stupid and insane people on craigslist - an almost coherent rant

I don't know if you're ready to see this. I wasn't - and I'm sorry I did. But I did. And I want you to see it too because I want you to be proactive and help do something about this the next time it ascends from the pit of the devil's colon.

Let me just state right now that no one in his or her right mind will blame craigslist for this. craigslist isn't responsible for eyeing every last ad. We're supposed to do that. We're suppoed to be responsible human beings and censor ourselves ~ have some common decency ~ get psychological help when neccessary ~ turn ourselves in to the authorities and spend the rest of our days repenting in prison chapel services while we learn to discern GOOD from EVIL.

Without further adieu:

You're probably wondering what the point is. I discovered this frightening site when I right clicked on the image source and followed the link back to the site, dropping the .jpeg extension of course because {I HAD TOO MUCH COFFEE TODAY|OBSESSIVE MUCH? WHY YES I AM}. Then I did what any horrified American would do and I called the number on the ad. The man I spoke with was taken back and seemed embarrassed by his own reaction to his very real confusion and shock.

After a few minutes of tinkering around on the site in question it became clear that, in addition to the obvious, the site is being used to host images used by an in-house craigslist ad posting service of some sort. The craigslist terms of service make no provision for posting agents, but I doubt they had in mind when they penned that rule to attempt to prevent any form of terrorist from running a posting service from some evil den of activity located God knows where. {WELL GOD DOES KNOW WHO AND FROM WHERE|GOD HAS YOUR NUMBER. REPENT NOW} An hour later I went back to where the ad sat, and because there is a God and God hates and rejects evil, too, it was gone— and in retrospect this seems very odd indeed.
 
Does anyone question why craigslist might lump so many craigslist marketers into the same algorithmic trash bin?
It's not just the fact that {wannabe internet terrorists (?)|internet terrorists (?)|wannabe palistinian terrorist sympathizers (?)|american-born-of-middle-eastern-descent-blackhatters (?)} might be manning posting companies into the USA out of the middle east - or worse, running them right here from the USA in some qauint middle class neighborhood in New Jersey right under our noses—

Sure, craigslist allows ads that totally appear to be posted by prostitutes and craigslist makes a monetary gain from ads that totally appear to be posted by prostitutes and then says they donate it all to charity—so it's easy to point the finger to cite how many instances the Big Guy Gets Away With It - but the other member of this symbiotic relationship has a lot to gain from the Big Guy and it does so willingly and without complaint, until Big Guy detoxes its system to prepare for keeping all appearances. (But in all fairness, that discussion belongs in a seperate post. I just couldn't resist)

—no, it's not just the internet terrorists :: it's all the little abuses added up over time :: the 1000's of ads posted daily by 1 person from 10 computers :: the teenaged pimple faced blackhatters who post filth-for-cash :: the adult blackhatters who post filth-for-cash :: the illegal cash-gifting couples having a wild and crazy time siphoning cash from Jobs & Small Biz :: the professional flaggers with no lives who flag posts who incite the teenaged pimple faced blackhatters who post filth-for-cash to post even more ads on craigslist. Will it never end?

It ends when you are ghosted or blocked. It ends when the cost of buying a phone verified account rises to 9$ each and you are no longer able to luxuriate in spam. It ended. Now you have to think about getting a real job; because you are now a fatality, ghosted or blocked {LOLZ|BA DA DA}.

And that's that.

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