Craigslist Limiting HTML
Posted in Technology, Tools and Tidbits By MarkedSpot, Wednesday, April 16, 2008.Since I think just about everyone uses craigslist to market their listing I was wondering what everyone thought of Craigslist's proposal regarding html?
Basically what they are saying is:
"Unfortunately, much of the HTML in postings these days is used by spammers for harmful purposes, such as cloaking spam links, embedding false keywords, and overriding the flagging system."
Interestingly there are a number of comments on the forum aimed directly at the postlets ads. I think postlets is a great service but, not to fault postlets but, I have to agree many have abused the fact that postlets ads are aren't seen as duplicate content, resulting in many abusing the rules and overposting.
What are your thoughts?
Link to proposal: http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/html_in_craigslist_postings
Link to forum: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/forums/?forumID=4865
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Submitted by Gahlord Dewald | Thoughtfaucet on April 16, 2008 - 12:37pm.
There is a great opportunity to listen in that forum, if you can wade through the pathos. It would be useful to sort through it all and make a version that has only what people say about the kinds of ads they would like to see in Craigslist and why.
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Submitted by Gahlord Dewald | Thoughtfaucet on April 21, 2008 - 9:34am.
FWIW, I went through a few pages of the responses on Craigslist and chose some choice bits that mentioned Real Estate. I didn't choose the ones with excessive profanity so my link should be safe for work.
Craigslist HTML limitation comments.
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