What are the pros and cons of premined altcoins? When starting an altcoin from scratch, how would distributing premined coins to a certain community affect the currency?
pro's:


dev gets paid
some bounties and coin distribution can occur


con's:


depending on the size of the premine, developer could get an unreasonably large amount of coins for what is essentially a copy and paste job.
negative preconceived opinions about the coin because it is premined.
dev could be a scammer and dump all the coins, rapidly deflating the price(ie, a pump and dump)
those who claim the bounties may run with the money and pull the services at a moments notice once the bounty is paid.
coin may be subject to 51% attacks, difficulty stranding attacks, and other undocumented forking attacks from anti-premine "activists", who may be the vocal minority but often have the majority of hash on any given coin.
the coin will be under constant attack from trolls