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I don't disbelieve you but the problem is that it's off topic here. Let me see if I can dig up some past explanations about this. Edit: here are a few: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37397355 (Sept 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354391 (Sept 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36962778 (Aug 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35818403 (May 2023)
I fully agree with your explanation Dan. In general I dislike the "air public grievances about $employer", because it's almost NEVER a level playing field: you can claim $anything, while your employer is usually legally restricted from replying for matters of privacy (which is good, by the way). That said: maybe there should be a process for reporting disingenuous job ads? You removed the Meta one for example, and to…
Removing misleading job ads by companies themselves is a totally different question. You'd need an entire investigation team, or length community discussions, to figure these things out, and even then a lot of the cases would be just messy. It's fairer and cleaner to everybody to leave this for readers to make up their own minds.
I mean, if we had a magic wand and could make all misleading ads go away while preserving all true ones, of course we would; but then with such a wand, that wouldn't be near the top of the list of things to take care of.