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"Interested" Is a Feeling. An Application Is Evidence.
Somebody posts an opening with a link to apply, and the comments stack up underneath: interested, interested, interested. It isn't laziness. It's what happens after the forty-seventh application disappears into silence and a comment box shows up attached to an actual human. The impulse makes sense and the move still fails, because a comment produces no application, no role, and no way to advance you. Here's why going around a broken system is not the same as skipping the step that creates a record of you, plus the five-step sequence that works and the exact language to use instead.
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