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They're not: "Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to responding to applicants." Please restore it. I can show receipts.
That could certainly be. The trouble is that we have no way of sorting out which companies are doing what—there would need to be some kind of 'due process' whereby the community could assess the fairness of different claims, and Who Is Hiring threads are no place for doing that. So in the end we just ask people not to post these. It's not to deny that these things are a problem, just that it can't be fairly decided h…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39245607
Suppression is actively affecting people, though I'm not sure how harmful it is yet. There's already self-moderation happening (community votes), so again what is there to gain?