[rurounijones]

Cynical part of me sees all the people saying "EFF should give it back to show integrity" and wondering if that wasn't the hope all along from craigslist.

I would hope that EFF does not give it back but uses it to continue the good fight or donate it to another, unrelated, charity if they believe the money is tainted.

[justonepost]

Everyone is just frustrated that Craigslist charges so little for their services and hasn't tried to monetize it in some abuse way like a typical capitalistic company would.

[MichaelCrawford]

Craigslist charges for job posts in competitive markets; the posts disappear after thirty days.

I charge nothing for listings at http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/ and they are permanent.

Among my objectives is to eliminate the corrupting influence of money from technical hiring.

In the long run I want to cover every occupation in which one can find a job by applying through the employer's website.

I won't monetize it in any way. Or perhaps I could say I will monetize it by offering my consulting services through my website, as I always have. Providing free content on my site results in sales leads.

[eru]

> Among my objectives is to eliminate the corrupting influence of money from technical hiring.

You know most people make compensation part of their decision on who to work for / who to hire? You can get money out of any kind of hiring..

[MichaelCrawford]

I don't regard that as corruption.

What I do regard as corruption, is when a recruiter convinces a manager that they can find qualified staff, then expect thirty grand in commissions by placing someone whose rigor mortis is not quite started,

[simoncion]

> ...someone whose rigor mortis is not quite started

I'll bite. What the heck does this mean?

[MichaelCrawford]

They are deceased, but not yet cold.

I am good at my work, I take pride in it but recruiters commonly solicit me for perm or contract work for which I am completely unqualified. For example I do osx device drivers and windows gui so on a damn near daily basis I am approached by recruiters who want to submit me for windows device driver work, even at microsoft.

Their applicant tracking systems other do not support exact phrase matching or the recruiters dont know what it is. Neither do they ever attempt to read my resume, not even when they do submit me.

Many of my "colleagues" were obvious imposters who found work through recruiters. The recruiters dont care, they get paid, see.

[pbreit]

Why would a job listing be permanent? Don't they ever get filled?

[MichaelCrawford]

My links are all just like http://www.google.com/jobs/

When google has an opening they post it on their own site.

My index provides three items of value: a list of tech employer organized geographically, links to their jobs pages and link to their contact pages.

Its not always obvious what businesses are in one's city. Quite commonly jobs are posted on corporate sites but the jobs section of their own sites arent linked from anywhere. I often have to guess:

example.com/careers example.com/careers.htm example.com/about/jobs.aspx

Im working on a python program that will try out all the common locations.

Among the reasons that startup companies fail is that their websites are steaming piles.

[simoncion]

> My links are all just like http://www.google.com/jobs/

So... you're entirely unlike CL jobs postings.

[MichaelCrawford]

Yes.

Thats because I dont regard craigslist job postings as useful to anyone.

I built my first index just for santa cruz county, on north monterey bay, to assist my coworkers in bailing from live picture because kate mitchell got the bright idea to shorten her commute by moving our office to san jose.

Just before our announced IPO, there was a reverse seven to one stock split, Kate resigned, live picture declared bankrupcy.

Dont Piss Me Off.