Tonight I published an update to my Craigslist Spam Buttons greasemonkey script. (If you don’t know what this is about, see my earlier post). I’ve had some feedback on the script, and I was able to incorporate those requests. Now the [spam] buttons are displayed at the front of item link. And when you click on the link, a request is made in the background to mark the item as spam. You no longer have to jump to the flag-spam page, then click the continue browsing button to get back to where you were. Instead the [spam] button changes to a red check mark to indicate that it has been marked.
This is more difficult than you would think, you can’t just do a simple AJAX request because your browser will only make requests to the same site you are on. In this case you are browsing on yourcity.craigslist.org, but the flag-spam page is on flag.craigslist.org.
The greasemonkey extension does provide a built in method to make http calls to external sites, but that would break my Opera compatibility. So instead I load the flag-spam page as the src of a JavaScript-created image object.
It was fun to figure out, I really enjoy programming in JavaScript.
You can get the script from userscripts.org. Here is a screen shot:
Rob says:
Do you know how a single person can flag ads repeatedly? CL say’s it’s difficult but I think it must be fairly simple.
31 December 2007, 10:01 amaj says:
Please help. All I get is the html script. what do i do?
13 January 2008, 4:47 pmaj says:
i sue this to flag: http://www.craigsflagger.com/
13 January 2008, 4:48 pmaj says:
I use n sue sorry about that: http://www.craigsflagger.com/
13 January 2008, 4:49 pmaj says:
Rob, I want to figure that out too. How does one single person so quickly flag so many. Anyone?
14 January 2008, 12:17 amnoname says:
you don’t need to flag more than once. other people are flagging while you flag. the spams go down fast.
10 February 2008, 3:56 pmnoname says:
uber fantastic. will try. i was conceptualizing a proxo filter (or pair), but decided i should google for prior art. here that is.
suggest: flag based on search (this tool) only when you’re sure the post is spam. if you search precisely for certain bulkspam, every link on the results will be obviously spam.
10 February 2008, 4:17 pmthe “website” link above is a good test. that spammer posts about 30 per day, everyday.
flag strategy is to flag newer ads, and let the old ads expire. the old spam gets pushed back (by legitimate ads) and also provide evidence of spamming pattern.
noname says:
sometimes breaks. i think when craigs includes message: “The following common or short search terms were skipped:”
your link doesn’t show because your link placement still depends on html structure?
script works for similar search, removed common word “our”:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/search/sks?query=%22Check+out%22+Refrences+Pics
otherwise, in opera, your link opens craigs “thanks” page.
10 February 2008, 5:46 pmso easiest “manual batch” usage is to middle click your [spam] links (each “thanks” page opens in background), then middle click those background tabs to close.
Dave says:
This is a great script. There is a community of craigslist flaggers whose work would be made much more efficient by this. I’m new to that community, so I don’t know whether some of them already use it (they’re a pretty closed-mouth bunch). So I posted a link to your page on their forum.
One thought, there are also Miscategorized and Prohibited flags which need to be used often in flagging ads that are in violation of the craigslist terms of use. Could your script be modified to access those flags too? You could use 3 smaller links in sequence like [s] [m] [p] in front of the ad link, so you wouldn’t blow out the links page layout.
Thank you.
17 February 2008, 11:21 pmDave says:
BTW, when working a list of search results to target a spammer, you can tell by the color of the link whether you’ve already visited the ad to flag it, even if you reload the search page. However, with this script the red check mark disappears when you redo the search, so unless you write it down, you can’t tell where to pick up your work. Is it possible for the script to show the link as visited, or retain the red check mark?
Thanks.
17 February 2008, 11:33 pmsomeone says:
The flagging site above: http://www.craigsflagger.com/
doesn’t work–unfortunately.
19 February 2008, 2:57 amGeorge says:
Works great, thanks!
16 April 2008, 2:31 pmArt says:
does not work for me
24 April 2008, 10:47 pmArt says:
can’t get it to remove any post.
