Contacting the owners of this forum

4X4Dodger wrote:
To all of those that posit the really rather weak argument that closing of the threads of job postings somehow benefits the employer or protects the "feelings" of the employers Please consider this:

Companies don't have feelings. Further, most truly professional companies who post positions on boards like these EXPECT feedback both positive and negative. It just comes with the territory.

Additionally lets turn your argument on it's head:

By closing the posts you deny the employer the BENEFIT of those who have worked for them to write about the positive aspects of doing so, thus giving a de-facto rating of sorts. This positive feedback can be of the HIGHEST value for an employer by helping to convince others that the job is really OK.

The last but most disturbing outcome of closing the threads is this:

It ASSUMES that those of us who use and read this forum are too stupid or too gullible to be able to separate the valuable from the worthless, the rant from the thoughtful response, the ring of truth from the hollow sound of sour grapes.

Give me a break. Stop assuming the readers and the employers are a bunch of children that need the protection of an overweening philosophy of Moderation that stifles all the good things in the dubious cause of "protecting" the feelings of the employers.

Your arguments basically come down to two ideas. The one stated above, the "protection" argument and the "Love It or Leave It" argument. Two arguments that are stark in their lack of logic or basis in fact.

What this really comes down to is this: A decision has been made and more for reasons of pride and privilege than anything else it seems there is an unwillingness to consider any other point of view. Or heaven forbid lose face in reconsidering that decision.

This is a sad state of affairs and frankly a response that reflects badly on GSE, this site and the majority of good fair minded people that work for GSE and those that give their time as moderators.

You are 100% wrong. Companies most certainly have feelings, or least the people who own them and work there do. They care what people say. Why do you think big companies have multi million dollar public relations departments? And why do you think big companies sue when they are slandered? You now have two potential employers, myself and The Texan saying they aren't going to be posting any positions on this forum because of the negative feedback those help wanted ads generate. Haven't seen any potential employers chime in saying they would post some positions if the policy was changed and bashing was encouraged. If you want feedback on any employer of workampers, start a thread. That is OK under the rules and will be allowed to run under the normal forum rules. For all I care, start a shadow thread every time a job is posted, you can be the leadoff slammer. But I can see you are like the other bashers, you don't find that to be nearly as much fun as slamming them in their ad.