Re: Advertising on the community blog

2009/12/18 Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>:
> On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 17:16 +0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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>> We recently had a job posting on planet.postgresql.org that
>> was pretty much an advertisement for a certain company.
>> I'd like clarification if job postings in general should
>> be allowed or not. The only relevant part on the policy
>> page at:
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>> http://planet.postgresql.org/policy.html
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>> seems to be:
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>> "Publishing of advertising in the syndicated part
>> of your blog is not permitted"
>
> I do not see the OmniTI (being coy about it is silly) posting by Theo as
> anything other than what it is, a job posting that is PostgreSQL related
> that talks about what the company is.

Well, we don't actually have a policy about posting for jobs on
planet. In every other forum we have, it's frowned upon and people are
told to post to pgsql-jobs.

Maybe we need such a policy. But if we do, we first have to decide if
we want job posts or not. So do we want that or not?

That is one part of the question. The other one is to decide if you
think it's a job post or advertising. It certainly *comes across* as
advertising, but I don't think it was necessarily *intended* to be.

I think it's pretty borderline, which is also pretty obvious from the
very different opinions of the posters on this thread.

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