24 April 2008, 10:59 pmRyan Stille says:
Hi Art. I think you are misunderstanding how Craigslist flagging works. Flagging a message will not immediately cause it to be removed. Craigslist has some kind of algorithm, that may be a just a count of flags, or so many flags in a certain time period, etc. Once their magic algorithm is satisfied, the post is removed.
If a single flag caused a posting to be removed – there wouldn’t be any posts!
25 April 2008, 7:28 amRyan Stille says:
@Dave – yes I’d like to make it remember which posts you’ve flagged, but thats a big step up in terms of programming complexity. I may get to it someday…
25 April 2008, 7:30 amDave says:
Ryan, thanks for the response. There’s actually a fairly easy workaround to remembering which posts you’ve flagged. When you flag the most recent spam on a particular list, click its link to open the ad and the browser will remember it as visited.
A more productive use of your programming time IMO would be the ability to flag miscategorized and prohibited ads in addition to spam.
28 April 2008, 7:29 amno-name says:
All flag links do the same thing, no need to add miscategorized and prohibited.
18 May 2008, 7:34 pmDan says:
It’s a great idea … although it appears the script isn’t working. I tried flagging using the script, the ad didn’t go down when refreshed, but when flagged using the link on the ad’s page, it worked and the ad registered as flagged. I don’t think it was a fluke due to someone else flagging because this is on the pennstate.craigslist site which doesn’t have many people flagging, and I retried the flagging within 3 seconds. There are spams that have gone a week or more without being flagged down on this site, so don’t tell me ‘it’s just been flagged by someone else’.
I don’t think the spam script is flagging ads properly… try it on one of the smaller sites and see. Flag the ad using the script, refresh the ad’s page. Flag the ad using the links on the ad page, refresh. If it says ‘this ad has been flagged’ the second time but not the first, unless someone else flagged in the 5 seconds it took you to reflag, the script doesn’t work and we’re all wasting our time flagging with it :/
But thanks for the great idea! I hope it can be updated to actually work.
29 May 2008, 5:50 amRyan Stille says:
Dan, I’m not sure why you think its not working. If you right click on my [spam] link, copy the URL, then manually paste it in to your URL bar, you’ll see that you are presented with a “thank you for flagging” page. Thats the URL your browser is requesting when you click on the [spam] link.
And if craigslist does set any kind of cookie when flagging (which I can find no evidence of), it would get set just fine by the [spam] link, its just a regular http request.
You say when you clicked on the spam link on the actual listing page “it worked and the ad registered as flagged”. But if you hit refresh in your browser you will see that all goes away and you have the spam/miscategorized/etc links shown again. So if you are expecting to see the “thanks for flagging” message there instead of the links after clicking the my [spam] on the listing page, thats not how it works.
29 May 2008, 7:52 amPaul says:
The Craig’s List system has several variables:
- it tracks a flag request per IP and URL – hence, making the attempt to re-flag an already flagged post useless. Once the request has already been made for a specific ad per the URL and your IP where the flag request came from, you’re wasting your time trying to reflag it – multiple attempts are simply discarded.
- it has a queue depth that Craig’s List itself assigns based on activity and feedback per category in any given city. If more people send feedback saying there’s a massive problem then typically they’ll lower the queue depth, also known as the flagging threshold. When it’s lowered, it requires a smaller amount of total flags (they’re all unique, as I explained above) to have an ad removed.
- flagged ads, ones that exceed the flagging threshold for a given category/city, don’t disappear automagically as most people SHOULD UNDERSTAND by now. So that means when you load up Firefox with Ryan’s wonderful script and you click that (spam) link the script creates, it won’t do you any good to reload the page once, twice, or fifteen times – the ad will not disappear instantly. It takes time, and that time is where all the other flags come into play because they are all needed to exceed the flagging threshold that actually causes an ad to be flagged down. But even when that happens, it takes Craig’s Lists servers time to actually remove the ad, could be 1 minute, could be 30 but sooner or later it will disappear AS LONG AS the flagging threshold was exceeded.
- Ryan’s script does exactly – EXACTLY – what happens when you formally load an ad and then click the Spam/Overpost link on the Craig’s List ad page. Same exact thing happens: a flag request is sent to Craig’s Lists servers and your IP is matched to the URL and bound together in the queue waiting for more until the flags in the queue exceeds the flag threshold. When that happens, bam… flagged down.
