Why were comments disabled from the scribd post?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=451795

by BenS • 17 years ago

34 20 17 years ago

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I'm just curious. Comments in this community are very valuable.

aneesh• 17 years ago

That's not a normal post -- it's a special job posting only available to YC companies. Comments aren't enabled for those posts.

jyothi• 17 years ago

Ah. Would this be followed by more job postings - paid too ?

It is a niche audience here for hacker jobs and more. Highly valuable and I guess people wouldn't have much of a problem either once in a while to look at a good job posting. But still it might be better if placed on a different link or on a small strip on the right ?

jrockway• 17 years ago

This is not a new feature. It just isn't used very often.

gravitycop• 17 years ago

There is a jobs link in the header. http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

However, it does not notify (e.g. show as a highlighted link) when there are new job postings. Perhaps that could be a new HN feature someday.

davidw2• 17 years ago

I've often thought it might be nice to route around the lack of comments by having another post that points to the original. I'd rather have something like "job poster gets to moderate comments" than not having them at all, but I guess pg is a bit busy:-)

Herring2• 17 years ago

If you get a chance, ask him to work on the RSS feed. I've seen feeds that are worse, but not by much.

davidw2• 17 years ago

You can ask him just as much as me or anyone else. I've never met the guy and live on the other side of the world.

axod4• 17 years ago

Comments are especially valuable on the bizarre phenomenon that is scribd.

I personally hate the fact comments are disabled for job postings.

pclark3• 17 years ago

why?

I think it'd be kind of annoying if you post a job request and all you get is commentary on your company :)

axod4• 17 years ago

I'd mind less if the job requests weren't mixed in with everything else. Put job postings over to the right there or something if they're "non interactive" adverts.

Surely it'd be nice to be able to ask the company some questions though? Like "Do you have a wii console?" "Do any hot girls work there?" etc

webwright• 17 years ago

I've posted jobs here and would love to have comments turned on. People could ask questions that might be interesting to other folks on the site.

If people posted commentary on the company, I imagine they'd be downvoted if it wasn't interesting. ;-)

sounddust• 17 years ago

If you'd like to comment on the post, please:

1) Write your comment in MS Word. 2) Export your document as a PDF. 3) Upload the document to Scribd 4) Post the Scribd link as a new story.

Thanks!

ramchip• 17 years ago

You forgot the print & photograph part!

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Web_0_0x2e_1.aspx

axod4• 17 years ago

http://www.scribd.com/doc/11439198/Scribd-job-posting

Why were comments disabled from the scribd post?

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