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Ben Voigt
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Does participation here mean expropriation of author moral, i.e. unalienable, rights?
You have a moral right to not have the words of others passed off as yours. That would be fraud. But that does not occur here, the edit history clearly shows who added what.
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Why does the careers 2.0 site cater to programmers only?
@AndrewB: I have found one piece of evidence that suggests non-development skills are valued: a Careers profile can link to answers on more sites than just SO. But only the one, and in light of the overwhelming focus on development (profile wants you to link source code repositories for open source projects and contributions, etc), that could just be an acknowledgement of the vertical market skills many programmers possess.
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Why does the careers 2.0 site cater to programmers only?
That's a serious question, btw. If the careers team is reviewing all postings and explicitly approving the "come be a salesperson for our startup" garbage (scam), I'll know it's a listing site I don't want to be a part of.
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Why does the careers 2.0 site cater to programmers only?
It's not "Stack Exchange's version". It's what Stack Exchange built to be StackOverflow's job site. Do the Careers Sales team review every advert? I seriously doubt it, based on the quality of what gets in. I suspect they only approve on a per company basis, and the company is then free to post a certain number of openings and contact a certain number of users. Or maybe the latter is unlimited. Spamminess of the requests I saw certainly suggest it is unlimited.
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Why does the careers 2.0 site cater to programmers only?
@RobM: So some posts on careers.stackoverflow.com are off-topic, how is that a surprise? People post sysadmin questions on SO frequently. They are off-topic and get closed. (Certainly all those who contacted me before I blocked inquiries were horrible fits, my impression is that headhunters don't care about good matches at all) Sysadmin job postings would be appropriate on a site named "careers.stackexchange.com", as your comments and answer seems to assume that it is. But it is not. There still is room for "careers.serverfault.com". It just doesn't exist yet.
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