Spam is the new normal.
Spam is a symptom of a larger problem.
Inefficiency.
I look at job listings and the problem is visible there. It's visible other places, such as standard search results. I don't like it. One bad idea somehow gained such a foothold that now everybody does it. They claim it works.
It's click bait, and as a user trying to seek out useful information I find it a hindrance.
I don't want to the the same job either listed exactly the same way (title and everything) in the every city/town around. It's misleading, it's cluttering up the results squeezing out a job I might actually be qualified for and/or want. I've seen US Customs do it for a job that is in an entirely different part of the country. In the (excessively long) posting they at least say you won't be posted near your home but still if I wanted a job in another part of the country I would search based on where I wanted to be working.
I've seen a lot of truck driver jobs (CDL A gigs mostly) do it as well. I would expect places with a higher turnover rate to be more likely to succumb to this tactic. If they have trouble fulfilling openings it seems like that would spike the odds they'd start spamming as well. In addition to reposting the same job daily or every couple days without removing the prior listing for the opening. Ug, it's like they are polluting the internet but they don't get fined and there's no real downside for them so they just keep on making it worse. They act as a bad example, if they can do it, why can't others? Then it becomes the norm. Nobody tries to stop the problem or make it better. Instead they stop caring and just accept that that's how things are.
If only I could start with a mostly unrefined search (not searching for a particular job title for example) and then "Hide" or filter out certain types of results. I could hide the nursing and long distance truck driver jobs to start with. While I'm at it let me report listings as spam.
When I look at jobs I feel like a square peg looking at a sea of round holes. I often feel the same way when looking around on the dating site as well. Where is the right fit?