The purpose of the sub isn't to discourage people from going to bootcamps, nor is it to encourage. It's just to talk about them.
I totally see where you are coming from and I personally agree with the sentiment but I also don't want to make an official statement that they are objectively wrong.
u/Real-Set-1210 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
How about put it to a community vote?
u/michaelnovatireplied·
I think a sticky poll maybe would be ok, maybe we do it monthly. We have a problem with manipulation though - so much obvious spam stuff gets caught by Reddit daily.
u/Real-Set-1210 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
How would profiting from it not be a financial tie, dude?
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Do you mean financial interest in people doing bootcamps or not doing bootcamps or just either way?
I would say I have a bias that more engineers == more customers but for bootcamp grads it's years down the road, and I don't financially benefit directly.
If the entire industry collapsed it would be just as likely that we move earlier career in several years as it would be that we benefit from bootcamps booming and producing more unprepared people.
So like as long as there are engineers I benefit in a sense. There could be some minor second or third tier impacts but it's not a major conflict.
u/jhkoenig wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Oh, wow, I didn't know that! Maybe we post that factoid (using sock puppet accounts of course so not to get banned) on every "isn't TripleTen great with their money-back guarantee?" posting.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Yeah a lot of stuff gets blocked by Reddit and it's for programs that are rarely talked about making them sound like everyone does them.
Others are just brand new accounts coming out of nowhere deep on many months old threads adding slightly positive comments to them... much more sneaky.
u/jhkoenig wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Makes sense. I've seen a similar behavior over on r/jobsearchhacks where the mods seem to have a financial interest in some pay-to-play job hunting app. When I post an update on my FREE job hunting app that is marginally competitive with theirs, it is quickly deleted by the mods.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Yeah I did a deep dive into a person who does this and found dozens of accounts and since they were all connected like a crime scene string map and it was insane. I'm scared of trusting a lot of things. And these accounts were warmed with tens of thousands of karma...
u/Real-Set-1210 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
With this hitting 200 up votes I think the community has spoken! Let's get this pinned and curb these posts and ideally, curb the enrollments.
Need me to draft it up?
u/michaelnovatireplied·
I was thinking about this and how do you feel about sticky FAQ vibe thing that covers what to do about common questions like this, and then the mods can remove posts that don't follow that and tell people to ready the FAQ?
This sub is "politically" neutral so we can explicitly say don't go.
We can say, the market is very challenging right now and multiple times a day people come here seeking advice so you need to read through things before posting asking about which bootcamp to go to.