[stevekemp]

And posting in any of the "Who's looking for work" threads mostly just results in lots of people sending you emails:

"We saw you post, would you like to join our platform ..?"

Lots of upwork knockoffs; I've started sending them GDPR Subject Access Requests to see what the companies have scraped and held about me. Next step is obviously data-deletion requests. Fun.

[dang]

They're not supposed to do that, as the rules at the top of the thread make clear. Perhaps we should build some kind of 'flagging' feature so people can report bad actors. Then we could add a warning that bothering HN users illegitimately will land them in the bad dog box on HN.