Ask HN: Does it feel like Jerry is abusing posting privileges?

by gmjosack on 12/4/2021, 4:17:41 AM with 25 comments
I see Jerry is Hiring posts pop up what feels like multiple times a week and rarely see these posts from other YC companies. I wonder if others notice this and feel they're posting too often or if I'm just over sensitive to it...

  • by DantesKite on 12/4/2021, 5:41:04 AM

    I visit this website every day and I have no idea who Jerry is.

    The Hacker News curation looks fine to me.

  • by etaioinshrdlu on 12/4/2021, 5:28:03 AM

    I kind of feel this way about BuildZoom. It's sort of spammy at this point, imo.

  • by jlund-molfese on 12/4/2021, 5:41:16 AM

    I can’t say I’ve noticed that, and it seems like they’re only posting once a week at https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs (I’m assuming each post only shows on the front page for a fraction of a day?)

  • by dang on 12/4/2021, 4:48:58 PM

    Looks like other users have already explained that these are job ads and all that (thanks!) - but I'm curious what you guys think we should do. I don't want startups' job ads to be landing like spam in readers' minds. The only thing I can think of is to slow down the frequency—but it's currently limited to 1 per week, which already seemed pretty infrequent to me. Thoughts?

    Btw if you want to take a look at the instructions we give to the startups about these ads, they're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/jobguide.html.

  • by djbusby on 12/4/2021, 6:37:35 AM

    All the YC companies get to post a Hiring here and it fixes at like spots 8-15 or so, an they all repeat as others have mentioned Smarking and BuildZoom are also frequent, there's a few others all on the Jobs page

    https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

  • by gnicholas on 12/4/2021, 6:43:42 AM

    You notice this on the front page, or when you're browsing /newest? I can't remember seeing these, but it's possible HN shows different users different YC hiring posts based on location or other criteria.

  • by throwaway81523 on 12/4/2021, 5:33:41 AM

    I do see those Jerry posts but also a few others like the one that searches for parking spots or whatever it was. I figure posting those ads is part of YC's function, or at any rate, that they know about it and are ok with it.

    One tip to Jerry though: I'm usually very resistant to replying through consolidators like lever.co or angel.co. I'd rather deal with the company directly. I don't know how common that is.

  • by password4321 on 12/4/2021, 7:32:12 AM

    I was going to complain about Hive's post today, which seemed out of place when originally posted with it's original title as "Why Hive Is Such A Uniquely Dope Place To Work" but it did get renamed to "Hive.co (YC S14) is hiring".

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29432218

  • by pvg on 12/4/2021, 5:27:27 AM

    Email the mods with this sort of question.

  • by whoknowswhat11 on 12/4/2021, 6:28:27 AM

    Never even heard of these guys or seen their posts. I'm on here a bit.

  • by micro_cam on 12/4/2021, 6:40:33 AM

    Huh, haven't noticed that one but I was thinking the same thing about another company. Wonder if HN started targeting job postings resulting in repeat shows?

  • by brudgers on 12/4/2021, 6:28:59 PM

    Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2879055

  • by lordnacho on 12/4/2021, 7:03:58 AM

    Perhaps if it bothers too much someone could construct a ublock filter to remove the "X is hiring" threads.

    But generally I find it pretty easy to ignore.

  • by grace-puzzl on 12/4/2021, 5:14:12 AM

    they could be optimizing for how YC posts "new roles", essentially if they deleted their job posts and created a brand new one, YC would register it as a "new" post, so to answer your Q, they totally could be monopolizing it.