Not to name any names, but I don’t think it is appropriate with the current route of the dev forums becoming more open, for New Members to have access to posting on Public Recruitment. I’m not bringing this up to say necessarily that post on there are being abused, but to point out that other new users or people just browsing the category can be easily schemed. I’m also appalled that an account, only created 3 months ago, can access this category, post completely false information, and this is what really gets me new members think they are legit and try to get in contact with them to hire them. This is a huge problem, this forum is meant to have standards and when people start posting “Looking for X” or “Here is what I made” with completely vague information about themselves on a relatively new account, legitimate New Members can possibly be scammed.
Now it’s not a big issue seeing as the community finds these people fairly quickly and the Top Contributors take care of the issue, but the problem still arises where people with almost no development knowledge, on a < 3 month old account, can easily post a topic in a place where people are looking to be recruited or recruit in a category where, since this is the dev forum and the quality of work should show that, can easily be manipulated by outsiders.
In conclusion, we need better, faster vetting of these types of Public categories to prevent people that are not developers from scamming unexpected users. We also need to fix the New Member roles and stop giving them out to new accounts that are < 3 months old just because they frequent the forums and if this system is kept in place, their post need to be looked over to prevent frauds from entering the community, where a few cases have already arisen in the recent past.