Re: Advertising on the community blog

Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 19:11 +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>
>>> I would remove the subcriber from planet.
>>>
>> I think that would be quite an overreaction.
>>
>
> I disagree. If we won't apply rules, why do we write it?
>

In some people's minds, "advertising" means you're trying to sell
something, whereas Theo's trying to buy something (in this case, some
future employee's soul). Now, a quick check of ye olde Merriam-Webster
suggests advertising is "the action of calling something to the
attention of the public..." which means that this is technically a
violation, and a knee-jerk banning could be justified if you really
wanted to be a jerk about it. But I think you need a clarification of
policy in this fuzzy area before you're justified in kicking people out
for violating it.

Had there been an explicit policy against soliciting for a job, I'm sure
the commentary about the changing role of the DBA--which is itself an
interesting topic I enjoyed reading his thoughts about and completely
appropriate for Planet distribution IMHO--would have been rewritten to
be more general and just ended with suggesting OmniTI likes to work with
such people instead.

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