[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Why do YC hiring posts not have comments all...
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Ask HN: Why do YC hiring posts not have comments allowed?
I assume to not turn them into interviews in the comments? But it
seems reasonable to let the community comment and discuss such a
post.
Author : dpflan
Score : 18 points
Date : 2023-11-27 17:55 UTC (5 hours ago)
| minimaxir wrote:
| It's an ad, not a normal submission.
|
| If there were comments, most of them would be shitposting about
| the company in question.
| gigatexal wrote:
| Some companies could benefit from some good criticism.
| codegeek wrote:
| Will shift the focus on something else and not just the job.
| HN mods are smart to not allow that. I don't blame them.
| kazinator wrote:
| The job would be shitposted too.
| huytersd wrote:
| The good criticism unfortunately comes with a bunch of
| shitposting.
| kazinator wrote:
| It could be done in some strictly moderated way (in the sense
| that comments don't appear unless approved). So that not being
| done shows that basically HN doesn't want job posts to be
| discussion items in any shape.
| catlover76 wrote:
| Because then most of us would comment on how the company in
| question seems to be constantly hiring and thus can't seem to
| hold on to employees (looking at you, Skio)
|
| Companies like MSFT, Facebook, etc., might be perpetually hiring,
| but most of the YC companies whose posts we see here certainly
| aren't.
| solardev wrote:
| Doesn't this incentivize companies -- especially newer ones
| without a solid reputation -- to be both better and more
| transparent about their hiring practices? It lets the better
| startups float to the top, and gives the ones receiving more
| criticism a chance to improve.
|
| A simple "Soandso is hiring" does nothing to tell us about the
| company, and the job descriptions are often not very
| informative either. I usually get more information out of a
| Craigslist post...
| salemnazar wrote:
| It is in the best interest of employees to do that, but not
| the startups. Information asymmetry is an important thing to
| leverage to maximize investment.
| apsurd wrote:
| that's funny, I definitely react to skio hiring posts as well.
| "recharge migrations" lol like anyone knows what the hell that
| is. I get that i'm not their target market but it's a hiring
| post!
|
| But, maybe there's no such thing as bad press.
|
| (recharge migrations are a shopify subscription solution that's
| apparently outdated and complicated. skio makes it super easy,
| and better.)
| busterarm wrote:
| Tesorio is another one like Skio...
| catlover76 wrote:
| edit: "big enough to justify perpetually hiring"
| dpflan wrote:
| aside: (I like how the first top-level comments are that the
| posts would devolve, while the first top-level replies are that
| wouldn't it be beneficial in some way to have discussion...hence
| this post..)
| Obscurity4340 wrote:
| I'm glad yCombinator was able to put together and prove the
| efficacy of this format and business model. Comments would
| threaten that and there's many other ways for one to get their
| point across.
| NewJazz wrote:
| Do you remember when reddit ads had comments? Pepperidge farm
| remembers.
| zyberzero wrote:
| That's a meme I haven't heard in a long time
| VirusNewbie wrote:
| Because most of them are asking for senior developer and offering
| 150k and some equity...
|
| I don't think many of the comments would have positive things to
| say.
| kdwikzncba wrote:
| Why? Because that's too low? Or because it's too high?
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