Trashing The Competition on Craigslist Through Flagging

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Trashing The Competition on Craigslist Through Flagging

05-06-2008, 11:41 AM,

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Trashing The Competition on Craigslist Through Flagging

Quote: Like other small businesses worldwide using the free classified Web site, Kelley stumbled last year onto a little-known dark side of Craigslist.

Some critics say it's a situation where anything goes, including slanderous attacks and competitors ejecting each other's ads in a process called "flagging."

Using conventional software to circumvent Craigslist rules, some individuals have figured out how to quash competition by removing ads of their rivals, whether they're house-cleaning services or real estate sellers.

Craigslist employs an automatic tool that yanks offensive or false ads if enough different users flag them. The problem: Single users can cheat the system with software that makes the flagging appear to be from multiple users...

full article: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9129293?source=rss

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