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Maybe it is time to get http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs a little bit more useful and turn it into a job posting board? Then it

by JarekS2 16y ago

Maybe it is time to get http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs a little bit more useful and turn it into a job posting board? Then it's just one step to create a specialized submission form to make things more organized.

luckystrike 16y ago
As far as I know, currently only YC backed companies can post on HN jobs. To make it more broader (and perhaps more useful), anyone with more than a certain karma threshold (e.g. 500) can also be allowed to post a job opening on it. A certain number of karma points (e.g. 50) can be deducted for making every job post. This strategy would keep it clean and free from recruiters, and since the post is coming from a 'accredited' HN user, it would possibly have a good chance being interesting and useful enough for most of us. The additional problem this would solve is that it would allow job postings to be visible for longer durations than what's possible with regular news threads. Just a thought.
- patrickk 16y ago
  Or simply allow HN members to flag blatant recruiter postings, and after 3-4 flags (or whatever) the post gets removed and the person's account gets blacklisted/deleted/warning sent depending on the number of offenses. It would be easy to tell a recruiter's account as the account would be fairly new, with few posts and low karma.
dotBen 16y ago
I agree. But I can also see why PG would prefer to "positively discriminate" (ok, carefully chosen words there) to just YC companies on /jobs.
- JarekS 16y ago
  Problem with YC companies is that they are US only (am I correct that you must move to US to be funded by YC?). This site is multinational so non-US people will never see anything interesting on /jobs site.
  - dotBen 16y ago
    Well I agree, I personally love YC but would probably never run any future startup I might create through YC - even though I live right here in San Francisco. The issue of geography doesn't matter. What I'm saying is that this whole community is set up to support, promote and evangelize YC and it's portfolio so I'm not surprised /jobs remains YC only.
CitizenKane 16y ago
I think this is a great idea! Using the karma system already in place could I think provide positive incentives and a nice way to do some minimal screening right off of the bat. It could even still give preferntial treament to YC companies if pg preferred.

by JarekS2 16y ago

luckystrike 16y ago

As far as I know, currently only YC backed companies can post on HN jobs. To make it more broader (and perhaps more useful), anyone with more than a certain karma threshold (e.g. 500) can also be allowed to post a job opening on it. A certain number of karma points (e.g. 50) can be deducted for making every job post. This strategy would keep it clean and free from recruiters, and since the post is coming from a 'accredited' HN user, it would possibly have a good chance being interesting and useful enough for most of us. The additional problem this would solve is that it would allow job postings to be visible for longer durations than what's possible with regular news threads. Just a thought.

patrickk 16y ago
Or simply allow HN members to flag blatant recruiter postings, and after 3-4 flags (or whatever) the post gets removed and the person's account gets blacklisted/deleted/warning sent depending on the number of offenses. It would be easy to tell a recruiter's account as the account would be fairly new, with few posts and low karma.

dotBen 16y ago

I agree. But I can also see why PG would prefer to "positively discriminate" (ok, carefully chosen words there) to just YC companies on /jobs.

JarekS 16y ago
Problem with YC companies is that they are US only (am I correct that you must move to US to be funded by YC?). This site is multinational so non-US people will never see anything interesting on /jobs site.
- dotBen 16y ago
  Well I agree, I personally love YC but would probably never run any future startup I might create through YC - even though I live right here in San Francisco. The issue of geography doesn't matter. What I'm saying is that this whole community is set up to support, promote and evangelize YC and it's portfolio so I'm not surprised /jobs remains YC only.

CitizenKane 16y ago

I think this is a great idea! Using the karma system already in place could I think provide positive incentives and a nice way to do some minimal screening right off of the bat. It could even still give preferntial treament to YC companies if pg preferred.