Comment posted on Recent craigslist update cracks down on spammers by Nicole Hatoun

Actually, Craigslist has been doing a really good job of making changes to try and stop spammers… The problem is that whenever a new change comes up, CL posters find a way around it, and these changes usually ADD even more unnecessary spam to CL.

When CL implemented phone verification… you won’t BELIEVE how many people have made $20,000 a month or more selling bulk PVA (phone-verified accounts).

Every new CL change makes it necessary for posters to post more often than necessary. Have you ever seen the ads on Backpage.com? Since Backpage does not have the same filters, the ads tend to be cleaner, to-the-point, and there aren’t dozens of repeat posts. On CL, in order to by-pass the filters – you’ll have creepy-looking “spammy” titles, all sorts of weird coding and junk words, paragraph upon paragraph of junk text in the ad body, titles that do not adequately describe what is being sold (they can’t adequately describe what is being sold, if they do then the ad will be ghosted), bizarre symbols added all over the place, and ads using image instead of text (in order to keep CL filters from pulling the ad down due to suspect words – even in legitimate ads).

IP geo-filtering sounds like a great idea in theory, however it is simply a new measure that will easily be bypassed, and similarly to PVAs, they will give birth to a new underground market where a few people will make a windfall of a profit.

IP geo-filtering will also be incredibly bad for CL business… Those with knowledge of how IPs work will agree: many IPs do NOT accurately determine your geographical location. Most ISPs use IP blocks that range from all over the country. Rarely does a single computer get a permanent IP address (your IP address changes constantly, depending on what type of internet connection you have). Eventually, there will be so many filters put up that the only people who will be ABLE to post on CL would be the SPAMMERS.

powered by SEO Super Comments