These days I’d have to say the Las Vegas Computer category is the absolute worst on any Craig’s List site anywhere I’ve been looking. We have some real no-life low-life scumbucket using some type of software to automagically just post spam ads for pirated Adobe/Microsoft software and other crap 24/7 these days. I just went through an entire page of 100 ads by hitting the (spam) link that Ryan’s script provides – 10 minutes later about 70 of them were gone, quickly replaced by a few more but different ones based on time of posting.
His script works, it’s just that most people don’t comprehend how the flagging system works. Load the script, when you find a spam ad, click (spam) and forget about it. You can even watch your cable or DSL modem or network card activity monitor and see a data burst from your machine over the connection when you click that link as the flag request is sent out.
And I thank Ryan for the script as I’m a geek and I find a lot of great deals on Craig’s List so I make it a point to flag this idiot spammer constantly when I see his spam posted. This script just makes it that much easier, although what I really want is an automagic method, seriously. Something that I can input the repetitive terms the spammer uses and it just autoflags the crap down for me/us.
It’s pretty bad in the Vegas Computer category – in a normal 24 hour period this idiot has been known to post 6000 or more ads, all done automagically.
CL could “fix” this quick by changing the method for CAPTCHA, but they won’t do it for some reason. Guess they prefer the dumbed down method of “authentication” to post an ad even when it’s costing them massive bandwidth for no good reason with each spam posting we find.
2 June 2008, 3:38 pmDan says:
Tried to post this comment before, dunno why it didn’t post. First of all, great script. Thanks for making it.
It still doesn’t appear to work for me, though.
The Pennstate.craigslist.org list is low-traffic. Sometimes spam job ads stay up for more than a week. If I take one of those ads which has probably already been flagged once or twice, hit ’spam’ next to the title, then click on the ad, it loads normally. I reload to make sure it’s not cached, it loads normally. Then I click the ‘real’ spam/overpost flag link, get the thankyou, reload, and the ad is marked ‘flagged for deletion.’
Now unless someone else decided to flag again, just in the 5 seconds it took for me to get into the ad and hit the real ‘flag’ link, when the ad’s been up for weeks already, the script’s not working
. And yes, it’s happened a lot… they must have some change to the flag process that doesn’t let the script work (if they did it to actually disable the script, that’s absolute idiocy, because CL is overrun with spam!)
Anyway, thanks for the help, and the script. I hope it notifies me via email when a followup is posted this time!
12 June 2008, 4:53 amRyan Stille says:
You are right Dan, I was able to replicate the behavior you described. CL must be doing something… possibly checking the referring URL on the flag requests. It didn’t seem to work when I just copied the flag link and pasted it into my browser. I got the thanks for flagging page, but the ad didn’t go down. When I actually clicked on the flag link, I got the same page but when I went back and refreshed the ad it was down. The only difference I can think of between those two methods is that the referring URL will only be sent when I click the link.
I’ll have to give some thought to that, it looks like there is a way to make a request and set the referring URL, but its going to break Opera compatibility.
12 June 2008, 2:07 pmDan says:
Thanks for the reply, Ryan! Appreciate the help on the script. CL needs all the help it can get to stem the neverending tide of spam. I know they’re probably trying to avoid the spammers’ marking everyone else’s ads as spam except their own (hey, when you’re pure evil, you’ll stop at nothing to make sure you win and everyone else loses)… but I think it’s outweighed by letting users mark spam more easily.
Thanks for making it easier to fight spammers… though ‘as long as there is evil in the hearts of men,’ I’m sure they’ll be around
. At least we make it more difficult for them to do their spamming.
13 June 2008, 1:29 amisrael says:
What is the most current auto flagger for craigslist and how do you use it?
13 June 2008, 10:15 amNathan says:
This doesn’t seem to be working. I loaded the scrip I open CL I hit the SPAM button and the listing hasn’t gone down over an hour. I copy the link to the browser and get the thanks for flagging page but again the listing never goes down. Any ideas? The pet section in Boise is ridiculous with people posting things that should not be there. Am i missing something do i need to clear cache and keep hitting spam button? Please let me know.
