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"Have at least 200 karma or have been an HN member for more than 2 years" this is too restrictive.
by kron4eg 15y ago
"Have at least 200 karma or have been an HN member for more than 2 years" this is too restrictive.
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoTo the extent that HN karma means anything, a 10 day-old account with 1 point just isn't a very strong signal. Hey, I have exactly 0 StackOverflow karma (and no account, but that's easily fixed). I'm hardly surprised that they don't roll out the red carpet for me.
- wccrawford 15y agoStackOverflow careers is current invite-only, with the caveat that if you have a nice GitHub account the company themselves will invite you. (I think there was another type of account that could get you access, but I didn't pay enough attention.) Perhaps a way around the restriction would be to adopt a similar system. People with 200 karma or 2 years would be automatically accepted, but others would need an invite from an existing member.
- kaffeinecoma 15y agoApparently if you ask them (and have decent credentials) you can get an invitation easily. I did.
- thomas11 15y agoI think if anything, it's not restrictive enough. The idea is that HN acts as a community filter for membership, and 200 is really not much for an active member of the community.
- jgrahamc 15y agoWhat value would you suggest?
- jolan 15y agoSame as the downvoting threshold (500).
- thomas11 15y agoI think anything from 200 to 500 would work well. Anything at or over 1000 is problematic since to get that you need to be quite active on the site.
- kabushikigaisha 15y ago500+; the downvoting threshold should be enough.
- cschmidt 15y agoIf the main point is to filter out recruiters, then 100 or 2 years should be fine. There's no need to filter out less active posters.
- ramblex 15y agoFor a brief moment there I thought you were suggesting that it should only be available to people who registered 100 or 2 years ago
- mikk0j 15y agoYou would need a threshold of course. But having that would also mean there would be a fringe demand for people who are above the threshold. Thus, if this is done, there could be demand for a job board where non-threshold-meeting HN members can employ threshold-meeting HN members to post their job ads. Ok, partly kidding.
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