Some companies are using robots to mark the competitors ads on Craigslist as spam, which is why they are automatically removed from the site.
According to Mercury News, seriously paid attention to this problem, Doug Kelly (Doug Kelley), the owner of Cleaning carpets from Sacramento (California, USA). At some point he began to notice that his ads are lost. He added them again, but they disappeared again.
Since then, Mr. Kelly has already spent $ 11,000 in attorney and court costs, but it could reveal that some firms ( including their competitors ) are using a feature of Craigslist in the selfish interests. Under the rules of the resource, if a significant number of unique users mark as spam posting, it is automatically removed from the site.
According to the organization WiredSafety, poorly moderated site Craigslist. As an example of how it would be necessary to organize the work, the organization leading online auction site eBay. In response, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster (Jim Buckmaster) told Mercury News, that the site continually work is underway to identify and neutralize ' bad ' programs of any kind, and the accounts of offenders are removed.
Doug Kelly, all of this does not work. Advertisements continued to be removed and, without waiting for a response from customer service Craigslist, he figured out a competitor removes ads. Now, against another firm engaged in cleaning the premises, prosecuted for libel and unfair competition. In Doug Kelly has all the chances to win, because the defendant has ignored all appeals lawyer.
Techdirt. com, in turn, said that the problem could be solved more fine-tuning site Craigslist. As an example they cite ' Wikipedia ' (where the attacks happen from time to time information of vandalism ), but the remote user account is still viewed by moderators. These, then, can recover deleted information inappropriately and even ban for some time to edit it. However, it is worth noting that the amount of information in the online encyclopedia is substantially less than the international listings.

