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Old 03-28-2008
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Trying to beat the craigslist spammers!!!

Maybe it's just me but I am a habitual searcher on Craigslist for various items that interest me, and it drives me nuts to have to weed through all the solid BS on there from the friggin SPAMMERS!! A good example of this is some buttslammer in SF is selling his "Blue flame chopper" which is actually a Vulcan with taller bars, some crappy flames and a different seat. So this jerk who thinks he's got a custom chopper(WTF?) decides to post his ad on CL and here is the list of words below his ad:

Motorcycle, chopper, Kawasaki, bike, Honda, BMW, Suzuki, goldwing, CBR, FZR, Yamaha, Harley, Harley Davidson, hog, HD, fat boy, shovel head, rigid, rigid frame, frame, belt drive, chain drive, road king, dyna, electric glide, sportster, GSRX, FXD, Triumph, R1150, FXR, FXRS, softail, road glide, road king, V-rod, FLHT, Heritage, Virago, Buell

So here it is, I come on in each day and run a quick search for HARLEY and I have to look at this friggin idiots ad, along with all of the others who do the same crap. I tried going on the CL forum and posting a suggestion that they SPELL IT OUT IN WORDS in the terms of service that you cant use misleading keywords in the ads and the powers that be stated that it already says it somewhere in there, but obviously no one reads that crap and I certainly can't find it.

If anyone else in here searches CL and has the same irritating results, do you bother flagging these jerks? This idiot's ad has been up and running for 5 days solid, so I'm starting to think I am the only one who gets tired of this. By the looks of the list, and some of them are 3 times as long, there are a lot of people who get this ad when they are searching for something completely unrelated to a homo-tized vulcan....

If you want to see the ad just search for any of the above words

My favorite is searching for "HONDA SUZUKI HARLEY" and it's like 99% guaranteed that the resulting ads are complete SPAM.
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Re: Trying to beat the craigslist spammers!!!

Craigs list is way over moderated
they ban the real adds and let spam crap in
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oh BTW I sold both my Vulkans
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Re: Trying to beat the craigslist spammers!!!

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Craigs list is way over moderated
they ban the real adds and let spam crap in
Crusher, I'm totally with you on this one!! I certainly don't have anything against Vulcans, but it would piss me off to have to see this ad if I was searching for a buell, triumph, bmw, or whatever. And like you say, they immediately flag the ads which are not intentionaly causing a problem or being deceitful. I just don't understand why more people dont get fired up about people doing this? I flag them but it sure doesnt do any good, and I see the same people doing it over and over. This one guy I am harping on has had this bike on there AT LEAST 6 months, probably closer to a year, with the same crappy keywords. I dont get it.
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in Texas they would only let me run an add once a week or 10 days
or they would just pull the add
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