On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > She was showing someone else here how to edit postings for Perl jobs. > In fact, she wasn't expecting it to post. She thought she was merely > editing an expired post and hadn't intended to post it (yet). > > (Having never looked at the UI myself, I don't know how confusing it > might or might not be. She briefly described her recollection of it > to me on the phone--I didn't visit her desk.) > > In any case, she'll certainly check the URLs and such next time > around. > > Question: if she attempts to edit it and fix it, say tomorrow, will > that result in another posting to the list? Or can she > safely do that without it looking like some clueless Yahoo > HR person spamming the list? She'd obviously like to > correct it, but not if it's gonna spam folks.
If someone edits job posting data, the job is marked as "not approved". That puts it in the "needs attention" queue for an admin (Ask or I, generally). We take a quick look at it to make sure it has enough info and is a Perl job. Assuming it's ok, we will approve it. If the edit is to a job that was just posted recently (in the last week or so) I generally _won't_ resend it to the list. If it's an edit to an older job (one posted >1 month ago) I'll repost it to the list and set the system to update the job's "posted date" so that it shows up on the list of jobs on the site's front page. If someone wanted to edit an existing (but inactive) job but didn't want it approved, then it'd probably be best to email Ask or I with a heads-up asking us not to approve it. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
