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Should "Who Is Hiring" posts require a certain age of account or level of HN Karma to post in?
by brandnewlow 12y ago
Should "Who Is Hiring" posts require a certain age of account or level of HN Karma to post in?
- brlewis 12y agoThe spammers don't post HN replies; they send email or call.
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- slayed0 12y agoHow about instead of requiring a certain amount of karma to post in the thread, require a certain amount of karma just to view it?
- benologist 12y ago+ exclude karma earned from submitting popular sites.
- minimaxir 12y agoThere is little correlation between the domain of a submission and the amount of points it receives on average. (The exception is the more niche posts by more renowned programmers)
- benologist 12y agoThe stories don't have to be popular to generate karma, as long as the domains are some articles will get karma from other people submitting the same links and manual upvotes too. Yesterday someone autosubmitted everything a dozen big tech sites published and got 100 - 200 karma without hitting the front page.
- brandnewlow 12y agoAh, this makes sense. Karma-locking content sounds fun.
- minimaxir 12y agoThis would not work because the content is trivial to syndicate by people with privileges to view it.
- dang 12y agoI'm open to that in this case, though in general people tend to object to karma requirements. The Who Is Hiring threads belong to this community. If something needs to be done to protect them for the community, we'll do it. But we'd ideally like to see a consensus emerge. We should probably discuss this in a separate thread (and probably not today, as I'm about to be traveling). And I feel bad for taking a Show HN further off-topic, so will mark this subthread as such (which lowers it), even though it's obviously an important question.