Janet CollinsWhat I hate about online noticeboards
May 7th 2009 06:00
Sometimes I don’t know why they bother having sections in those online noticeboards because hardly anyone seems to take any notice of them. I am talking about the ones that have sections that you can advertise for just about anything. It could be jobs, for sale, to buy, work wanted, dating, etc. Then they have sub-sections for additional categories.
A site I often enjoy going to – after I stumbled across it some time ago – is one of those free to post online notice boards. I love going there for a sticky beak and I always found this site quite interesting.
Lately, however, it is getting more and more frustrating. Just because it is free, many people think they can put their ads all over the place, either paying no attention to place it in an appropriate section or deliberately putting it in a section that is designed for something else.
Take classified ads for instance. I may go into the “For Sale” section, and I come across people offering themselves for work. Or I may go into the “Jobs” section and there are all these people flogging their services, courses, or themselves again. I even found products for sale in there too.
People may think that their ads stand out in a category that is different to what every one else is advertising, but ads in completely irrelevant sections, clogging up the site and making it really difficult to scroll through, is a very sure way to turn away readers from the site altogether.
Surely an ad in a totally wrong section, particularly if it is work related, would give a message to any prospective employer or client that the person really doesn’t know what they are doing.
It’s a pity because I find I am visiting it less and less already.
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