Last updated by christefano on Thu, 2009-04-02 15:38
A member of the community recently posted a job posting that didn't follow the job posting guidelines (the job wasn't Drupal-specific) and it was quickly unpublished. I sent the member a message through his contact form and have copied it below. Please consider using this as a template when removing inappropriately-posted job listings.
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Hello,
Thanks for taking an interest in the Drupal community and posting the job for [company]. Unfortunately, I unpublished the job listing because the job is not Drupal-specific and therefore doesn't follow our job posting guidelines.
Technically, the post is only unpublished so it's still visible and editable if you log into your account:
http://groups.drupal.org/user/login?destination=node/[node-id]
If this job actually does include Drupal-specific work, please consider revising the post to make that more clear and we'll consider republishing it. I've included the job posting guidelines at the bottom of this message and they are also found at the top of the page when posting a job:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/add/job
If you write back and don't receive an immediate reply, please don't take it personally. Most of us are very busy and we are all volunteers. You are always welcome to contact the entire Maintenance team by posting questions and feedback in the Maintenance group:
http://groups.drupal.org/maintenance
Thanks!
~ [your name]
* Drupal specific jobs only.
* Please post your job listing to no more than 4 groups. If you post to more than 4 groups, you will get one warning, after which you will have your posting privileges revoked.
* Please understand that your post is read by many people via RSS feeds and various web sites. Please be sensitive to this when you post, as you might be sending the same job listing four times to the same person. They probably won't want to apply if they receive that kind of spam.
* Please, do not post the same job multiple times, even if it is over the course of months. Instead, edit your existing job post.
Comments
Looks good
My only nit is what does "deposited" mean in that context. Did you mean "unpublished"?
Michelle
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"Why your job post has been unpublished" was too long
Yes, "unpublished" is the correct word but it didn't fit in the subject of the contact form so I used "deposted" instead. The other word that came to mind was "removed" but that could have meant that it was deleted, unpublished, removed from the group, etc. so I went for another word.
Ah
Took another re-read to realize you have made up a new word, "deposted". I thought it said, "deposited" which left me wondering where you had deposited the post. LOL! I'd sooner use "removed" than make up a new word.
Michelle
See my Drupal articles and tutorials or come check out the Coulee Region
Your comment made me wonder
Your comment made me wonder how long I've been using that word. Surely enough, it doesn't exist in any of my dictionaries! I searched for it in my email and found that I've been using this text for my sites' commenting guidelines for years:
In case you missed it, the whole reason I used that word rather than "unpublished" was because I wanted the subject to say "Why your post has been taken down" instead of using language like "Your post has been taken down" (which is much more blunt and, in my opinion, less likely to evoke a positive response). I wonder why the contact form's subject field is limited to 50 characters.