This doesn’t work either http://www.craigsflagger.com/
24 June 2008, 11:34 amsayonarra says:
need help understanding a flagged post mine. the post was over 2 days (48 hours old) when it was flagged. 1st time i got flagged, felt weird! anyway, as it had been over 2 days old, i figured id try repost ad as technically 48 hours had past since it was originally posted. i eliminated wording that might caused flag. so i go ahead enter the text box to post and i get message saying i over limited my posting limits. ok. then i hit back button browser and dialog asked me if i wanted post data redone. i say yes entered new captua word , wording to enter form and repost was successful that time! id like understand why doing post data cleared over limit on my posts??!!
4 July 2008, 10:29 pmi have also noted cl categories and posting limits goo by city/region. if you post say san francisco/nob hill, then you can post a different ad say in sanfrancisco height, it seems definer category is default what definition subclass of region. any enlightenment most welcome sayonarra
Sean says:
How to avoid being flagged on craigslist. Tired of getting flagged? Tired of all the worthless bored losers in the world who have appointed themselves the censors of craigslist and choose to flag your post over and over again until it disappears? Well I think I have figured out how the algorithm works!! I believe it works on the times your ad is accessed total versus the times it is accessed and flagged. So in order to keep your ad from getting flagged just wait until it posts then click on it, then click the back arrow on your browser and click on it again. Do this as many times as you feel is necessary. I usually do it about 100-200 times. This takes a lot of time but if you want to keep your ad posted it is worth it!! Eventually all of these bored losers with nothing better to do give up and find somebody else’s ad to pick on.
And for all you flagging losers with nothing better to do, I know how you can flag the same ad over and over again without even exiting Craigslist!! But guess what, I am not going to tell you!!
If You Flag You Should Get A Life!!
5 July 2008, 7:28 pmsayonarra says:
think craig is a demon from another universe hell bent causing misery for us mere mortals!! a filter would do same thing w/o subjective hate flaggers employ
11 July 2008, 4:06 pmsayonarra says:
that anti flagging thing doesnt work
11 July 2008, 7:55 pmbill says:
this isnt working for me either. any new scripts?
14 July 2008, 7:21 pmRyan Stille says:
Bill, I have been working on an updated script. I have not been very successful yet, but I think it is possible to get this working again.
14 July 2008, 9:48 pmDan says:
Thanks for the update, Ryan! A lot of Craigslisters use this script, I think, and it’d be great for it to be easier to flag obvious spam (like anything with five random letters after it).
-aNg8x [type the following into your address bar: s p a m s i t e . c o m and make $5000 a day from your toilet seat! Ask me how!]
14 July 2008, 11:30 pmsayonarra says:
you people are creating flagging wars
15 July 2008, 5:50 pmpeople flag remove others regardless wethey r guilt flagging or now
your like arms dealers you sell or give your killer weapons to idiots who flag people not because they spam
but because they are gay ort lesbian or straight or jewish or white
u arm nazi’s who kill people income way life
shame on you
craigslist is fascism at its best
go get life!!
Phil says:
Here something that’s effective for the mega spammers.
http://www.jazzstudies.us:81/antispam.aspx
It was written specifically for spam i.e. 10 or more posts by single poster for a single service or item and lately craigslist has been targeted by posting software that’s making 30 to even 90 of the same type of ad possible. The pages takes a CL search link and creates a list of flag links and includes a flag all link that only works well with Firefox.
17 July 2008, 9:57 amBP says:
Thanks for writing this script you dumb ****.
18 July 2008, 3:36 amDan says:
Looks like we have some angry spammers, or some people who don’t understand what flagging is or why it’s helpful.
Flagging helps because it gets rid of crap posts, truthfully. Posts that don’t have the information they’re supposed to, or are in the wrong place, or are trying to auction things off, or are linking to Ebay or something. If you have a problem with flagging, go ask the people in the flagging forum why they think someone flagged your ad, and fix it. Otherwise, you’re just bitching to people who don’t give a rat’s ass.
