Hm. This may be fuzzy memory on my part, but I thought I remembered downvoting this post, seeing it at -5, and now it's at 0 and I haven't downvoted it. I really hope that's fuzzy memory on my part.
Downvoted the post based on the intervention you described. Normally I'd have upvoted.
I do want to stress that I'm not certain I downvoted the post before I wrote this comment. It's plausible that 5 people upvoted the post because they wanted it to be visible. That's still an intervention I'm uneasy about, but the unease is much lower.
Hiring is so hard that we spent a man-month creating a sub-startup to do it. The product is the Quixey Challenge which is running today until 7pm PST (GMT-8).
Benefits of playing: