Qt jobs building surgical navigation systems

[wysota]

After seeing such things I'm wondering whether we should be closing such threads after some time...

[Lykurg]

After seeing such things I'm wondering whether we should be closing such threads after some time...

Yes, I think that is a good idea. When the original thread starter doesn't inform here if the job is still open or not, we should close the tread after some time. I think 6 month is more than enough for such a thread. (If not, someone can start a new request!)

[wysota]

To make things clear: we have been deleting old job threads (like... 'really old'). Today I deleted all the threads created a year ago that didn't receive any replies during last 6 months. I'll think about setting up a cronjob to do that automatically.

[Lykurg]

sounds good

[squidge]

Or, we could just ban the people who reply to 4 year old job postings. They typically are not supporting the board anyway.

[Zlatomir]

Hi guys, i just want make a suggestion, i don't think that delete the job posts it's the best way.

Wysota, your first idea (closing the topic) was better (at least i think so), the jobs offer can remain in the forum as an over-view of the job "market" and the members can look what the companies want from them (experience, knowledge, domain of work with Qt... etc)

And the 6 month term is huge (i don't think that anybody will wait that long to hire someone) so i propose something like: closing the thread in one month (anyway, they usually give email/phone contact information in the original post, so if anyone think that has something to offer, can contact them even after the thread is closed)

Just my opinion

[squidge]

Your post makes sense: After all, sites like cwjobs delete your job advert after 28 days (and you could be paying anything upto £250 to post it), and other sites such as Monster typically do 30 days. Hard to fill jobs can be left open for 60 days but are not typically viewable due to the large amount of new postings.

Since Qt Centre doesn't get as many posting as either of the sites above, 30 days seems a little short, but I agree that 6 months seems too long. Possibly 60 - 90 days? and yes, close the topic instead of deleting it. If someone is determined, they can still PM the thread poster. Its better than having all the job posting for the past 10 years float to the top of the "New posts" window.

[wysota]

Hmm... I'd have to undelete all the deleted threads from that forum... And some have been deleted the hard way And the cronjob I was working hard on today will become useless and I'll have to redo it

[squidge]

Hey, it's your forum and your decision - we are just making suggestions

[wysota]

It's a community forum so it's as much yours as mine.

[Lykurg]

The 6 month was meant as a maximum limit. I think 60 days are enough.
About deleting or closing: Closing is finer, but I don't know if it is worth the additional work is does (It sounds that that can't be done automatically). And I for my part would not search this forum to get information which company hires Qt programmers.

Don't know, I can live fine with both solutions.


@wysota: You work is not useless, I am sure you learned a lot while writing the cron job Non scholae sed vitae discimus! oh, how I hate that sentence...

[wysota]

It sounds that that can't be done automatically

Sure it can. It's just a matter of changing the php script.

@wysota: You work is not useless, I am sure you learned a lot while writing the cron job

Yeah... actually I did But to change "delete" to "close" I have to go through the vB scipts again too see if it's enough to change the status field of a thread to close it.

BTW. Congratulations to Spain

[squidge]

Yeah... actually I did But to change "delete" to "close" I have to go through the vB scipts again too see if it's enough to change the status field of a thread to close it.

I like your research. There seems to be a great loss of that around these forums that prefer to ask instead (mentioning no names of course )

Others would just change the status and refresh the page to see if it worked, and if it didn't, post on the forum for however wrote the forum software