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A word problem: If it's 90%-10% revenue share, but they have a blogpost (https://discord.com/creators/server-subs-104-price-your-subs...) explaining that you need to shoot to make 110% in revenue of the amount you need to take home before taxes, what percent confidence should one have in their ability to manage creators' funds?

...Have I missed something, or are you mad at them for rounding 1/.9 = 1.111... to "110%" in an article about estimating revenue? Unless you're able to guess the number of subscribers you'll have with 3 significant figures of precision, that seems entirely appropriate.

It is always fine for a chat server to silently round numbers. There is no context in which I want a payment processor to silently round numbers. (And I'm not wild about a "haha who even knows how taxes work" joke either)

Its exposition, not documentation. Consider the audience.

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