Qt jobs building surgical navigation systems

**wysota** · 11th July 2010, 14:45

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** · 11th July 2010, 15:02

sounds good

**squidge** · 11th July 2010, 17:18

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

**Zlatomir** · 11th July 2010, 17:22

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** · 11th July 2010, 20:39

Your post makes sense: After all, sites like cwjobs delete your job advert after 28 days (and you could be paying anything upto Â£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** · 11th July 2010, 21:05

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** · 11th July 2010, 21:28

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

**wysota** · 11th July 2010, 21:36

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

**Lykurg** · 11th July 2010, 21:45

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** · 11th July 2010, 22:09

Originally Posted by Lykurg

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** · 11th July 2010, 22:54

Originally Posted by wysota

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

**wysota** · 11th July 2010, 23:41

Originally Posted by fatjuicymole

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

)

Yeah, well... the difference is I have to do the research just once and the next time I'll have a similar problem, I'll know where to look for a solution. And others will come back with a similar problem in a couple of days... no names of course. On the side note - and of course someone else will do the research for them again (no names of course).

Others would just change the status and refresh the page to see if it worked,

We do have a test forum but it's not that simple. The thread might be closed but some counters may not be updated or something. And if I don't know where to look, it's hard to find the answer.

and if it didn't, post on the forum for however wrote the forum software

Unfortunately not on all forums one gets an answer after 15 minutes from posting.

BTW. I just ruined a second DVD disk trying to burn an iso image... how I love my burner