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There is an account named whoishiring who creates these posts.

by shanelja 12y ago

throw_away12847 12y ago
Are you hiring, or just looking to backseat moderate?
- jacquesm 12y ago
  The whoishiring account does the postings automatically, I'm not sure if that is done from YC/HN or through an outsider but it's a good idea to have only one of these threads. What bugs me is how every comment in this thread is being downvoted. Edit: it's an outsider but a pretty good setup, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828
  - phantom_oracle 12y ago
    This job post is going to confuse everyone today. Hopefully a mod deletes this Who is Hiring in favour of the regular, organized one. Kudos to this OP for trolling it.
    - jacquesm 12y ago
      Let's not go for malice where being uninformed would do. I'm pretty well informed about all things HN and I had missed the original thread where the whoishiring policy was established. What would be good is if a title of 'Who is hiring' would automatically trigger a review or if those postings would be limited to the whoishiring account. And even better still if that were an actual HN/YC supported feature.
      - phantom_oracle 12y ago
        @jacquesm: Are you the OP of the original hiring post? (as that is the thread I was asking to be deleted). Also, >Sorry, I didn't know about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828 > >@Mods, can you please delete this post? I find it strange that the OP claims he/she didn't know about the regular monthly posting when he/she got the exact wording correct. @akh: didn't you pick up on the username of the regular posting?
        akh 12y ago
        I looked at the last one, copy-pasted the top bit and posted. Didn't know that we had a whole policy around this thing.
        jacquesm 12y ago
        > @jacquesm: Are you the OP of the original hiring post? (as that is the thread I was asking to be deleted). No. But I think that to lose it entirely would be a waste. I've mailed the moderators.
        akh 12y ago
        Thanks @jacquesm. @phantom_oracle, yes it was my mistake, and that's why I said sorry :)
        phantom_oracle 12y ago
        @akh: Well it was probably a mistake. No harm done. @jacquesm: True, it would. We'll see what happens at 9am EST.
        jacquesm 12y ago
        > No harm done. There is harm: Maybe not all jobs posted here will be re-posted later. And if the thread is deleted they won't even show up on search. The best solution would be if who is hiring threads could only be posted by the whoishiring account and this is made official in some way. More users => more chance of mistakes like these.
  - akh 12y ago
    Sorry, I didn't know about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828 @Mods, can you please delete this post?
    - jacquesm 12y ago
      @Mods: or better yet, merge it with the other one when it does it's thing! Quite a few good posts in here already it would be a waste if they got lost.
mrfusion 12y ago
Can the whoishiring bot run earlier on the 1st to prevent these sort of issues?

There is an account named whoishiring who creates these posts.

throw_away12847 12y ago

Are you hiring, or just looking to backseat moderate?

jacquesm 12y ago
The whoishiring account does the postings automatically, I'm not sure if that is done from YC/HN or through an outsider but it's a good idea to have only one of these threads. What bugs me is how every comment in this thread is being downvoted. Edit: it's an outsider but a pretty good setup, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828
- phantom_oracle 12y ago
  This job post is going to confuse everyone today. Hopefully a mod deletes this Who is Hiring in favour of the regular, organized one. Kudos to this OP for trolling it.
  - jacquesm 12y ago
    Let's not go for malice where being uninformed would do. I'm pretty well informed about all things HN and I had missed the original thread where the whoishiring policy was established. What would be good is if a title of 'Who is hiring' would automatically trigger a review or if those postings would be limited to the whoishiring account. And even better still if that were an actual HN/YC supported feature.
    - phantom_oracle 12y ago
      @jacquesm: Are you the OP of the original hiring post? (as that is the thread I was asking to be deleted). Also, >Sorry, I didn't know about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828 > >@Mods, can you please delete this post? I find it strange that the OP claims he/she didn't know about the regular monthly posting when he/she got the exact wording correct. @akh: didn't you pick up on the username of the regular posting?
      - akh 12y ago
        I looked at the last one, copy-pasted the top bit and posted. Didn't know that we had a whole policy around this thing.
      - jacquesm 12y ago
        > @jacquesm: Are you the OP of the original hiring post? (as that is the thread I was asking to be deleted). No. But I think that to lose it entirely would be a waste. I've mailed the moderators.
        akh 12y ago
        Thanks @jacquesm. @phantom_oracle, yes it was my mistake, and that's why I said sorry :)
      - phantom_oracle 12y ago
        @akh: Well it was probably a mistake. No harm done. @jacquesm: True, it would. We'll see what happens at 9am EST.
        jacquesm 12y ago
        > No harm done. There is harm: Maybe not all jobs posted here will be re-posted later. And if the thread is deleted they won't even show up on search. The best solution would be if who is hiring threads could only be posted by the whoishiring account and this is made official in some way. More users => more chance of mistakes like these.
- akh 12y ago
  Sorry, I didn't know about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828 @Mods, can you please delete this post?
  - jacquesm 12y ago
    @Mods: or better yet, merge it with the other one when it does it's thing! Quite a few good posts in here already it would be a waste if they got lost.

mrfusion 12y ago

Can the whoishiring bot run earlier on the 1st to prevent these sort of issues?