[jtheory]

I agree with all that generally (and nothing at all against Peroni, or working with a recruiter at all, etc).

I still think it's best if he leaves this thread to direct company postings, though, and finds other ways to let interested HNers to work with him.

The ideal "Who's Hiring" page will have lots of postings, and every post will be as close to "ideal" as possible.

I define an ideal post in this context as one that links to the company involved, is posted by a current technical employee of that company (or a founder), and does a good job describing what they're looking for.

If I'd like to focus more on Ruby, for example, I can search the page for all of the Ruby posts, open all the links, and see what company is doing something of interest to me, and which poster has a tone that appeals to me.

A recruiter post can't possible be an ideal post like this, no matter who the recruiter is, and how good they are.

[Peroni]

Retrospect is a wonderful thing. I won't be posting on Who's Hiring again although for the record, out of those that contacted me, I have already arranged interviews for three of them and there are potentially more to come so at least those that read my post in a positive light might actually get something out of it.

[jtheory]

I hope I didn't seem like I was piling on, and I wasn't annoyed by your post in the first place -- just thinking in terms of the general trend I'd like to see in these threads. Cheers.

[Peroni]

No I do understand your point. I have contacted the HN team to see if there is an option to pay for a formal job post but they don't want to start a trend of recruiter advertising which is understandable.

It was an interesting experiment and instead I may just set up an opt-in monthly mailing list exclusively for HN'ers with opportunities that I feel would be of interest. More on that later.