This is the reason I no longer bother with HN's "Who's Hiring" posts.
They're all Ghost Jobs and we can't even complain there about it.
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They're all Ghost Jobs and we can't even complain there about it.
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).
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.