And the fact that you come here to bitch about it shows that you have no idea what flagging is supposed to do or who actually flags posts. Your fellow citizens flag your posts because they don’t like them, period.
This script is one of the only useful tools people have to keep spam from overrunning craigslist, which is probably going to be covered in it anyway.
18 July 2008, 3:47 amDave says:
Angry boys: Abide by craigslist’s terms of use and you will not get flagged. Simple as that. Spam violates the terms of use and makes craigslist useless for both legitimate advertisers and buyers.
23 July 2008, 10:00 amcasey says:
could you please tell me how to flag?
24 July 2008, 8:22 amJoe says:
Hello,
I cant seem to get the flagging to work. Have tried craigsflagger. com, tried using CL flagging multiple times after logging on and off the internet to give different connection, but STILL no luck getting this SPAMMER’s EXCESSIVE Postings down.
Will someone PLEASE tell me a SUCCESSFUL way to Flag these IDIOTS off CL???
Thanks!
1 August 2008, 11:28 amRon says:
I suggest the spammers be hanged in public
1 August 2008, 9:41 pmI am sure the spam will stop
JIMMYboy says:
READ THIS>>>>READ THIS>>>
For all of you who are “trying to flag” and for those of you who are t”rying to stop flagging”.
Here is the truth that will give all you who like pssing in the wind…or who likes throwing endless pnches at the wind, peave of mind.
FOR YOU PATRIOT FLAGGERS: there are programs out there that will flag any item…just insert a link…get a proxy list…and WAMM BAMM…its OUT..Flagged…GONE in 60 secs.
FOR YOU SPAMMERS: there are programs that will rotate and automatically REPOST your ads…REGARDLESS if it is still active or if it has been flagged…IT can be done even at 10 min intervals.
POINT OF THE MATTER: He that gets more money out of an act…can afford to have made or just buy items that will keep generating money to justify his acts.
So who is willing to put forth more money??? Flagger Vigilants out to “right a Wrong”??? Or SPAMMERS who make tons of $$$$..???
ANSWER: SPAMMERS….Cuz they make more money by posting…and can afford guaranteeing that their posts on craingslist stay posted…and can afford to have their poorer…less informed competition flagged on a guaranteed rotating basis.
SO PISS IN THE WIND…if it brings you temp happiness…And I mean temp…because it will just get reposted in a matter of minutes.
FAIR.??? …NO…. IS LIFE.??? NOPE….AM I A SPAMMER>???? NO…And I dont like pissing in the wind.
I hope this informs people…
Just let the jerks continue being jerks…dont waste your time flagging if it takes too much of your time and if it donest bring you money… JIMMYboy
9 August 2008, 4:16 pmAaron says:
In regards to flagging, I understand its usefulness but what do you do if say for instance the post you put in “services” which follows the TOU and the competition flags off all your posts while simultaneously spamming there own?
I have had craiglist staff tell me that they saw nothing wrong with my ads and I know better to not re post more than every 48 hours.
At this pointing however my posts never even make it onto the site and all staff can recommend is to “ask for help in the flagging forum”
the flagging forum only has a couple of responses which are “quit your whining” “you must be doing something wrong that you not telling us” or “no single person can flag off a post” any inquiry’s after that only cause the flagging forum to imagine or create reason the posts were flagged off.
If anyone can offer some insight or ways to be able to post again I would greatly appreciate it.
20 August 2008, 1:58 pmDan says:
I think they should get rid of anonyous flagging; there are ways to get around the 1 flag per IP rule – proxies, for example…
People should have an account if they want to flag posts, or even MAKE posts. That would cut down on the crap and spam, and improve reputation management, which is one BIG advantage Ebay has over Craigslist. You can see what people say about each other’s trustworthiness. And there should be some kind of way to keep people from having more than one account. Of course, this would go against Craigslist’s idea of not being as Corporate or Big Brotherly as Ebay… but the way CL is getting overrun by spam, it might have to become more secure.
