Anonymous economics online rumor board posters get their locations identified

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As for why in Econ, as I recall it has a culture of much more openness about the job market (ie who is being interviewed where). Partly this emerged, I assume, from it being a discipline where most people get jobs (either in academia or the corporate/nonprofit/worldbank/etc) - unlike history, or classics, etc.

Anyhow, when I was a grad student the Econ Job Rumors board was notorious for people slamming those who were getting interviewed, speculating on who would get jobs (by name), because so much information was public.

I actually think that level of public-ness was more healthy in its way than the paranoid secrecy of the humanities.

But yes, Econ Job Rumors was always full of bitchy grad students and postdocs who were annoyed when they didn't get a gig.