Closure of the Services Offered and Job Offerings forums

By requinix
Sunday at 02:05 AM in PHPFreaks.com Website Feedback

https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/327182-closure-of-the-services-offered-and-job-offerings-forums/

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What should happen with Services Offered?
4 members have voted

1. What should happen with Services Offered?
- Close it down
  
  4
- Keep the forum but adjust posting requirements (eg. minimum account age or number of posts)
  
  0
- Keep the forum as-is
  
  0
2. What should happen with Job Offerings?
- Close it down
  
  4
- Keep the forum but adjust posting requirements (eg. minimum account age or number of posts)
  
  0
- Keep the forum as-is
  
  0

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Poll closes on 04/04/2025 at 07:00 AM

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requinix

Posted Sunday at 02:05 AM

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Posted Sunday at 02:05 AM

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?