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Re:Show HN: A simple tool to help filter recruiter spam by thrownaway561 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:51AM (#29995180)
there is no recruiter who is going to waste their time filling in a form to contact you. recruiters nowadays use linkedin for all of their correspondence with candidates, only the schumbags use email or text. any email i get from a recruiter, i just mark as spam, any text or phones calls, i just block. just open a linkedin account, update your profile to match your resume and start connecting with the recruiters you want in your area or industry. it's that simple.
Re:Show HN: A simple tool to help filter recruiter spam by darraghor on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:38AM (#30006353)
Hey,

Thanks for the comment.

Recruiters on linkedin ignore the "I'm not looking" setting and spam candidates anyway. Linked even gives them tools to do this! So linkedin doesn't fix this issue unfortunately.

You can reply to linkedin spam messages with the filteredreduced link. It's just text. Thats what i do.

Unfortunately linkedin don't offer an api to let me automatically respond to messages on their system. Now that would be awesome if they did!

Re:Show HN: A simple tool to help filter recruiter spam by thrownaway561 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @09:22AM (#30009241)
that maybe so, but again, no recruiter is going to fill out a form to contact you, which is the primary selling point of your site.
Re:Show HN: A simple tool to help filter recruiter spam by darraghor on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:43PM (#30019270)
the primary selling point is to filter recruiter spam. if they don't fill in the form that's filtering in action. working perfectly as intended!