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Ask HN: Anyone else thinks that Relationship Hero is using job posts as ads?

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I feel it weird that this company is often posting jobs for “love coaches” who are quite unlikely to read HN very much.

Plus when you click on the link, you get a mission statement and description of the service before the job description, which is not totally unusual, but still makes it possible to bait potential clients rather than applicant prospects.

The glaring inappropriateness of those posts is also a testament to how good the moderation is on HN. Very few posts on the front page feel like ads at all, except for those ones…

IMO, these definitely fall in the growth hack dirty tricks bin…

Contact the mods using the link in the footer to ask questions like these. They are the ones who can take action.

Part of the support YC companies get is the ability to periodically post ads on the HN front page. Part of the point of this forum is to promote YC companies and encourage people to apply for YC. The post would have been deliberately put there by the moderators.

From the FAQ under Can I post a job ad:

  Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time. The rest are listed at jobs.

No I know.

I am just saying the job posts are supposed to be for job posts and not proxies for the service they provide.

Given that YC companies have only a limited access to “Launch HN:” posts, it looks like job posting is their only guaranteed recurring exposure to the front page.

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