Before the revamp of the forum, I was asked to take down job ads, but maybe things have changed since then. I personally don’t think it would be good for the forum to become a jobs board, since the community already has several places to post jobs.
I think our policy has been pretty consistent since the revamp (I wasn’t around before then), but it’s plausible that the previous policy led people not to post many jobs.
I also don’t want the Forum to become a job board, but I think an occasional post along the lines of this one seems fine; I’m neither an engineer nor a researcher, but I found it interesting to learn what OpenAI was up to.
I see that people don’t seem to like the policy very much (or maybe think it wasn’t handled consistently before). If anyone who downvoted sees this, would you mind explaining what you didn’t like? Do you think we should simply prohibit all job posts, or make sure they never show up on the front page?
I didn’t downvote, but I could imagine someone thinking Halstead had been ‘tricked’ - forced into compliance with a rule that was then revoked without notifying him. If he had been notified he might have wanted to post his own job adverts in the last few years.
Personally I share your intuitions that the occasional interesting job offer is good, but I don’t know how this public goods problem could be solved. No job ads might be the best solution, for all that I enjoyed this one.
Before the revamp of the forum, I was asked to take down job ads, but maybe things have changed since then. I personally don’t think it would be good for the forum to become a jobs board, since the community already has several places to post jobs.
I think our policy has been pretty consistent since the revamp (I wasn’t around before then), but it’s plausible that the previous policy led people not to post many jobs.
I also don’t want the Forum to become a job board, but I think an occasional post along the lines of this one seems fine; I’m neither an engineer nor a researcher, but I found it interesting to learn what OpenAI was up to.
I see that people don’t seem to like the policy very much (or maybe think it wasn’t handled consistently before). If anyone who downvoted sees this, would you mind explaining what you didn’t like? Do you think we should simply prohibit all job posts, or make sure they never show up on the front page?
I didn’t downvote, but I could imagine someone thinking Halstead had been ‘tricked’ - forced into compliance with a rule that was then revoked without notifying him. If he had been notified he might have wanted to post his own job adverts in the last few years.
Personally I share your intuitions that the occasional interesting job offer is good, but I don’t know how this public goods problem could be solved. No job ads might be the best solution, for all that I enjoyed this one.