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> they don't really bother setting a profile pic or anything for their Discord

I dont have a Discord profile pic or personal info filled in in principle. Ive also disabled the exhibitionist “I am playing this now” feature. That makes me a scammer right?

Or maybe … privacy oriented?

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Well, that's the thing, because you haven't done that, I am now biased to believe you wouldn't be a good applicant regardless of your skills. In the end, the applications gaming has made things worse for everyone, but especially the outliers. And because there's only so much time one can spend screening applicants, the biases will negatively impact genuine candidates as well. The only way out of this I've found so far (aside from the obvious one of networking) is to use paid job posting sites, although that gets to be quite pricey

Well I didn’t even know you can apply for jobs on Discord :) And if I’m looking for a programming chat room I’d probably go on irc. Graybeard.

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