Steve Hoeksema <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm fine with them, even though I'm not looking. It's a useful
> barometer of who's hiring, where, for what jobs, and for how much.

Likewise. I think this information keeps it generally useful, even to those not 
actively looking for work.


Michael Pearson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can we get stricter on the guidelines? Name the customer or keep it to seek? 
> That's valuable.


That sounds like a good idea to me.

— Paul




On 08/10/2012, at 4:13 PM, Michael Pearson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not really. I think that this group is still a really useful resource for 
> those looking for people or looking for work, primarily because those posting 
> have cross the invisible barrier of "care enough about Ruby to be involved". 
> Most of the job postings in the past have been a cut above the normal - and 
> as somebody who's posted his own ad, so have the candidates.
> 
> The problem I have with some of the postings coming through lately is that 
> they're "blind". There's the minimum amount of research performed to 
> determine that the list exists, that it's a good resource for Ruby people, 
> and if you're lucky they've bothered to read the guidelines and have put 
> [JOB] in the title.
> 
> But, unfortunately, I don't know them from jack. They could be just resume 
> farming. Some have pointed out that they like to know who's hiring: those 
> aren't the emails I'm talking about. I'm talking about the blind, 
> won't-name-the-customer ads.
> 
> Can we get stricter on the guidelines? Name the customer or keep it to seek? 
> That's valuable.
> 
> I'm also, as a consequence of people suggesting this to me (you know who you 
> are), volunteering to help moderate the list.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Ivan Vanderbyl <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 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.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Keith Pitt
>> Sent with Sparrow
>> 
>> 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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