fit. Then use that pre-existing relationship to bring them on as a founder. This way you're not potentially offering a big chunk of your company to somebody you hate working with.