20 August 2008, 11:01 pmdarrell says:
To get rid of spam on craigslist, we need to make a small networking app that we all download to our respective computers that will act as a peer to peer sort of thing and when triggered will cause everybody’s computer to send the meesage to craigslist to remove the spam in question.
30 September 2008, 12:44 pmYeah, I know it sounds like it is possible, but I don’t know how to do it.
Marie says:
“If You Flag You Should Get A Life!!”
-I dont use craigslist for socialization or anything so I dont care about people flagging anything because I NEVER get flagged. I sell electronics and never had a issue.
I’m a fan of flag. I just called a lady for a free box of JUNK that I was about to recycle. She changed her mind when I got there and wanted 20 bucks. I waisted my time on this crap so I flagged her. Having someone visit her for her junk she thought would be a great way to make someone pay money for something she listed as free. She’ll probably do it to someone else, flagging prevents people like this.
2 October 2008, 12:09 amIt’s also a great way to get rid of all those “Work at home” ads that pretend theyre a legit company when they aren’t.
bender says:
i think its funny that craigslist adminstays out of all the flag wars but yet they worry more about modifying the site to keep peace between businesses and individuals and to keep third party programs from modifying there stuff to make things harder yet they allow multi flag programs and malicious code to be inserted into postings to remove competitors is there anything to be done for the legitimate posters
4 October 2008, 12:15 amRyan Stille says:
FYI, I’ve released a new version of the script: http://www.stillnetstudios.com/2008/10/13/craigslist-spam-buttons-v13/
13 October 2008, 8:58 pmelarsen says:
Hi, I came across this site and thought I would give it a try. I have had just exactly the opposite happen to me. I had been posting in the personals. I think that someone for some reason took a disliking to me and started to flag me. He/she would flag, I would re-post. What I didn’t know is that after a time, CL would ghost my ads. In fact I didn’t even know what ghosting was until I did some research. All I knew was that when I went to post the ad, CL would say that I needed to have an account to post the ad which was something different. When I would post it would never show up. In addition to that, it seems as if I cannot interact with CL at all in any catagory from my computer. So clearly somehow my computer is being recognized. It is being recognized even BEFORE I enter an email address anywhere. A friend who is a computer guy suggested that I turn off my cable modem for an hour or so so that there would be a new IP address thinking that the computer was being recognized that way. I turned it and my wireless router off over night. Didn’t work. He also suggested that I download Mozilla as a browser because it is somehow less recognizable than Explorer, again to no avail. I also used adaware to clear out any cookies. Here is the downside to flagging. Can anyone help me?
26 October 2008, 6:00 amdiog3n3s says:
auto-flagging can be done and is quite easy, email me for more details if interested. btw, great script.
19 January 2009, 3:03 pmJim H says:
diog3n3s, post your email address. would like to learn more about how to auto-flag. thx.
1 February 2009, 1:16 pmSonny Buono says:
I used to know how it could be done…. by changing proxies……. so CL thinks multiple comps are flagging an adv…… but I heard it stopped working
24 February 2009, 2:58 amnobody says:
To those trying to justify the spamming of CL …
If everyone flags spam its not a difficult or time consuming process.
If nobody flags spam … CL will become overwhelmed and eventually useless. Then nobody will go there and all spammers will have accomplished is the destruction of a great resource.
If everyone douche with a business out of his garage started spammed CL see above.
The concept of spamming is that same element of greed that destroyed americas economy. People who are only out to get theirs at the expense of everyone else. This is why its worth flagging.
16 March 2009, 11:37 amRodrigoMarcus says:
diog3n3s! Contact me – got something to tell, thanx!
17 March 2009, 12:55 amFlagger says:
Even craigsflagger doesn't seem to be working anymore. If anyone has a real working way to flag spam and knock it off quickly, please let me know.
3 June 2009, 8:11 amBill says:
You can select multiple postings by holding "control" as you click on them. They line up at the top in the toolbar. Click to open, click to flag, close, repeat
3 June 2009, 11:37 amSG says:
I really hate to see something as simple,free, and open to all abused with these unconscious scumbags…
3 June 2009, 3:26 pmI would be happy to volunteer a few hours a week to remove repeated and redundant spam….
Did craigsflagger ever work or was it abused by the spammers ?
