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There was such a post recently with the title “OlaClick (YC W21) first LaTam startup to raise from Facebook, Google; now hiring”¹, which I thought was particula
by teddyh 4y ago
There was such a post recently with the title “OlaClick (YC W21) first LaTam startup to raise from Facebook, Google; now hiring”¹, which I thought was particularly sneaky, adding extra ad copy in the title of an impossible-to-criticize post.
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31523852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31523852
- jacquesm 4y agoAgreed, did you alert dang to this?
- dang 4y agoThey shouldn't have done that, though it was almost certainly an innocent mistake*. If I'd seen it, I would have edited it. You can see the guidelines for YC startups posting job ads here: https://news.ycombinator.com/jobguide.html https://news.ycombinator.com/jobguide.html. As you can see there are 6 paragraphs dedicated to neutral titles. * Founders don't post like that for nefarious reasons. It's just that many of them don't spend much time on HN and have no idea of the finicky conventions of this community.