If you mean the rule at the top, it's not up there to prevent comments like this, but rather the complaints that people sometimes post about their previous opinions/experiences with a company in reply to a job posting. We don't allow those because we don't have any way of knowing which are justified and which aren't. Bad corporate behavior is a thing, disgruntled commenters are a thing (the kind who are good at telling only one misleading side of the story), and the two can be hard to tell apart. Sometimes the community can sort things out through the informal adjudication process that arises in HN threads around controversial questions—but those are lengthy and Who Is Hiring threads are not the place for it.

No, I totally get it! I didn't mean to accidentally imply that you were being unreasonable. I was merely being facetious about HN culture my friend!

Technical Marketing Manager 4 is my job title. Thanks!

out of curiosity, what HN law are you potentially breaking? I'm guessing there's a law that prohibits posts that simply say another comment is good?

It looks to me like no actual rule was broken per se, but GP is aware he was breaking more like a thing of etiquette. It's kind of an "apologies in advance, as I know this is sort of rude, but I'm going to say it anyway because I'm saying something nice" that wasn't phrased optimally.

HN generally discourages lightweight chit chat to protect the signal to noise ratio. They more strongly discourage it in these Hiring posts and it seems to me that's the correct way to handle it because this is intended as a free advertising space, not a discussion space.

In part for purposes of making advertisers comfortable posting here so they will post at all, HN more strictly forbids attacks against the advertisers because that would drive away a lot of advertisers and harm the utility of these posts. But, also, these posts have a lot of little ads and it's already a huge pile of info to sort through if you are job hunting, even without chit chat and ugly, long tangents thrown in.

HN likely doesn't have the manpower to lock these threads and institute a pre approval process as the mechanism that protects these posts as 99% (free) ads. So they rely on certain social expectations to make this work.

Since the membership very much values these posts, the membership generally does a good job of respecting certain expectations.

There are spaces on the internet where the meme is "This is why we can't have nice things" and it typically gets stated as a way to say "It's not the fault of incompetent moderation. No, the members are just assholes who won't behave." (Often stated by the mods, who are incompetent and prone to putting out the fire with gasoline.)

HN has both competent moderation and members who more or less try hard to behave. This is why we can have nice things around here, like the Who is Hiring threads, which are a free service benefiting both businesses in need of staff and people in need of employment.

Well, generally speaking, HN culture frowns upon low-value comments. That doesn't just imply negative comments but also '+1' type comments. Which is part of the reason why threads on HN are of significantly higher quality than those on other platforms.

Pas du tout.