craigslist crackdown
Craigslist Turns to Police, Community to Fight ‘Spamvertising’:
It seems that craiglist is finally getting serious about people that are abusing the site’s service. It’s not drug dealers. It’s not prostitutes or sexual predators. It’s advertisers…
Craigslist is serious about cracking down on advertisers that are breaking the site’s rules: It has added new tools to allow community members to flag offending posts, and it has enlisted the aid of the police and ISP-tracking services.
Craigslist has been inundated with “professional marketers” trying to circumvent the classified ad site’s rules and market products and services to the community, ClickZ reports. The problem has become so rampant that coders are creating software that automatically creates listings, and others are writing books aimed at helping marketers sell on Craigslist.
Way to clean up your act craigslist. :roll:
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2 opinions for craigslist crackdown
Craiglist crackdown… at MegaSite Mania
Jan 11, 2007 at 2:28 am
[…] According to http://mycrimespace.com/2007/01/08/craigslist-crackdown/ craigslist is cracking down on marketers trying to use craigslist to advertise. Craigslist is serious about cracking down on advertisers that are breaking the site’s rules: It has added new tools to allow community members to flag offending posts, and it has enlisted the aid of the police and ISP-tracking services. […]
Anarchology
May 12, 2008 at 1:57 am
My website’s community has been starkly against annoying Nigerian scammers with the means of messing with them back for their bullshit. I hope this doesn’t effect people trying to kick those jerkoff’s in the balls.
On a topic of merchants advertising on Craigslist, I can’t see how violating a site’s user agreement could be some kind of offense the law enforcement would look into. It sounds like more of a scare tactic than reality.
However, if some site is offering illegal items/content, then that would be a different story.
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