[jacquesm]

Let's not go for malice where being uninformed would do.

I'm pretty well informed about all things HN and I had missed the original thread where the whoishiring policy was established.

What would be good is if a title of 'Who is hiring' would automatically trigger a review or if those postings would be limited to the whoishiring account. And even better still if that were an actual HN/YC supported feature.

[phantom_oracle]

@jacquesm: Are you the OP of the original hiring post? (as that is the thread I was asking to be deleted).

Also,

>Sorry, I didn't know about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828

>

>@Mods, can you please delete this post?

I find it strange that the OP claims he/she didn't know about the regular monthly posting when he/she got the exact wording correct.

@akh: didn't you pick up on the username of the regular posting?

[jacquesm]

> @jacquesm: Are you the OP of the original hiring post? (as that is the thread I was asking to be deleted).

No. But I think that to lose it entirely would be a waste. I've mailed the moderators.

[akh]

Thanks @jacquesm. @phantom_oracle, yes it was my mistake, and that's why I said sorry :)

[akh]

I looked at the last one, copy-pasted the top bit and posted. Didn't know that we had a whole policy around this thing.

[phantom_oracle]

@akh: Well it was probably a mistake. No harm done.

@jacquesm: True, it would. We'll see what happens at 9am EST.

[jacquesm]

> No harm done.

There is harm:

Maybe not all jobs posted here will be re-posted later. And if the thread is deleted they won't even show up on search.

The best solution would be if who is hiring threads could only be posted by the whoishiring account and this is made official in some way.

More users => more chance of mistakes like these.