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Because this is a bid job, if you'd bothered to see a little further. Maybe you should brush up on your job-hunting skills.

Since I didn't ask to be publicly identified--let alone skewered--on Hackers.com, my manner of approach is irrelevant, in my view. I won't be so rude as to call your post "crap", but why don't you give an example of the "useful information" you say is missing from my ad that justifies you calling my ad "crap".

I haven't read any other thread on this site, but I assume "HN's approach to comments" is widely ignored?

So, I take it Hacker.com is one of those sites for the initiated where those "in-the-know" can sit around and disparage the uninitiated--where the experts can gather and imbibe that tasty brew of in-crowd mockery and self-satisfied contempt for their non-expert lessers?

Perhaps, then, jv22222, since you have made me the public target of your scorn, you'll add substance to your ridicule and teach me where went I wrong with my post seeking an app writer on craigslist (different Craig).

I should tell you, first of all, that this was not my first time placing an ad for coders on craigslist, nor will it be my first time hiring someone who answers an ad. They would tell you that I pay well for good work, that I pay on time (half up front and the remaining half immediately upon completion), and that I am flexible, responsive, and accessible. I also have at least a passing familiarity with coding (there isn't a lick of javascript on this page I wrote, for example, http://craignelsen.com/).

I thought the craigslist ad was good, but you obviously disagree. You don't say exactly what it is you find so objectionable, but, if I read between the lines, my description of the job was flawed, comprising merely "hints". Perhaps you can teach me how I could have described the job so that I met your standards without actually posting my idea on the Internet (it is not, btw, a real-time dating app).

If your beef was with the fact that my ad directs to a web page with a form to fill out, then I should tell you that, as someone who hires coders, I find the form eliminates a lot of the off-shore spam responses from companies that mass-reply to ads on craigslist. If you are not an off-shore company, I should think you would be appreciative of my approach, rather than disparaging.

Also, btw, a little public criticism of your post on grounds more in line with my field of expertise:

Your doctor analogy is untenable.

Craig Nelsen Washington, DC