Needs a moderation policy. The #1 posting is currently "Fart engineer"
When I applied, they said the queue was backed up.
Show HN: Find Remote Work
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#42"The best place to find remote jobs." I get really annoyed when such blatantly false statements are slapped onto a website. If you can't say that honestly then it is a great opportunity to be creative with messaging and say something that adds value. This has been a pet peeve of mine for as long as I've been running online businesses. Our competitors are always #1... all of them, at the same time.
why do you care? it's a Show HN, it's obviously just the tagline the one dev made up to show off a weekend project to their internet colleagues. So its not the best right now, but at least they have a goal.
Bah, I've had job interview "take home" projects that were about at this level of difficulty.
Note to employers: "Implement a simple REST service in language X" is getting really, really old. You ought to be able to come up with something more challenging that isn't such a boring time sink.
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#43diarrhea testing engineer????wtf...
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#44"The best place to find remote jobs." I get really annoyed when such blatantly false statements are slapped onto a website. If you can't say that honestly then it is a great opportunity to be creative with messaging and say something that adds value. This has been a pet peeve of mine for as long as I've been running online businesses. Our competitors are always #1... all of them, at the same time.
Not sure it was done purposely here, but frequently the "Best Such and Such" wording is used for Google, which in turn is because that's what people search for. Those seeking higher Google SERP rankings (everyone) are rewarded for using phrases like "Best Cloud Storage" as their title, h1, and in the description text. I agree with you though, and it'd be nice to see this go away, but it won't until Google changes how this works (or perhaps they already did, but websites assume they're still on to something).
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Finally! I was beginning to think nobody out there valued my skills
Funny enough, when I was younger I worked in the game and simulation industry, at the time, we where working on a game that was pretty popular. Anyways, one of the devs comes running in the audio guys office and yells dude turn on the mic, he then proceeds to fart into the mic. The audio guy then stretches it out so it's got this long weird sound to it, we all laugh then a few days later I compile and am running thru…
TIL I need to switch industries
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#46You got to add moderation. This is what I see out there: Title Company Posted df df 21 minutes ago Forum Spammer Find Remote 29 minutes ago Your mother Definitely 32 minutes ago Chief Sharting Officer Farts and Sharts 2 hours ago Wizard's Assistant SICP Inc. 3 hours ago Failed Engineer Doogle 3 hours ago Fart Engineer Farts Anonymous 5 hours ago http://i.imgur.com/sWM59QJ.png
As chief sharting officer, it's really nice to be able to work from home
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#47"The best place to find remote jobs." I get really annoyed when such blatantly false statements are slapped onto a website. If you can't say that honestly then it is a great opportunity to be creative with messaging and say something that adds value. This has been a pet peeve of mine for as long as I've been running online businesses. Our competitors are always #1... all of them, at the same time.
It's PIMM (pre-Internet marketing mindset). Execs or Companies with PIMM have trouble adjusting to the concept that transparency is now often the best way to build trust and strong customer connections to a product, service, company. They don't realize even when they are wrong or make mistake transparency can still come out ahead. They don't realize that if you are trying to for example, sell a TV, creating expensive…
I'd say the opposite: claiming to be #1 even if you were set up yesterday (and - something of a tangent - striving to be #1 more than striving to be profitable) is the defining paradigm of the internet marketing era.
In the pre-internet marketing era you actually had a well established #1 job board for each vertical at the back of a printed trade publication full of expensively-created content to try to build customer connections to classified advertising. In the internet marketing era, people that want jobs Google $industry jobs and find a whole bunch of established or brand new identikit job boards often syndicating the same job ads paid for by the same central supplier, each claiming to be #1 (or "the best" or "biggest choice" or similar) because their metrics suggest making such boasts increases search clickthroughs and return visits.
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#48Super simple idea but laughable implementation - people trying SQL injections and just spamming the shit out of it means it becomes completely useless.
I wouldn't even have that online.
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#494th time this site was submitted. 157 days for HN to notice there's no moderation, and off to the front page she goes...
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#50"The best place to find remote jobs." I get really annoyed when such blatantly false statements are slapped onto a website. If you can't say that honestly then it is a great opportunity to be creative with messaging and say something that adds value. This has been a pet peeve of mine for as long as I've been running online businesses. Our competitors are always #1... all of them, at the same time.
why do you care? it's a Show HN, it's obviously just the tagline the one dev made up to show off a weekend project to their internet colleagues. So its not the best right now, but at least they have a goal.
Not specific to this site, but the cavalier use of this type of statement bothers me because I highly value honesty, integrity, ethics, etc. even on the internet where accountability is limited.
If that line is truly their goal then why not just say that,
"Building the best place to find remote jobs"
That small change honestly communicates why the site exists, why I should be interested in it and why there are limited legitimate job postings at the moment. It also tells me that this site is still evolving and I should check back.