I could enable it easily enough. But I thought that if people had questions they could just ask the posters, and they could if they wanted modify the post.
Please do add comments... I don't really like being snarky, but in lieu of comments I've added a post about one of the loopt jobs - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27310
I fondly remember the joelonsoftware jobs section (back before it was a paid service) when he allowed comments...people really tore into some of the postings.
That's intentional. The companies used to submit links when they were hiring, and I've tried to reproduce that. They'll slide off the frontpage like any story. The site just looks odd at the moment because there was accumulated demand.
Well, if they must be together, could they be tagged consistently as "jobs" (e.g.) so they can be filtered out of the feed?
Alternatively, could you consider grouping all the job items under a separate page tab, next to "new | best | leaders | submit" or just use another subdomain for them, e.g. jobs.ycombinator.com?
Not everyone who reads news.yc is looking for a job, after all.
'... could they be tagged consistently as "jobs" => [location] job title (summary) ...'
the pattern is pretty easy to grep even for humans. It's a good idea to see the entire picture sometimes not just snapshots of it. But I agree with adding a tab. It's not the fastest way, wading through the main index for 'jobs'.
