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Ask HN: Are job postings acceptable?
I always thought that posting job openings would not be acceptable on HN.
However there was one recently posted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=476495 and nobody commented that the post was unacceptable.
I ask because I do from time to time have contract work available, but, on the other hand, we certainly don't want HN to turn into a jobs board.
Forgive me if I missed them (I did look) but are there any guidelines regarding posting jobs on HN?
- pclark 18y agoI see no problem with them, no promises your job posting won't get critiqued by lots of users though ;)
- yan 18y ago"we certainly don't want HN to turn into a jobs board." Why not? I mean we sure don't want to mix it with the primary news.yc content, but why not form a sister-board for jobs? And not just YC-funded startups looking for people, but an actual job board. We have the right kind of people here on both sides of the job-searching scenario.
- clintavo 18y agoI agree with you yan. That's what I meant to not turn the news.yc into jobs a sister board would be great.
- pg 18y agoThere are no official guidelines. YC startups get to post on the jobs page. We're going to let other startups post on the jobs page soon via startuply.
- noodle 18y agoi think that if you have a compelling offer, post it. especially if you're looking for co-founders or lead developers. if you're soliciting for data entry people every few days, no thanks. might be nice if it were self-policed and tagged like the ask hn stuff is.