Thanks for reporting this... if that's the case, it's something we'd love to know about and deal... accordingly :)
Please report the employer on that particular message. Choose "Something else" and explain what you see wrong with the employer message.
We don't tolerate recruiter spam, so please make sure to report this (and any other spammy message). We don't want to become that place where you get tens of totally garbage messages per day.
We do want employers to provide feedback (even if it's automatic) when they've made an offer (we understand that's a better candidate experience than never hearing back). However, sending an automatic message right away just to game the system... that's definitely wrong.
UPDATE: In this particular instance, the customer has set up an email address to receive applications. They receive applications from Stack Overflow but potentially, from other sources as well.
When they do, they send back an autoreply confirming the reception of the application, which is a nice thing to do if you're doing so via email.
I'm working on tweaking our badges logic so that it doesn't take into consideration replies that are too fast for the badge.
UPDATE 2: The logic to award badges has been tweaked. 51 company pages and 65 jobs lost their "High response rate" badge thanks to this change.
