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Did this post get censored? And why? Is anyone else not seeing this on the front page (or any page after that)? It's not on Ask HN either...

grzm 9y ago
You might want to contact the mods via the Contact link in the footer. The monthly "Who's hiring?" and "Who wants to be hired?" threads are posted by the whoshiring user as part of HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring This may have gotten flagged because it may be misunderstood as a more official posting such as those. The mods may chime in here. For a more expedient response, I'd contact them via email. Edit to add: at the time of this posting, this submission is ranked 43, appearing on the second page.
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  - dang 9y ago
    For many years people have posted these sorts of variations on the 'Who's Hiring' threads. It's long been a standard moderation practice to demote such submissions because they (obviously?) don't meet the HN guidelines' primary criteria. That's all that happened here. If we didn't do that, the front page would fill up with these, because everyone has a different idea of what sort they'd prefer. That's particularly to be avoided on the day when the 'Who's Hiring' is already on the front page and the other regular threads are on /ask. I agree that it's nice for people to offer mentoring to others. We've reduced the penalty on the current submission so it shows up high on /ask.
    - david927 9y ago
      Thanks for the explanation, Dan.
      - dang 9y ago
        Maybe a more general reflection would be interesting to people. A tension of this site is that its core focus (intellectually interesting stories/discussions) makes for an interesing place for people to gather, giving rise to lots of additional opportunities to add value, e.g. connecting people who are interested in the same things. Some of those are very valuable! Helping people find mentors, for example. Nevertheless, we're pretty rigorous about moderating this sort of thread out, because it's not the core focus of the site. HN's core focus is the goose that lays the golden eggs. Taking care of HN means taking care of the goose and (mostly) foregoing everything else. To switch poultry metaphors, it's a case of Andrew Carnegie's line "Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket." [1] From that perspective, it's not great for HN to have threads that are lists of contact info, even though the contacts themselves have value. Staying focused isn't fun. It means making unpopular decisions and seeming like we don't care about things we actually do care about. But over the years the moderation has stabilized to a bunch of standard practices and this is one of them. It definitely isn't personal or specific to a given post. 1. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/
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grzm 9y ago

You might want to contact the mods via the Contact link in the footer. The monthly "Who's hiring?" and "Who wants to be hired?" threads are posted by the whoshiring user as part of HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring This may have gotten flagged because it may be misunderstood as a more official posting such as those. The mods may chime in here. For a more expedient response, I'd contact them via email. Edit to add: at the time of this posting, this submission is ranked 43, appearing on the second page.

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- dang 9y ago
  For many years people have posted these sorts of variations on the 'Who's Hiring' threads. It's long been a standard moderation practice to demote such submissions because they (obviously?) don't meet the HN guidelines' primary criteria. That's all that happened here. If we didn't do that, the front page would fill up with these, because everyone has a different idea of what sort they'd prefer. That's particularly to be avoided on the day when the 'Who's Hiring' is already on the front page and the other regular threads are on /ask. I agree that it's nice for people to offer mentoring to others. We've reduced the penalty on the current submission so it shows up high on /ask.
  - david927 9y ago
    Thanks for the explanation, Dan.
    - dang 9y ago
      Maybe a more general reflection would be interesting to people. A tension of this site is that its core focus (intellectually interesting stories/discussions) makes for an interesing place for people to gather, giving rise to lots of additional opportunities to add value, e.g. connecting people who are interested in the same things. Some of those are very valuable! Helping people find mentors, for example. Nevertheless, we're pretty rigorous about moderating this sort of thread out, because it's not the core focus of the site. HN's core focus is the goose that lays the golden eggs. Taking care of HN means taking care of the goose and (mostly) foregoing everything else. To switch poultry metaphors, it's a case of Andrew Carnegie's line "Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket." [1] From that perspective, it's not great for HN to have threads that are lists of contact info, even though the contacts themselves have value. Staying focused isn't fun. It means making unpopular decisions and seeming like we don't care about things we actually do care about. But over the years the moderation has stabilized to a bunch of standard practices and this is one of them. It definitely isn't personal or specific to a given post. 1. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/
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