Closure of the Services Offered and Job Offerings forums

[requinix]

Services Offered has been a place for people to offer their services for hire. Over time, it's "evolved" to support companies to announce themselves as well (provided their services are on-topic), and today it primarily functions as a pseudo-sanctioned forum for spam. There's a slight moderation burden in monitoring it for off-topic spam and removing replies (which are against rules but the forum software isn't able to enforce this adequately).
Job Offerings has been the other side of the coin, where people and companies could post about jobs they have available. It doesn't see much activity these days - 5 threads in the last two years.

Given that Services Offered is more of a burden than a benefit and that Job Offerings isn't much of an offering anymore, we're looking to close them down within the next week or so. Thoughts?

[requinix]

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[AlokD]

There must be open option to express someone's services/support offer at some place where user can find it easily. Discussions are the best approach to discuss such things. I am not in favor of closing such threads/category where vendor or user can discuss their issues.

[requinix]

3 hours ago, AlokD said:

There must be open option to express someone's services/support offer at some place where user can find it easily.

Yeah, it's called "the internet". There's a whole bunch of it out there.

[gizmola]

On 5/8/2025 at 11:49 PM, AlokD said:

There must be open option to express someone's services/support offer at some place where user can find it easily. Discussions are the best approach to discuss such things. I am not in favor of closing such threads/category where vendor or user can discuss their issues.

 

We had a vote that was open to any and all active users.  We get a lot of reading these days, but not as many posters as in years past.  I appreciate your taking the time to post, but people that bothered to post, all voted to close it, so unfortunately your opinion comes a bit too late.