I agree. There are a few people I know of that are running studios, scam, and like to then recruit more people. I think that this is also especially bad for the new people to recruitment. They look at a post, see it has guaranteed payment, and automatically apply. My first jobs were a lot of that.
Aside from scam warnings, there are still a few reasons for opening topics.
Allowing beforehand warning: A lot of people are concerned about internet security, as they should be, but they don’t want to accept random friend requests. They have them apply by replying to the post and giving their discord, to let them know that they friended them, not a rando, and they also give their portfolio. I find this a very efficient way, since you can also get a sense of their skill by doing this.
Asking for more info: Some posts are not written as detailed as others, yes, but replying allows to get more info. I see that the point of this is to get info via DM, but that means one person is getting the information. This also ties into preventing scams. If the person suspiciously dodges giving info, they are probably a scammer.
Conclusion
Personally, people flagging posts was fine. I think there are a number of advantages to keeping #collaboration the way it was. Of course, @DevEngagementTeam has the final say.
This new change is kinda unnecessary since replies helped recruitment posts get attention and each reply bumped said post also.
Without replies, every recruitment post will get buried by others in a few hours and nobody will see them.
The recruitment category barley gets attention from anyone as it is since people gave up on it, it’ll be way harder for developers to hire people because of this.
I swear that Roblox is purposely trying to stop developers from earning money, this is happening to SFX Designers with the Tommy ad and extensions like Roundify and @Quenty’s part to terrain with their functions being added to Studio.
Generally other methods of contact are provided if you are not comfortable with DM’s for whatever reason, such as Discord and Twitter. This flow is much better. When you apply for a job in real life do you do it publicly? no
I’m fine with part to terrain being adde to the Roblox terrain editor, but this is the classic issue with developing tools on a platform, and why making more plugins is a lower priority for me–if you do a good enough job, your feature gets added to the platform.
This honestly… isn’t really a bad update in my opinion. I’m just not used to not seeing any replies on a certain topic for recruitment topics as they always (most of the time) have at least a reply or two to see. I’m just not used to it lol. Especially seeing every recruitment topic getting locked.
I like this new change. Recruitment was a pretty chaotic when the replies were open sometimes,( accusations, mini-modding etc.) and this will prevent this from happening.
However it might be inefficient for towers, its good to let people see your portfolio, to let the know about important info, and contact, etc.
