What if we only allowed job postings from people looking for work, that should 
make things a bit quieter no?

— Ivan

On 08/10/2012, at 3:55 PM, Keith Pitt <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't like bitching about stuff, so I'm not going to.
> 
> Can we not just not allow job posts for this group? I'm not sure how helpful 
> they are. They are just spam for me. There are plenty of good sites job 
> postings if people are looking.
> 
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> On Monday, 8 October 2012 at 3:50 PM, Julio Cesar Ody wrote:
> 
>> On topic being the one-off actually technical question we get once
>> every month or so?
>> 
>> Every now and then, a thread bitching about job posts comes up, and it
>> just pushes people a bit closer to unsubscribing. It doesn't prevent
>> anything from happening (as it should be clear by now). It just adds
>> to the annoyance, often being worse than the posts that are the topic
>> of the complaint.
>> 
>> Newsflash: sometimes, people who don't know about the guidelines will
>> post. Wanna fix the problem? Become a moderator.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Daniel Draper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Can I suggest that people use Codehire.com for this kind of thing? Its
>>> exactly this sort of problem that we set out to solve. Right now its free to
>>> list and we'll be giving coders the ability to subscribe to jobs of interest
>>> very soon. It will keep Rails Oceania (and other boards for that matter) a
>>> bit more on topic!
>>> 
>>> (Disclaimer: Yes, Codehire is my site :))
>>> 
>>> On 8 October 2012 13:30, Michael Pearson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Would you like to earn $80 for one hour of your time and are in the Sydney
>>>> CBD?
>>>> 
>>>> Talk to me, and I'll refer you to somebody. You'll have to pretend to be
>>>> me and give me $150, but I'll give you $80, honest.
>>>> 
>>>> ..
>>>> 
>>>> Ok.
>>>> 
>>>> There's been quite a few questionable job postings lately. By
>>>> "questionable" I mean "copy/paste the standard Looking for a Ninja/Great
>>>> Dynamic Company seek.com.au template". Recruiters I've never seen on the
>>>> list before. It's getting kind of spammy.
>>>> 
>>>> This isn't helping, but I can't actually find out who moderates this list
>>>> through the Google Groups interface, so we all get to argue about it here.
>>>> 
>>>> I like using RORO as a discussion forum AND as a recruitment/job pool.
>>>> It's not going to have value as either if this "free classifieds" stuff
>>>> keeps up.
>>>> 
>>>> The $150 / Sydney thing is a nice example. Is it $150 or $120? I dunno,
>>>> hit send, don't talk to your client.
>>>> 
>>>> I've got a suggestion: if you've never posted on the list before, and your
>>>> first posting is a job ad, you've gotta come to a meetup first. Otherwise,
>>>> there's not much that's difference between whatever you're about to post 
>>>> and
>>>> what can be found on seek.com.au.
>>>> 
>>>> I would rather a low traffic list than one I have to filter out.
>>>> 
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