PLEASE someone step up and create a solution for this…..
Flagger says:
Craigsflagger used to work fairly well. Now it's a joke. I can run Craigsflagger 10,000 tries with 6,000 supposedly "successful" flags and it still doesn't kill an ad. I can't imagine why anyone would actually pay for that service. Proxy servers flagging is the only that's working for me now.
9 June 2009, 10:01 pmcarlitos says:
just wondering what type of proxy server can i use?
18 June 2009, 9:45 pmunkown says:
why don't somebody make a craigslist community flagging script, Where it's a website that u can enter a ad to flag and when u enter that ad you want to flag it will make your computer flag that ad and 5 other ads that were requested from other people (maybe just make it a popup windowa… I'm sure if you have enough people going to your site to flag ads it will work pretty good/fast figure 20 people posting ads to flag thats 20 real flags..
hell if there was a good programer make a p2p flagger where 20-100 people all connect to each other and when a flag is requested everyone connected to the site flags the ad.. hell i'm sure u could flag any ad pretty quck with something like that… best of all its not using proxies…..
20 June 2009, 9:39 pmAgnes says:
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12 July 2009, 2:32 amSpam Killer says:
Spamming is a big problem on Craigslist. I'm looking for 10 people who want to work together to remove spam off Craigslist. If you are interested and want to work together removing spam send email to clspamkiller1@gmail.com clspamkiller1 (at) gmail . com . thanks
7 August 2009, 11:37 amPegasus says:
People check out http://www.clflagger.com
You can use it to remove postings as well as keep your own postings alive for much longer time.
17 August 2009, 10:17 amSandwalker says:
AGNES – please contact me, I want to hire some CL flaggers to remove some spammers. email me sd (at) tabu.com
9 September 2009, 1:52 pmJulia says:
to: diog3n3s.
23 October 2009, 3:49 pmI have a problem. My post gets flagged every 10 min since I post it. It's fine in Sacramento area. I know, it's all about selling and someone who is trying to sell the car for more won't let me sell mine, because my price is lower. and it's a sporty car with body kits. I really need money, so I'm trying to sell it, but get flagged every time I post!!! Can anyone please help?? is there anti-flag script or something? I want to use this website, but looks like I have to forget this idea and start looking for other places to post my ads.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!
Lone Wolf Flagger says:
I am a so called Lone Wolf Flagger looking for other similar individuals to collaborate and assist with flagging efforts. If you are dedicated and have good real-time access to your flagging button I'd like to hear from you. Email me at lonewolf1923@live.com.
This group is not intended for automotive competitor or pet ad flaggers.
9 December 2009, 3:19 pmErnie says:
Agnes, please contact me as I'd like to get more details on effective Flagging. If you're still interested, let's get started.
Email me at: bizmaven@triad.rr.com
12 January 2010, 12:31 amJoeker says:
Does this still work. I've loaded it and when I click on SPAM on the left, it highlights red SPAM with a line thru it. It also shows this whenever I simply open a post. Is this normal? Am I flagging every post I look at?
Thanks for a great script & your help!
27 January 2010, 7:56 pmRyan says:
Joeker I don't know if it still works, CL changes their links around periodically and I haven't used the script for a long time.
It won't flag each link that you click on, it only flags when you click the SPAM link.
27 January 2010, 8:56 pmJoeker says:
OK – thanks – since there is no "real" confirmation that it is working, I figured I'd ask.
Should it show up as a red SPAM with a line thru it, or a checkmark as pictured above?
Also, is there something newer/better than this out there to quickly flag items? The SPAM on our local list is becoming so unbelievably blatant & annoying.
27 January 2010, 9:14 pmJoe
Ryan says:
The checkmark indicator was from an old version. I believe the most recent version uses the word SPAM with a strike through it.
