Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs

On a similar post about ghost jobs a couple of weeks ago, I made the following suggestion:

Another potential way to at least surface dodgy behaviour perhaps: Automatically append to a poster's comment links to all their previous comments in Who's Hiring threads in the past twelve months.

I can foresee posters then creating throwaway accounts to avoid this, but the green username would be a give-away (or restrict new accounts from posting on these threads).

You're assuming that HN cares about ghost jobs. They don't.

They make money by growing startups and selling them, not by respecting job seekers.

So, why would they put any difficulty in the startups' growth? What's there for them to gain?

In the end, it is "caveat emptor". It's the responsibility of job seekers to evaluate if the posts are trustworthy.