Jobs section is full of devs advertising themselves, can we do something about this

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ok i need to rant a bit. every fucking day i open the freelance feed and like half of the new "jobs" arent jobs at all, its some dev writing "i can build you an EA" or "professional MQL5 developer available" or "ready to use SMC bot, backtest included". like 3 4 a day in the feed i watch, probably way more if you count other languages. the chinese section is the worst, most of that is straight up ads with wechat or qq in the text, some selling cracked copies of commercial stuff, and rules say no contacts before the agreement right?? nobody cares apparently.
and the best part, you write a proper application, ask questions, spend time on it, and there is no customer. never was. just another dev talking to himself, and the post sits there with "5 applications" from other idiots like me.
it also makes it harder for real customers to even be seen, their normal jobs get buried under this garbage. i wrote to service desk about it but honestly i dont expect much.
so what can be done?? a report button on each job would be a start, and some basic check for posts that describe a seller instead of a task. mods, anyone, are you seeing this too or just me?
Mykyta Samoiliuk:
[A] report button on each job would be a start...

complain

Personally, I would do without the S and F bombs in your OP. I understand that you're frustrated which those express but if everybody does that, this Forum will descend into the quagmire of almost every other nonconstructive forum.

Ryan L Johnson #:

Personally, I would do without the S and F bombs in your OP. I understand that you're frustrated which those express but if everybody does that, this Forum will descend into the quagmire of almost every other nonconstructive forum.

ok, noted, i get your point about the language and i dont want this to turn into a swearing contest. i will leave the post as it is, but i will keep it calmer from here. about the complain button, yes it exists and i do use it, but as far as i can see most of these ad posts stay online and there is no feedback on what happened with the complaint, so you dont know if anyone even looked at it. with several of them every day, reporting each one by hand is a lot of work for something that should be filtered once. a clear reason in the complain form like advertisement or not a real job would help, and maybe a short note back when it was handled. 
thanks for the reply
Mykyta Samoiliuk:
ok i need to rant a bit. every fucking day i open the freelance feed and like half of the new "jobs" arent jobs at all, its some dev writing "i can build you an EA" or "professional MQL5 developer available" or "ready to use SMC bot, backtest included". like 3 4 a day in the feed i watch, probably way more if you count other languages. the chinese section is the worst, most of that is straight up ads with wechat or qq in the text, some selling cracked copies of commercial stuff, and rules say no contacts before the agreement right?? nobody cares apparently.
and the best part, you write a proper application, ask questions, spend time on it, and there is no customer. never was. just another dev talking to himself, and the post sits there with "5 applications" from other idiots like me.
it also makes it harder for real customers to even be seen, their normal jobs get buried under this garbage. i wrote to service desk about it but honestly i dont expect much.
so what can be done?? a report button on each job would be a start, and some basic check for posts that describe a seller instead of a task. mods, anyone, are you seeing this too or just me?

Unfortunately, there is no problem with searching for customers in MQL5 Freelance, it is even implicitly allowed. Only using the platform and carrying out works and payments outside of it is forbidden. 

See Freelance Rules, Fulfilling Orders outside of the Freelance service.

Minh Tue Le #:

Unfortunately, there is no problem with searching for customers in MQL5 Freelance, it is even implicitly allowed.

A Freelancer searching for a job that was posted by a potential customer is one thing.

A Freelancer spoof/spam posting a fake job as a fake customer for the purpose of advertising is quite another thing:

The sitewide mql5.com Rules state:
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  2. Negative discussions of any banking, brokerage and other financial institutions are not allowed.
  3. Any discussions about personal relations between the community members are not tolerated.
  4. Coarse language, advertising messages, spamming and flooding are forbidden [emphasis added].
  5. Repeated violation of the Rules, ignoring moderator's remarks and open disrespect for the website Administration will lead to an account termination.
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