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On a sidenote: why can't we comment on these? I have a feeling I know why, but I need to hear someone with a YC shirt on say it.
by 0des 4y ago
On a sidenote: why can't we comment on these? I have a feeling I know why, but I need to hear someone with a YC shirt on say it.
- version_five 4y agoI'm not the person you're looking for, but I don't think the reason is anything nefarious. It's just that the posts have a single point, which is to tell you the company is hiring. If you let people comment, it inevitable devolves into some nitpicking or criticism of the company (or more rarely some kind of shilling) which frustrates the purpose of the post. If there is a news story, a "my experience at company X" blogpost, any kind of relevant point to be made about that company, someone could submit that as a story. Letting people comment on job ads would just turn them into lightning rods for whatever bad things people want to say, and then what would be the point? I'm sure I have seen a moderator reply in one of the who is hiring threads saying something similar that allowing comments just attracts criticism and derails the threads
- musicale 4y ago> Letting people comment on job ads would just turn them into lightning rods for whatever bad things people want to say, and then what would be the point Hearing whatever bad (or possibly good) things people have to say about company X is exactly what I would want and would greatly increase the value, of those posts as well as my likelihood of clicking on them.
- stevage 4y agoIsn't it possible someone might have something good to say about the company and why you should work there?
- seanlane 4y agoFor a response "from someone with a YC shirt", see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31602113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31602113 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285793