I dream of a reputation system where people can flag those they've worked with as being good collaborators, and wonder if it would be useful to add a means to verify one's identity as a show of trust. What's stopping you from using the job board? Maybe I can fix it

We know that any application will get spammed with invalid submissions from around the world, but unfortunately that's table stakes for a public online job board. What we'd like, though, is to provide more ways for those who engage honestly to rise to the top

What I (@vcarl.com) am most excited about, though, is that this is directly powered by our Discord bot that enforces our job board rules. Where previously these messages were simply ingested and published as they came in, now they must pass a series of validation tests before being shared

For one: the new bot is able to forward a real-time feed of reactions that have been applied from members in the community, which adds a ton of signal as to what posts can be trusted

This had actually gotten quite crufty over the years, and the bot powering the job board on our website finally gave up the ghost in December, no longer publishing new posts. This is a from-scratch rewrite that takes advantage of a bunch of recent improvements within the server, and tees up more

To be clear: the hard part was keeping it _under_ 150. Too many wonderful, thoughtful folks who need a louder megaphone