About.com Guide for Perl [was Fwd: RE: Guide Application for [Perl]]

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

Can anyone here volunteer to write about Perl for http://perl.about.com/ ?
It's been suffering from a lot of neglect, and my application for a writer
there was rejected (see below).

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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Subject: RE: Guide Application for [Perl]
Date: Tuesday 24 May 2011, 18:01:03
From: jm...@about.com
To: shl...@shlomifish.org, shl...@gmail.com

Shlomi,

While we thank you for taking the time to apply to be an About.com Guide, we
have decided not to accept your application for entry into Prep. A few common
reasons why your application was not accepted include:

* We are looking for someone with more professional writing experience.
* We are looking for someone with more writing experience in the topic.
* We are looking for someone with different qualifications.
* The writing in the writing sample was not up to our standards or had
typographical errors.

If you feel that you did not represent yourself to your best advantage in your
application and you wish to apply again, you are more than welcome to do so at
http://beaguide.about.com. In addition, you may also be interested in
applying to be a writer for ConsumerSearch, a member of the About, Inc. group
of companies looking for writers to join their teams. If so, we encourage you
to apply via the following link:

* Consumer Search: http://www.consumersearch.com/www/jobs.html.

Thanks again for your application,

About.com Recruitment and Training Team

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[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

On Tuesday 24 May 2011 22:57:27 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone here volunteer to write about Perl for http://perl.about.com/ ?
> It's been suffering from a lot of neglect, and my application for a writer
> there was rejected (see below).
>

Someone asked me (in private - :-( ) what my writing sample looked like, and
since this was a form submission and it was a long time ago, I don't recall
exactly, but I think they were these:

* http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Perl/Newbies/

* http://perl-begin.org/

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Shlomi Fish

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[Shlomi Fish]

Hello Joel,

sorry for the late response.

On Tue, 31 May 2011 11:15:08 -0500
Joel Limardo <joel.l...@forwardphase.com> wrote:

> I was the one who asked for your writing sample. I wanted to see if there
> was something fairly obvious in your writing that would cause a rejection.
> After looking at the links you provided, I'm sad to say that I agree with
> About.com.
>

Well, in my letter I asked if anyone would be willing to volunteer for
maintaining the Perl section of About.com, due to the fact that my
application was rejected. The fact that my application was rejected was a
given and I assumed there was little or nothing I could do about it. Telling me
why my writing is lacking, is besides the point of finding someone to maintain
the Perl section on About.com, and I didn't request that input.

Thanks for passing your commentary on my writing, but it's not going to help
with the issue I raised.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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