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p.s. Here's a bunch of past mod explanations about this, if anyone wants to understand why we have this rule: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44772030 htt

• mixmastamyk 1y ago
  > "rules for job seekers, Carte blanche for companies" Sums it up nicely.
  • dang 1y ago
    When I look at the top text, I see at least 2 rules that apply to companies. Edit: Btw, please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you aren't: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20quotation%20marks%20quoting&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Edit 2: sorry, I was totally wrong about that! see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45106871 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45106871
    • mixmastamyk 1y ago
      Huh? I cut and pasted from your first link above. Also you removed/downvoted my request that asked posters to identify regions they are hiring from, specifically one about Stockholm. I’m curious what motivates such actions.
      • dang 1y ago
        Oh sorry, I totally missed that! Your use of quotation marks was just fine. I thought you were being snarky (as people sometimes do) and apologize for making the wrong assumption. > Also you removed/downvoted my request that asked posters to identify regions they are hiring from Do you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095800 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095800? I didn't remove or downvote it. I did detach it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095292 because it seemed to be a general comment that belonged at the top level, rather than a response to a particular job ad.
        • mixmastamyk 1y ago
          Well it applied to the Stockholm post mentioned. Some posts do mention it, others don't. I replied to a don't. Wouldn't mind my post being moved to the "top" level, but in reality it means buried at the bottom. Especially since my account is a second-class citizen for some reason. Probably I had a bad day several years ago. :-/
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• Bighead1221 1y ago
  How are companies allowed to post the same posting for the same roles month after month? If they are not able to find great candidate fits in this environment, and their employee counts are not moving on LinkedIn / crunchbase etc for months, can they get blacklisted from using this? I have seen several of these companies post again today
  • dang 1y ago
    We're not in a position to police that. We don't have the resources. Even apart from that, I'm not sure how one could distinguish legit from non-legit cases, short of raiding company offices.
    • Bighead1221 1y ago
      What about blacklisting companies that post the same links from their ATS platforms for months at a time? It may be difficult to track from an admin perspective but as an applicant that has been browsing this for a few months, a lot of these are easy to filter out I can show examples from this current / latest monthly postings
      • dang 1y ago
        I don't know what a ATS platform is, but there are some companies which are nearly always hiring, so the appearance of a job post each month isn't dispositive.
    • kassner 1y ago
      Let the market decide, I.e.: people comment and call out companies that do that. If the company cares, they can defend themselves, the same way we’re trying to defend the HN community. I’ve pointed this out before [1], we need a way to call out bad actors, and not allowing for such comments is only protecting bad actors. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44441921 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44441921
      • dang 1y ago