Bad, Bad Bid Requests

See Why I Ignore Your Job Offer for a personal account of and response to bad, bad bid requests.

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The number of jobs that flow through RentACoder is unimaginably immense. Our sympathy goes out to the staff who has to sort through it all and approve each request before it’s made public. Can you imagine processing a thousand or more bid requests a day? Manually?! This is what makes defining appropriate bid requests pretty much impossible. There really are just too many.

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It’s much easier to describe what isn’t appropriate in this case — and that’s just what this section does. Note that the items in this section aren’t exhaustive. As more and more people use RentACoder, the site is bound to encounter new situations that demand new rules. So do yourself a favor and regularly review the official definitions at the RentACoder website. Here, we just summarize stuff…

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