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I have noticed a trend of not naming companies here. Is it against the rules? I fell that we should name and shame companies that are disrespectful of peoples time.

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I've had multiple comments detached (as you can see by my comment history) for calling out companies that suck to apply for in the monthly hiring threads. Either the people who posted must have complained so they removed it, or HN doesn't want people to know some companies suck to deal with when it comes to hiring process.

Would Reddit be more open to something like this as in could you create a subreddit and remind HN readers to check?

I see a few people seem interested in the idea of naming such companies. I have wasted a few weekends worth of my time (which at freelance rates is a decent amount of money) and have been ignored when I asked for feedback (sometimes just ignored completely). Its disrespectful and companies should be called out for it. I could name at least one one company that regularly posts in the hiring threads here.

Don't let the HN censorship discourage you. Name them and shame them!

I will continue doing so in the monthly hiring thread when I have the time.

I'm still undecided about the best option for these situations, but I made this ( simple ) site as an experimental database of people's hiring experiences, and posted to HN. I'm letting you know because you cared about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16895043

I made a place that is not moderated by HN, where you can share your experiences of applying. It's called hirepwned.xyz and that's the domain name. Just wanted to let you know because you were passionate about this.

The HN post is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16895043

It’s a chilling effect caused by overzealous moderation.

When Coinbase first launched, someone was having issues getting funds out of there. That person made a thread on HN, and the response has always been “HN is not a support forum for YC companies” by the moderation team.

After these comments, I made a site where you can share you experiences: hirepwned.xyz -- There's no rule against not naming companies.

yes I think we need a database of bad actors here

And it is done.

Pretty simple (beanstalk / elasticsearch, no sessions): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16895043

Hope you find this database useful.

I don't believe I agree. Every story has two sides and I'm just not sure this is the forum to lay that all out in.

If not here, where? There's no other forum where it will be easier to hear both sides of the story, naming a name on HN is probably the best place to name names because it's pretty likely to actually get hashed out in the comments.

There perhaps now is another forum because I made it ( actually reused some old code ), after reading these comments. But it's not a forum. More like a very simple database with elastic search. I'm replying you because you seemed interested in this. Hope this is useful somehow, the HN post is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16895043

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