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YC job post, they fixed the title to reflect this better

I think it's a very dumb way to advertise. No matter what side of the aisle they are on politically, they alienate a considerable percentage of potential employees/customers with that strategy.

I'm a conservative and I was only offended by the barely descriptive landing page.

"Obama uses Optimizely. Help him get re-elected by joining Optimizely". It doesn't look very clear to me that this is a YC-sponsored link.

1) Optimizely is a YC-funded company

2) Has no voting / commenting / flagging so it's a jobs post

3) Has no submitter so it's definitely a jobs post

I don't agree with the wording either. But I guess it's supposed to purposefully provoke. I wouldn't be surprised if they're running an A/B campaign on the page linked right now, or will be later on with a different jobs post or something. If so, kudos to them and smart work. I don't give much a damn about 'helping him get re-elected' however.

I follow, but how can one tell from looking? There is a convenient "[pdf]" tag when a link is a PDF, but no indicator besides missing controls that there is some special arrangement for job postings. I had to check the web to find out that Optimizely is YC-funded, and I had no idea YC jobs had special promotion on HN until I found this post. It's a slightly shady thing to do without any obvious indicator of what's going on.

Check the jobs link at the top and also notice that you can't vote for it / no arrow; therefore it's a jobs posting, which are exclusive to YC companies.

Yeah, because it smacks of political nonsense. HN shouldn't (in my view) be used as a political campaign machine. Politics shouldn't be on HN unless it directly relevant to tech or startups, etc.

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