# Can I post a help wanted ad? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 25, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-post-a-help-wanted-ad/434984 "2008-01-25T17:50:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-post-a-help-wanted-ad/434984/41 "2008-02-01T14:47:20Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] **Hostile Dialect** : Was that a whoosh? **LurkMeister** : You’re joking. If you aren’t, pick up a newspaper and notice how they keep all the help wanted ads segregated to one section. It benefits everyone, including the people who actually want to read news. **TubaDiva** : You’re speaking like a PR flack. [/QUOTE] And you’re making a mountain out of a molehill. But whatever makes you happy. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-post-a-help-wanted-ad/434984/42 "2008-02-01T15:41:31Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] **LurkMeister** : You’re joking. If you aren’t, pick up a newspaper and notice how they keep all the help wanted ads segregated to one section. It benefits everyone, including the people who actually want to read news. [/QUOTE] What does that have to do with SDMB? This is a message board, not a newspaper. Following your analogy we should have separate forums for sports, religion, news, business, local events, cooking, theater, etc, etc. so that people who want to read about them don’t have to be exposed to topics they aren’t interested in. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-post-a-help-wanted-ad/434984/43 "2008-02-01T19:17:44Z")
I’m a bit surprised. I would have thought this was close enough to a commercial matter that there’d at least be some discussion with the higher-ups. But I don’t make/interpret/enforce the rules. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-post-a-help-wanted-ad/434984/44 "2008-02-01T23:10:52Z")
There was discussion; anything like this gets discussed. Usually they write for permission first and it either gets posted to the board as approved or you never hear of it because we turned it down. While we frown on commercial exploitation of the board (unless you’re buying an ad) we do allow what we consider to be useful situations. In the situation above a member of the board might get a gig out of this; potentially another member fills a job. This is nothing but a good thing. We see no harm and some potential good in allowing such a thread on the board. It’s not like we get a lot of these situations, this isn’t Monster or anything like that. I do not understand why this is such a big deal. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-post-a-help-wanted-ad/434984/45 "2008-02-02T00:45:10Z")
It’s not. ONE poster has made a fuss. We ought to learn to let single posters vent without it becoming a free for all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-post-a-help-wanted-ad/434984/46 "2008-02-02T01:02:32Z")
I would suggest we encourage him to start soliciting his own help wanted ads: > [@](#): > > Wanted: a message board that doesn’t allow ANY ads Heh, yah of course I’m joking. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-post-a-help-wanted-ad/434984/47 "2008-02-02T06:23:28Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] ONE poster has made a fuss. We ought to learn to let single posters vent without it becoming a free for all. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Heh. Or, perhaps, snort. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-post-a-help-wanted-ad/434984/48 "2008-02-02T13:34:36Z")
From the Registration Agreement: > [@](#): > > Do not post spam, including but not limited to advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, solicitations, offers to trade or barter, charitable appeals, or other messages primarily intended to promote a cause, venture, organization, event (except Straight Dope-related events), website, or other entity or activity, whether or not money is involved. We allow exceptions for worthy causes (in our sole opinion) if you obtain prior permission from a moderator or administrator. It ain’t anything new. > [@Dereleth](#): > > **TubaDiva:** You’re speaking like a PR flack. Personal insults belong in the Pit, not here. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-post-a-help-wanted-ad/434984/49 "2008-02-02T19:53:34Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] Personal insults belong in the Pit, not here. [/QUOTE] ISTM that **Derleth** was attacking **TubaDiva** ’s words, not **TubaDiva** herself. Obnoxious as the process may have been. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-post-a-help-wanted-ad/434984.md?page=2)