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Why were comments disabled from the scribd post?
I'm just curious. Comments in this community are very valuable.
- aneesh 18y agoThat's not a normal post -- it's a special job posting only available to YC companies. Comments aren't enabled for those posts.
- jyothi 18y agoAh. Would this be followed by more job postings - paid too ? It is a niche audience here for hacker jobs and more. Highly valuable and I guess people wouldn't have much of a problem either once in a while to look at a good job posting. But still it might be better if placed on a different link or on a small strip on the right ?
- jrockway 18y agoThis is not a new feature. It just isn't used very often.
- gravitycop 18y agoThere is a jobs link in the header. http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs However, it does not notify (e.g. show as a highlighted link) when there are new job postings. Perhaps that could be a new HN feature someday.
- davidw 18y agoI've often thought it might be nice to route around the lack of comments by having another post that points to the original. I'd rather have something like "job poster gets to moderate comments" than not having them at all, but I guess pg is a bit busy:-)
- Herring 18y agoIf you get a chance, ask him to work on the RSS feed. I've seen feeds that are worse, but not by much.
- axod 18y agoComments are especially valuable on the bizarre phenomenon that is scribd. I personally hate the fact comments are disabled for job postings.
- pclark 18y agowhy? I think it'd be kind of annoying if you post a job request and all you get is commentary on your company :)
- axod 18y agoI'd mind less if the job requests weren't mixed in with everything else. Put job postings over to the right there or something if they're "non interactive" adverts. Surely it'd be nice to be able to ask the company some questions though? Like "Do you have a wii console?" "Do any hot girls work there?" etc
- pclark 18y agoI have to admit the first thing I thought when I saw that scribd advert was to post a comment expressing my opinion on scribd :>
- axod 18y agoheh ok, ok same here... To be honest, I'm surprised they didn't take the text "Scribd is on pace for 70M uniques this month with just 5 Rails developers. Come join us!", and wrap it in a 250Kb flash file, and 'stream' it over to the front page.
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- pclark 18y agoHeh. Irrespective of their project -- the devs are great guys (or the ones I've conversed with) I'd love to work there.
- axod 18y agohttp://www.scribd.com/doc/11439198/Scribd-job-posting http://www.scribd.com/doc/11439198/Scribd-job-posting