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Those three you selected co-existed alongside 295 days of many mediocre, dull, boring and ridiculous job posts that don't foster good or valuable discussion. I

Those three you selected co-existed alongside 295 days of many mediocre, dull, boring and ridiculous job posts that don't foster good or valuable discussion. I think there was also problem(s) with startups trying to stay secret + being identifiable from their job listings. There did used to be comments, until those reasons.

aaronbrethorst 12y ago
Seems like defaulting to comments on with the option of disabling them if the startup is in stealth mode would be a good solution.
- benologist 12y ago
  There is discussion about all this buried in PG's submissions history - I found where points and submitters stopped being shown on jobs 1380 days ago, I think it was all part of the same overhaul: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2542355 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2542355 Might be time to revisit it but I think presenting them as HN content is wrong - they're not HN content, they don't get to the front page because they're good or because one of our peers thought the rest of us might like it and more of our peers agreed.
  - aaronbrethorst 12y ago
    > they're not HN content HN is explicitly part of YC. If you disagree with that[1], there's always https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs or Reddit [1] I do, to a certain extent, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    - benologist 12y ago
      They're YC's ads shown alongside HN's content. If they weren't inserted on the front page automatically they would almost universally never get there because they're not even similar to our content - otherwise non-YC job posts would be upvoted to the front page too.
      - aaronbrethorst 12y ago
        That's native advertising for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc