Ask HN: Why would my post get buried by a mod?

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by cal5k • 16 years ago

6 9 16 years ago

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We had posted an announcement on some new hiring we're doing: http://www.myplanetdigital.com/digital_strategy/blog/myplanet-hiring-billion-people

It was a play on the Groupon announcement. We're a small company, and I'm a Hacker News regular so I figured this would be a great place to tell people about it.

The post was subsequently killed in its entirety. Not edited for perhaps having a silly title (which I will readily admit), but killed altogether.

Is there any way for me to discover why?

jacquesm3• 16 years ago

The title was total bull, I guess that's a pretty good reason to kill it, if you go out of your way to produce a hiring ad then you might as well go out of your way to create a title in line with other HN hiring ads.

It's admirable you try to stand out but I think that was not the right way. Keep an eye out for the 'who's hiring threads' that pop up with some regularity and add yourself to those.

cal5k4• 16 years ago

I actually have done that regularly, and we consistently get - zero responses.

Look, I agree the title was silly (although did anyone honestly think we were hiring a billion people?) - but I would have gladly edited it if a moderator had asked me to. I'm a regular HN reader, the intent wasn't to spam... I just honestly thought it was the sort of silly headline that other readers would enjoy. Maybe "Myplanet Hiring, Like, Five People" would have been more appropriate.

Sorry if I offended? For something light-hearted it sure engendered strong reactions...

jacquesm3• 16 years ago

HN is kind of anemic in the humor department.

On odd days I think that's a good thing ;)

mooism2• 16 years ago

If enough people flag it, it gets killed without a mod taking any action.

Imo the whole post looks silly, not just the title. (Not sure I'd have flagged it myself, though.)

jacquesm3• 16 years ago

It was killed by a moderator (it has 10 points).

cal5k4• 16 years ago

It's supposed to be a little silly - I was just trying to put a light-hearted spin on our hiring process. The type of people who enjoyed it would probably enjoy working with us.

I suppose I overreached with the title?

pclark• 16 years ago

Well Groupon actually raised "like a billion dollars" whereas you equate hiring "like a billion people" to 5.

cal5k4• 16 years ago

Is satire really such a mortal sin?

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