Let's close [jobs] questions!

Question

Stack Overflow discontinued Stack Overflow Jobs and Developer Story on March 31, 2022.

Since most of the posts with jobs tag are not relevant today because of the discontinuation, let's close the posts. Feel free to share your opinion about closing these posts.

Also, I request the moderators or staff to remove the status-deferred and if needed, replace them with appropriate status tag.

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I agree with Bhargav's comment. I do not think closing 2.18k posts is appropriate. Perhaps, we can close these posts.

Answer 1

No, let's not go actively find and close and/or edit these posts.

There is no harm done when leaving them open. They will get closed organically, if at all.

Also bumping posts to remove tags is a concern as it floods the front page and the active tab. Moderators and Community Managers have better things to do.

Just for reference: The sunsetting of Documentation only had most of its questions closed a year later. We have time.

If anything, the tag wiki could be updated with moderation guidance, once we settled on one.

Answer 2

Jobs/Careers was a mature product which had a fair amount of impact, positive or negative on the way the network has turned out. I wouldn't treat this the same as Documentation, which was a Beta and an attempt to extend the Q&A format in other ways.

Even as a defunct product, there may be value in keeping documentation of it around for the future - as a matter of being a record of the history of the network and its various components.

While it's tempting to focus on moving things to the outpile of meta, I'd argue that the effort spent might be better spent elsewhere.

Someone misattributed once "Thou Shalt not Kill, yet not need to strive officiously to keep alive". If one comes across such a post organically - voting to close or getting it retagged is fine. It's probably not a good use of time (and risks flooding the front page) to concertedly close or 'fix' these.