Because I am obligated to resume investing based on a HN comment? Wow.

No, of course not. Because you were so quick to dismiss someone offering you exactly what you complained didn't exist.

You know... I'm not an investor but if I was and someone pitched me by saying "Hey, want to give me 25k" without any other information I'd dismiss them out of hand too.

Note that his profile has no clue as to what I would actually be investing in.

I just wanted to minimise the spam as much as possible and politely ask if he'd consider it in principle first. My profile links to my resume etc which might be enough to warrant a 5 min chat to get the pitch, and who knows from there. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take :-)

Ya, I think that's fair too, I didn't mind your post either (though obviously it would be problematic if it became a trend).

I just don't think it's fair to criticize him for quickly dismissing it.

I think the context matters and I said why in my other response.

I think to be fair, this was expected, I guess he means he's getting not many leads for 25k investments from sources he knows etc.

The statement was “I stopped investing when...”. That indicates the current status is not active.