# Guidelines on posting and responding to jobs

**URL:** <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/guidelines-on-posting-and-responding-to-jobs/3416>\
**Category:** Job Postings\
**Created:** [April 7, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/guidelines-on-posting-and-responding-to-jobs/3416 "2023-04-07T13:00:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jdittrich](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jdittrich/32/42_2.png) [@jdittrich](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jdittrich)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/guidelines-on-posting-and-responding-to-jobs/3416/1 "2023-04-07T13:00:19Z")

</div>

See the [job board](https://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/) or have dicussions about the job in the [job category here on discourse](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/c/job-postings/19)

# ✍ Posting a job

- Go to [Jobs - Submit a Job](https://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/job-form/) . Don’t post directly via Discourse (aka the site you are on right now)
- Jobs must be related to work on a [Free/Libre and Open Source](https://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/job-form/#floss) project.

# 📄 Responding to a job post

Over 2024 and 2025 the core maintainer team noticed a lot of responses to job posts that were word for word or very similar to many other job post replies. We’re kindly asking people interested in contributing to OSS gratis jobs or applying for paid roles to follow the rules detailed below to avoid risk of your account being flagged or banned due to copy-paste responses.

- Please, **do not** use generic copy-pasted responses. If you are suspected of copy pasting responses to jobs then you will be **warned 3 times and then permanently banned at the 4th attempt**. You can appeal this by emailing [core@opensourcedesign.net](mailto:core@opensourcedesign.net)

- Please avoid copy-paste suspicious activity where you copy and paste the same/similar responses to multiple job posts. To avoid flagging as copy-paste, **please do reference the name of the OSS project that posted the job in your forum response.**

- Please do not reply to a job post asking the poster to reply to a mobile phone number, whatsapp number/account or any other similar account (e.g. Telegram, Signal etc.). This is to avoid spam/scamming happening off our forum. You must content the OSS project via the method stated on their Job Post (e.g. email, matrix chat room etc.)

- We encourage you to introduce yourself in the [Intro thread](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/introductions-come-in-say-hi/41) before responding to a job post.

> **Background Infos – history log**
>
> - Update October 2024: Set _create_ permissions to [trust level 4 (aka leader)](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/), remove _create_ from role _everyone_.
> - Update July 2024: Deleted the “browse Jobs” headline (was only useful when this was the landing post for the discourse-as-replacement job-board) and rename to “Guidelines on posting and responding to jobs” since both of these are covered here now (see June 2024)
> - Update as of June 2024: we’ve implemented some rules for individuals responding to Job posts saying they want to work with them/contribute
> - Update early 2024: The [old job board](https://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/) is up again, so job posts are not created as a forum post anymore
> - ~~We have/had a job board that we could [post to via a form](https://opensourcedesign.net/jobs/job-form/), but the [job board is down](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/jobs-boards-down/3358/20) at the moment, so posting the jobs here directly is our alternative until the form is fixed.~~

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jdittrich](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jdittrich/32/42_2.png) [@jdittrich](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jdittrich)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2023, 1:05pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/guidelines-on-posting-and-responding-to-jobs/3416/2 "2023-04-07T13:05:04Z")

</div>



---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jdittrich](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jdittrich/32/42_2.png) [@jdittrich](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jdittrich)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2023, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/guidelines-on-posting-and-responding-to-jobs/3416/3 "2023-04-12T17:14:51Z")

</div>



---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jdittrich](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jdittrich/32/42_2.png) [@jdittrich](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jdittrich)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 9:46am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/guidelines-on-posting-and-responding-to-jobs/3416/4 "2024-03-17T09:46:20Z")

</div>



---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jdittrich](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jdittrich/32/42_2.png) [@jdittrich](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jdittrich)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/guidelines-on-posting-and-responding-to-jobs/3416/5 "2024-09-18T15:47:04Z")

</div>



---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Erioldoesdesign](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/erioldoesdesign/32/2895_2.png) [@Erioldoesdesign](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/Erioldoesdesign)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/guidelines-on-posting-and-responding-to-jobs/3416/6 "2025-10-17T14:21:02Z")

</div>