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Looks like a typical commons dilemma to me - recruiter spam weakens recruiting as an industry, but individual recruiters sometimes do find prospects and pocket
by gyardley 16y ago
Looks like a typical commons dilemma to me - recruiter spam weakens recruiting as an industry, but individual recruiters sometimes do find prospects and pocket a substantial fee for it. Because of this, they're not going to stop doing it.
Commons dilemmas are pretty difficult to solve without resorting to regulation.
- tomjen3 16y agoWe don't need regulations, we just need to make life sufficiently painful for them. The best way is to find a way to waste as much of their time as possible, the next is to implement filters ala adblock, to block annoying people.
- mst 16y agoPeriodically somebody spams as many @cpan.org addresses as possible. When I get recruiter spam to my CPAN address, I ask the nearest other CPAN contrib if they got it as well. If yes, we and every other contrib we know then killfiles them. Perhaps a hashtag system - #githubrecruiterspam or something - would allow other communities to do that efficiently?