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Tell HN: Massive amount of spam from "Who Wants to be hired"

6•0xmattf•1h ago
Hey everyone,

I've previously had some success with these threads, but the last 2-3 times I've posted in them, my inbox has just been flooded with spam. Even more so on this last one.

I don't understand why people would think it would be a good idea to spam the people in these threads. People looking for work are already stressed out. You really think you're going to get a good response promoting your brand new Claude generated job board? You think people want to join your community of job seekers so you can promote products to them? Come on. This is a good way to absolutely destroy your reputation.

Then the clearly fake recruiter39923243323@gmail addresses offering to "work together".

My god, those threads are dead to me. I will never post in them again, and I suggest others not to as well.

Comments

msub2•55m ago
Sadly I think it's any job board that can be easily scraped these days, have had very similar results when posting Reddit "for hire" listings
btrettel•27m ago
I have encountered the same problem myself. I've switched to linking to an image of a new disposable email address. Zero spam since then. (Actually, zero non-test messages total since then, but that's fine too.) I suppose that will work only as long as not too many people do it, though.

However, there are legitimate companies hiring through those threads. I know someone who got their current job from one of those threads. If you can avoid the spam, I think the benefits outweigh the downsides.

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