Re:Dev.to is scraping whoishiring posts to spam their platform
by judahcr on Friday August 09, 2019 @12:14PM
(#20655677)
I don’t like it, but I can see where they’re coming from. Because, technically, this would be a business opportunity; what if you get hired because you posted on their site?
So while this is definitely not the best way to get people on the platform, HN’s wording is vague enough where they don’t seem to be blatantly breaking the rules, just using some annoying community building tactics.
Re:Dev.to is scraping whoishiring posts to spam their platform
by smithmayowa on Friday August 09, 2019 @10:54AM
(#20654920)
Tech startup's "the end justifies the means" motto right there, growth at all cost and lest I forget are you growing 20% month over month?, because you should to be valued as a unicorn.
Re:Dev.to is scraping whoishiring posts to spam their platform
by save_ferris on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:04AM
(#20655009)
Very true. But how do you protect easily scraped data that doesn't sit behind a portal/paywall and has value to somebody? Seems to be one of long-running mysteries of the internet.
Re:Dev.to is scraping whoishiring posts to spam their platform
by gus_massa on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:22AM
(#20655169)
I stand on the side of the spam button in gmail.
If confirmed, a story like this make never upvote an official post from dev.to in the future, and make me less prone to upvote stories hosted in dev.to .
(I have 3 or 4 site in my personal list of never upvote.)
(And if there is a repeated abuse, the mods make get mad and ban the site.)
Re:Dev.to is scraping whoishiring posts to spam their platform
by jeanlucas on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:38AM
(#20655334)
I only posted it here because I give dev.to the benefit of doubt. My guess is that the listing is a new business inside the community (has pricing) and they were experimenting
Re:Dev.to is scraping whoishiring posts to spam their platform
by jeanlucas on Friday August 09, 2019 @11:16AM
(#20655121)
Got me curious, why?
edit: btw, I did not post a job, but got spam to post job on their platform. If at least it was related to what I wanted, looks like they just wanted to mass mail.
In the future, it's best to notify us at [email protected] about things like this, too. We only noticed this post by accident.
So while this is definitely not the best way to get people on the platform, HN’s wording is vague enough where they don’t seem to be blatantly breaking the rules, just using some annoying community building tactics.
If confirmed, a story like this make never upvote an official post from dev.to in the future, and make me less prone to upvote stories hosted in dev.to .
(I have 3 or 4 site in my personal list of never upvote.)
(And if there is a repeated abuse, the mods make get mad and ban the site.)
edit: btw, I did not post a job, but got spam to post job on their platform. If at least it was related to what I wanted, looks like they just wanted to mass mail.