Comments on: Craigslist Spam Buttons updated – version 1.3

By: Steevo

Steevo — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:35:03 +0000

By the way,

"Update 10/29/2008 – this is now working great! And it keeps the [spam] links marked as visited, even after reloading the page, so you can see which posts you’ve already marked."

That part is not working for me. If I reload the page all the spam links turn back to blue.

By: Steevo

Steevo — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:23:25 +0000

Synthia, why do you say it doesn't work?
What does it do or not do?

AFAICT it's still working, both I and Steve have verified that.

Ryan, Steve says it's possible a zero pixel Iframe might not work, or they may have done something to disable it.

I changed the iframe to 640×200 and visible and it is clearly working in testing. As to when it was zero size, it's hard to tell.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:58:36 +0000

Craigslist often changes how their flagging system works. If the script has stopped working they may have made some changes again. I'll try to take a look at it in the next few weeks and get it updated.

By: synthia herrera

synthia herrera — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:47:50 +0000

is there a new version?

By: synthia herrera

synthia herrera — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:47:23 +0000

is this still working it worked at first and dosent anymore? what am i doing wrong?

By: nomad

nomad — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:51:29 +0000

1.3.9 version when you click on a post and use the back button to return to list it automatically marks that post as spam.

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By: Steevo

Steevo — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:33:45 +0000

Steve,
As I said before, I suspected this flagging thing wasn't really working in every case.
Now I notice some more evidence that this is the case.

I have a spammer who posts hundreds of messages a day, and I sometimes go through and flag all his posts.

Sometimes, I got back to flag again, and the script says "Post already flagged". I know if there were posts done by this guy on that day I would have flagged them all, but the "Post already flagged" indication seems to occur in about half or less of the posts. Since all these posts existed as of that date and my search term is the same, I am sure I had flagged them all before.

But some were apparently not successfully flagged by the script.
This is the guy with remote loading graphics from photobucket, which I have been waiting until the flagging completes before I go on to the next one.

So I think this scrips only flaggs successfully about half the time.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:49:31 +0000

The red link with the line is the way it works, whether you flag it or just visit the post. I think I discussed this behavior above.

By: Steevo

Steevo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:38:02 +0000

Hm. I did close the browser and reopen it, and I tried both script versions.
However it does seem to work now.

I have no explanation.

One thing I did notice today is if I visit a post, the spam link does turn red with a line through it. It's still a link but visiting it does cause that behavior, even though I didn't flag it. This is with the script from userscripts, not the one I modified.

I still have no explanation.

Heh. Weirder and weirder….