Why the H do people flag postings for removal on CL?

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Why the H do people flag postings for removal on CL?

Once in a while you just have to vent. I scour ( As I know many of you also do) CL every day in hopes of grabbing up that one "LAST" crucial game for my basementcade. Lately, it seems as though many of the listings are getting "flagged for removal" I never know why. Have any of you flagged someones listing? and of coarse, WHY?
 
Well around here we have had some idiot post 4-6 times a day to sell his golden tee.
I am not driven enough to flag them all. But if I see 5 consecutive ads for the same game(almost every day), I flag 1 or 2 of them.
 
CL has become darn near useless anymore. I had ran an ad for a week (one listing) and when it expired I ran it again. It almost immediately got flagged so I ran it again. After the 5th time of being flagged I gave up. Honestly I think people are so soured over people re-listing their stuff week after week or even months after months they just start flagging to get rid of it .... to let the seller know they feel the item/s are over priced and they're tired of looking at it.

Otherwise competitors flag each other a lot also.

CL is crap IMHO.
 
Ditto to deadly. I have listed things on CL and ended up getting flagged. So then I would re-list and pretty much get flagged within minutes. It is a vicious circle because then you start listing it again, and it appears that you are top listing to some or you list in surrounding areas and then other people want to flag you for you listing it out of your area. It is totally ridiculous to me as I would like to see as many games on there as possible. But we do have some people that will list their game 3 times in a day or every day for a week, and that is bad as well.
We have a lot of people up here in Michigan looking and there are games that pop up, but if anyone routinely lists games (can be different games as well) they seem to get flagged pretty darn quick.
 
CL has become darn near useless anymore. I had ran an ad for a week (one listing) and when it expired I ran it again. It almost immediately got flagged so I ran it again. After the 5th time of being flagged I gave up. Honestly I think people are so soured over people re-listing their stuff week after week or even months after months they just start flagging to get rid of it .... to let the seller know they feel the item/s are over priced and they're tired of looking at it.

Otherwise competitors flag each other a lot also.

CL is crap IMHO.

I do dispise seeing the same listing over and over and over and over....

competitor thing is what I thought it might be
 
I would never flag someone just because they were selling a game. If someone lists a game 50+ times in a 7 day period, I am going to hit 1 or 2 of them. :)
 
Ditto to deadly. I have listed things on CL and ended up getting flagged. So then I would re-list and pretty much get flagged within minutes. It is a vicious circle because then you start listing it again, and it appears that you are top listing to some or you list in surrounding areas and then other people want to flag you for you listing it out of your area. It is totally ridiculous to me as I would like to see as many games on there as possible. But we do have some people that will list their game 3 times in a day or every day for a week, and that is bad as well.
We have a lot of people up here in Michigan looking and there are games that pop up, but if anyone routinely lists games (can be different games as well) they seem to get flagged pretty darn quick.

Wiz, you were the one I was thinking about, when I wrote this. I bought your Arkanoid a bit back. I distinctly remember trying to look up your listing when I got home...Boom, it was flagged on a couple of occasions. It is a fun world we live in.
 
some people are just dicks. Some over post and probably deserve and still some people get the sellers contact info or send an email then flag a seller in hopes of eliminating the chances anyone else will get to it before them.
 
Too bad Craigslist stopped Craiglook, it was such an improvement but violated the TOS.

What makes no sense is how blatant fraud is allowed, but if you mistakenly list a car part for sale in "automotive" instead of "automotive parts" it's f-ing flagged in moments.

Do you know what Craigslist corporate lovingly calls their interface? Shitty®

At least they got one thing right.
 
some people get the sellers contact info or send an email then flag a seller in hopes of eliminating the chances anyone else will get to it before them.

is that really possible? i ask cause i've always thought you could only flag once, and no matter how many times you refreshed and flagged, it only counted for one time. i thought other people had to flag as well.
 
is that really possible? i ask cause i've always thought you could only flag once, and no matter how many times you refreshed and flagged, it only counted for one time. i thought other people had to flag as well.

I've had people tell me they've done it. Not sure of the details. maybe they have multiple computers/IP addresses and flag from all of them. Not sure how many people it takes to have an ad pulled but I've been told it's been done and it worked.
 
I have flagged. Usually it's when they post constantly. I get sick of seeing the same things 3 times on the first page. If you don't sell it, at least delete the old ad before reposting. If you don't sell in a few months, maybe it's either too high or junk, or your target audience just doesn't go on craigslist.

One thing I want to flag but have resisted doing so is what I consider the "comercial" game buyers. It pisses me off really bad when people keep posting about wanting to buy any arcade games and they pay top price etc... I could post my own ad like this, but it just rubs me the wrong way to do so. Let people post what they have for sale so everyone can get a chance, or at least see what games are selling in their area.

I imagine most of the flagging is competitors. A quick Google shows it takes different IPs to flag something, but it said it didn't know the exact formula.

Since Craigslook is gone Craigslist basically sucks anyway. Yeah there are alternatives to search, but they just suck in one way or another.

Craigslist would be great if you lived in large cities or in California. Here in rural Iowa looking at your local area really does no good. You have to look within 100 mile radius to find anything.
 
The only ones I flag are the obvious SPAM ones from non-locals. ArcadeBoneyard is one that gets flagged right off. Sometimes I see multi-cade sellers using pics off the internet as their "game" and talk about delivery, but they are actually from out of town (sometimes out of state) and are really a business trying to advertise as a private seller.

I'd expect others to do the same if my boss tried to sell on CL as a private seller - but he doesn't....
 
Would everyone take just a second of their time right now to flag an Arcade fire Ticket ad? Please.

Dear god. How many postings have you seen for those bastages.

What kind of blasphemors are they anyway?

Who names a band Arcade Fire?... why not just name them The Joy Snuffers, or baby killers, or maybe Gargamel's smurf smashers.

I hate those CL Ads.
 
Just filter them out.

Here's the filter I use:

arcade -ipod -dreamcast -genesis -"screen machines" -usb -park -playstation -"memory card" -wii -wireless -iphone -xbox360 -360 -remodeling -xbox -ps2 -ps3 -psp -basketball -synthesizer -"smart cycle"-"arcade fire" -"nintendo ds" -"arcade ufo"

You may want to remove the "basketball" filter if you want stuff like NBA JAM or Atari Basketball, but I don't care about those games. I get tired of those basketball shooting games that hang on the wall being called "arcade".

You may also need to add area specific terms. For example, I have "arcade ufo" because there is an arcade here with that name near the college campus, and I get tired of results about "meet near Arcade UFO". There is also a place with "park" in the name, so I filter that, too.

I still get the occasional POS, but it's very rare.

Once you've done a filtered search, save it as a bookmark and it'll do the filtered search every time you click it....
 
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