jennifer_rojas

A reply from a craigslist user/casual observer/single mother of two/and career housecleaner. It's good that cl is trying to clean up their site. As around the end of Sept of 09, they have managed to do exactly that by putting in place better spam filters and making it difficult and complicated for users to post outside of their geographic location, thereby limiting the larger numbers of ads bei

moulicohen

Craigslist is a tool. It can be used for positive or negative or negative actions. This debate seems to be so much larger than the tool in question, or for that matter, even the idealism that created the tool. I look forward to hearing further comments

wej7

I want to briefly respond to HCCANDA The biggest problem I see from CL is NOT monitoring unfair flagging. But CL hurt the poor? Well, I'm writng this from a public library where I get one to two hours webtime per day. When CL sent confirmation to me it came on my ATT GoPhone that cost me 20.00 (and that included 10.00 of airtime). People poorer then me usually know somebody with a phone. The stuff about being Marxist is, in my opinion, way over drawn. They do dictate standards by, for instance, not allowing kiddie porn. They have driven much of the olden days of newspaper classified advertizing out of the marketplace. But I gotten three weeks of work, sold an electric guitar ...and an extention ladder...both for a fair price on CL in this last year where work and money have been hard to get. It didn't cost me a dime to use CL. Listen, I wish they could only run MY "work offered" ads...but that would be selfish. WEJ

wej7

I've put up ads on CL looking for work and had them knocked out within hours. This has happened to many others in my trade (Orange County, CA). Much of this happened last winter and caused quite a stir here and a lot of anger. Our problem was that Craigslist wasn't protecting the labor market by allowing easy flagging of innocent people. Things have returned to normal, perhaps because CL has caught up with some of its back-log of work in this regard WEJ

benevers

Craigslist has held so close to its original belief structure that it is forced to go to these lengths to protect its value. As an ocassional user I am sometimes frustrated by some of the controls placed on me but I am also aware that 1) the service is free to me, 2) I have agreed to their terms, 3) the service is of great value to me, 4) did I mention, its free and I agreed to the terms! I am in complete agreement with Craigslist in their prosecution of this suit. Any of us who are users must appreciate the value represented by Craigslist and support them here.