Ask HN: Where is the who is hiring thread?

[mrfusion]

Usually it's at 9AM no?

[wtd]

The bot is "whoishiring" so I have been refreshing the search page all morning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

[krschultz]

For me that thread is generally the first thing that points out a new month has started, so I didn't even realize it was August.

I'm not sure what that says about my priorities.

[AnSavvides]

It looks like it's dead, for whatever reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8119683

[SurfScore → AnSavvides]

That one wasn't posted by whoishiring. Someone saw that and killed it, but didn't feel the need to make sure the whoishiring one was posted

[dang → SurfScore]

Users rightly killed it with flags.

The whoishiring bot has been posting these staunchly for four years. We can be patient if it sleeps in every now and then.

[jeromegv → AnSavvides]

It seems the bot did not create it automatically so I took on myself to create one, but for some reason it's out of the front page.

[dang → jeromegv]

> I took on myself to create one

Please don't. It results in a race condition for karma, and we don't want that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[kohanz]

Same question for Freelancer/Seeking Freelancer.

[wodow]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120085 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120079

[sebkomianos]

Another question is "how come this is not an internal function of HN?".

[gillis]

Better late than never! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120070

[duiker101]

just posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8120070

[nathell]

Also where is 'Who wants to be hired'?

[kohanz]

Is today not a "workday"?

[mattt416]

if there are such tight stipulations on that thread then ops should be responsible for posting and moderating it.

[jeromegv]

I've seen it on weekends, so I don't think that's the case. I just think that the bot has some issues this month, that explains why the "Who wants to be hired" is also missing.

[ben336 → jeromegv]

the bot doesn't do "who wants to be hired", thats a community effort.

[vonmoltke → ben336]

I believe that thread has been botified as well now.