27 January 2010, 9:25 pmJohnny says:
CL is a Cespool of spam and illegal activity. Its a clear sign that flagging doesn't work. In the big cities there are hundreds of dealers without permits operating on craigslist. There is everything from drugs to prostitution and even child porn cd-roms and not to mention the regulars which is 10000 counterfeit DVD, Phones, Software, Clothes posted daily.. The utlimate flagging tool would be a DA that puts that loser craig away for a long time for facilitating all this illegal activity.
3 February 2010, 10:17 pmRoxy says:
I think this is really unfair to people who are posting legitimate ads and having people use these programs to flag them down maliciously. I post ads for my business that fall in line 100% with craigslist rules, yet someone, perhaps a competitor flags my ads down within minutes. It's just unfair.
11 February 2010, 2:40 pmCathy says:
I have exactly the same problem as Roxy. This is completely UNFAIR, personally I think that Craigslist staff should change their policies and do something about these UNFAIR practices. So business have several posting for their business. However if I want to post my ad only once it is being flagged with NO REASON, just because I can be a competitor. I will be seeking help with that!!!
12 February 2010, 9:30 pmJoeker says:
There is no good way for 1 person to FLAG someone's ads. It takes several different IP's (people) to FLAG an ad. I've seen a number of businesses say "I'm not breaking the rules" yet next day they post similar ads in 3 categories in 2 different locations. I especially like the ones that add characters to the subject line yet claim they're doing no wrong.
It'd be better if all businesses had to pay for CL ads! That'd cut down on the over-posting and violations significantly! Better yet – how 'bout no business ads at all? Or move all business posting to a different section.
I've not seen any business which is following CL's Terms of Use (which they all agree to when they sign up) get flagged within minutes of posting.
Joe
12 February 2010, 11:48 pmJanet says:
I'm a small company that has been posting on CL for quite some time than all of a sudden my ads started getting flagged left and right by my competitor. I tried to reason with my competitor but they would not listen. I decided to make a program that would flag their multiple ads the put up on a daily basis. I contacted them and told them what I was going to do but they continued to flag my ads. I started flagging all there ads and guess what? They stopped flaggin my ads. I guess from time to time you need to fight fir with fire! it worked for me : )
clspamkiller1@gmail.com
12 February 2010, 11:49 pmFlagger says:
Janet, you're full of it. No program is working now that flags ads automatically. Also, effective Oct. 2009, Craigslist made the flagging system only work on flags where the IP addres was local to the ad. This killed the Craigsflagger program and all others. The only way to effectively flag ads now is to drive around and hit wireless hotspots. I do this often to fight back against my competition. I have a string of wireless locations lined out. I can flag anything off at will if I want to take the time.
23 February 2010, 9:03 pmJanet says:
Is that right? Let's test my program shall we. Forward me a couple of your ad links and we'll is if they come down or not. ; )
24 February 2010, 10:39 amBetty says:
I have a small business and a few days ago some guy by the name of the craigslist flagger started harassing me via E-mail telling me that he watches every ad that I post and he is going to Flagg me if I continue to post. I’m 100% sure its a competitor. Every time I post an ad, 5 minutes later it gets flag. The worst part is that this guy sends me tex messages threatening me telling me that some thing is going to happen to me if I continue to post.
I file a police report and the police told me they can’t really do nothing unless something happens to me. This monster goes by the name of the craigslist flagger using this email address CraigsList Master Flagger apr@socal.rr.com
This is the number he uses wo tex me some very nasty emails. 818-854-0743
I also file a report with Craig’s list and I havent got a reply from them yet.
25 February 2010, 6:13 amJoeker says:
One question – Are you posting legally (ie. by the Craigslist Terms of Use http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use )?
I've not seen people (competitors or not) flag posts that are not over-posted (multi-posts or multi-areas), prohibited, or in the wrong category (if you provide a service it belongs in services!).
Nobody should be flagging their competitors unless they're breaking the ToU. If they do, they shouldn't be unhappy when CL kicks ALL businesses off!
25 February 2010, 8:37 amJoe
Flagger says:
I still don't believe you Janet, think you're full of it. It won't let me post links here so how about an email address? I'll send you a few ad links and see if you can flag them off.
27 February 2010, 6:28 pm