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Comment by kron4eg | Hacker News Reader

"Have at least 200 karma or have been an HN member for more than 2 years" this is too restrictive.

I think if anything, it's not restrictive enough. The idea is that HN acts as a community filter for membership, and 200 is really not much for an active member of the community.

What value would you suggest?

Same as the downvoting threshold (500).

I think anything from 200 to 500 would work well. Anything at or over 1000 is problematic since to get that you need to be quite active on the site.

500+; the downvoting threshold should be enough.

If the main point is to filter out recruiters, then 100 or 2 years should be fine. There's no need to filter out less active posters.

For a brief moment there I thought you were suggesting that it should only be available to people who registered 100 or 2 years ago

You would need a threshold of course. But having that would also mean there would be a fringe demand for people who are above the threshold.

Thus, if this is done, there could be demand for a job board where non-threshold-meeting HN members can employ threshold-meeting HN members to post their job ads. Ok, partly kidding.

To the extent that HN karma means anything, a 10 day-old account with 1 point just isn't a very strong signal.

Hey, I have exactly 0 StackOverflow karma (and no account, but that's easily fixed). I'm hardly surprised that they don't roll out the red carpet for me.

StackOverflow careers is current invite-only, with the caveat that if you have a nice GitHub account the company themselves will invite you. (I think there was another type of account that could get you access, but I didn't pay enough attention.)

Perhaps a way around the restriction would be to adopt a similar system. People with 200 karma or 2 years would be automatically accepted, but others would need an invite from an existing member.

Apparently if you ask them (and have decent credentials) you can get an invitation easily. I did.

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