www.drupaljob.com - a Free Classified Job Board for Drupal Paid Services

drupal_jobs - May 19, 2007 - 06:27

www.drupaljob.com

Here is my new contribution to the Community. Created on my extended lunch
break, www.drupaljob.com is a Free Classified Job Board for
companies seeking Drupal Technical Help, and for Drupal Experts seeking Job
opportunities. Drupaljob.com job forums deliver finer granularity than the
single, flat Paid Drupal Services forum on Drupal.org, and represents an
un-moderated, free-for-all, classified forum, for posting legitimate, commercial
help-wanted Drupal ad’s.

I hope you find this site useful. Feedback and wish lists are appreciated--
please try (very hard) to maintain drupaljob.com posts and comments, to a high
and professional standard. A bit more about me in my About page.

Yours truly,

The drupaljob.com Guy

May the Force Be With You

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Sorry, bad credability problem.

dman - May 19, 2007 - 08:10

First, to appeal to the community you'll find here, I'd suggest turning on Drupal authentication, so drupal.org users can log on. It's not a perfect solution, but I think it'll help.

Second, I'm wary of committing any professional input into a site which posts uncredited plagarized articles as original content.

Basically, my third click within your site took me to
http://www.drupaljob.com/development-project-staff-who-live-far-you
which, due to several obvious clues looked suspiciously unoriginal.
I found what may (or may not) be the original article you copied at
http://builder.com.com/5100-6401-1045610.html
by Kathrine Wright Published: 11/13/01

_{for all I know, that version itself may be drawn out of an open-license pool of uncopyrighted articles that you drew on, but still deserves being attributed as such}

There may be more articles like that, I simply didn't bother investigating further.

Now ... I know you may just be wanting to fill up the space and make it look like a real site, but any web professional should know that online IP theft is not the way to go about it. At least provide a reference disclaimer and link to [original article sourced from...]

I couldn't take the site seriously enough to keep looking. Are those clip-art photos licensed, BTW?
I can't reconcile the bio you published with such a blatent slip of nettiquette.

Can you explain?

.dan.
How to troubleshoot Drupal | http://www.coders.co.nz/

I was web coding when 'dman' was still potty training

drupal_jobs - May 19, 2007 - 17:41

As I say, on my site...

Sometimes Drupal newbie’s are (understandably) hesitant on posting commercially related help-wanted ad’s on the main Drupal.org site (I’ve seen many not-too-bright flames and comments), so here’s a site where you can freely post, in a un-moderated, uninhibited fashion.

Please, less shooting from the hip...

credability -2

dman - May 20, 2007 - 10:23

I saw your bio - when I went looking for your sites disclaimer - and I was asking, as respectfully as possible, why you are using unattributed, copied content to fill your site up.
That's a newbie mistake, and would be forgivable as such, but not from anyone who's followed the growth of the web.

I'm not attempting to attack your site or much less your person. But your immediate ad-hominum response seems strangely juvenile, especially given your claim on seniority.
Also, just calling "seniority" as a justification for doing something wrong is also ludicrous.
Claiming to have been 'web coding' 16+ years before the accepted date of the 'invention' of the web likewise makes your attack seem more like hollow bombast.

I was suggesting you improve something that is currently damaging your sites credability.

I'm pointing out that "gee, you seem to still have some inappropriate text on that site or something - better fix that, it looks bad".
There are a half dozen reasonable reasons why you may have posted that copied article like that.
Maybe you did in fact purchase a license to do so.
Maybe you found it in a place that led you to believe it was public domain.
Maybe it really is public domain.
Maybe it's just lorem ipsum you put there to fill space.
I won't believe it was your ignorance of Intellectual Property issues.

But I invite you to explain, expecting you to respond "Whoops, I'll fix that" and instead you go all scatalogical against me as an individual.
Fine. Very professional. Sorry for trying to be constructive.

.dan.
How to troubleshoot Drupal | http://www.coders.co.nz/