How to stop your posts from being flagged on Craigslist
I’m no Craigslist spammer, and this information isn’t intended to help the Craigslist spammers. On the contrary, I’m sharing this secret to help the many people out there who constantly find their legitimate Craigslist ads flagged simply because a large segment of the population doesn’t understand simple economics.
The Problem: You post an ad on Craigslist to sell a legitimate product or service, but “the community” flags your ad as being “inappropriate” or “prohibited.” Why do they flag these ads, if they are legitimate ads, you ask? Good question. Turns out that a lot of people are of the opinion that all goods should be sold at or below cost.
The Solution: If you find your ad being flagged, simply use the same email that you used to post your ad to edit it every so often. Each time you edit the ad, the “flag counter” is reset, meaning that you need that the small minority of vigilante flaggers has to start at the beginning.
“Social” sites always lead to this sort of thing – a small group of people control the content that everyone else sees. Ain’t democracy grand?
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:46 am
[...] How to stop your posts from being flagged on Craigslist [...]
July 10th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I am the target of someone with the software to flag me. I dont wanna flag them, I just want to keep my ads up. Any ideas?
It is not CL cuz my ads are legit and follow the rules, but it goes down 35 seconds fter it goes up…
September 7th, 2008 at 3:49 am
Simply post your ads on dontlookanyfurther.com , they offer a great craigslist alternative.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
dontlookanyfurther.com has very little traffic and don’t see where that would benefit a user like CL. How bout people just leave ads along and stop acting like they’re better then everyone and we’ll all be okay! If you have all that time to sit and flag ads, you’re a loser!
March 9th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
darn it had about half a page written I am so sick of craigslist, but did not answer the addition q
anywhoo, the more CL good posters get upset, frustrated and beat up by the CL socialist community
which I think is basically a few flaggers across the country, lil kids that should be in school
the more they will start migrating to sites like the one above or this one:
http://neverflagged.com
Ive had a number of good ads pulled, ads were good because they were in the right category, not spam etc etc according to TOS
I got sick of the flaggers, let them have CL
I am gone and so will be thousands of others in due time
good riddance craigs list
June 17th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Posting an ad, then deleteing it only to post again works very little.
Posting an ad and editing it every 10 mins. might help some more if the flag counter is re-set.
We don’t have time for that.
The flagging programs are too quick. So it’s how you repost is not much effective either. But… Take a ph. no. and if has Zero’s in it like the area code, use the letter O and not the zero.
Then the flaggers have to fill in thier end to catch it.
Now your back to square one. Your flagged again.
October 20th, 2010 at 12:23 am
Hi,
can we use the same images of apartment to post 100 ads in craigslist?
October 20th, 2010 at 12:26 am
I see that the ads are flagged now, but apart from the single picture of apartment i am not given further pics so what should be done to prevent flagging?Pls Reply its urgent.
October 20th, 2010 at 12:28 am
What is the normal procedure of posting 100 ads in Craigslist will the client be providing different images or so?
January 20th, 2011 at 6:46 pm
I will pay for a CL flagging program that works any suggestions?
February 2nd, 2011 at 3:56 pm
If your ad is getting flagged and you think its a ‘legit’ ad, maybe you should rethink it from the CL users point of view. We are there looking for something for a good price. When you post your BS for the same price or more as the local retail store, you tend to irritate the flaggers. Believe me, we are NOT all little kiddies out of school for a snow day. I do NOT want to see your entire inventory of used car bs every day. especially when you want to sell it for way more than its worth. BANG your ass is flagged. And if you still think your following all the rules, remember the best rule from the flagging FAQ:
“Anybody can flag anything for any reason. If they are having a Bad Hair Day they can flag your ad. If they don’t like your spelling they can flag your ad. If they think you are the 9th incarnation of the Devil they can flag your ad. If they think they are the 9th incarnation of the Devil they can flag your ad. OK?. It takes a number of flags to remove an ad so one person having a monthly moment can’t kill an ad. You have to annoy (or at least inspire) a number of people. That means you are quite possibly doing Something Bad. ”
Like the faq says, maybe your due for an attitude check.
February 2nd, 2011 at 6:28 pm
To above what gives you the right to judge other people just because you have a bad hair day. It seems like you have nothing better to do then to sit there and be a ass on CL. People have a right to post if they wanted to sell 1 pencil for 300 dollars if they wanted to. What gives you the right to judge? Elits jerks like you can go F them self’s. You are the reason why the only people on crags list is left are the azzholes, spammers, and jerks.
February 6th, 2011 at 8:44 pm
It is economics pure and simple in my case. Jax fl. moving site on cl is in a flagging war and it is so silly. No one wants competition and he or they think flagging will solve their problem. Not so. Childish.
February 13th, 2011 at 12:35 pm
when you make an entry on craigslist,simply make 2 entries
one entry being the actual item,the other could just be a series of numbers.
then delete the bogus entry.
if your item is flagged,simply edit the one you deleted with the info from your flagged posting,and undelete it.
the item will pop back up at the time it was posted originally
most flaggers don’t go back to see if you were flagged,they will be looking for you to repost.
February 13th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Hi, How’s about starting a Petition on CL to make it harder to flag a post?
If it took the person, who sit’s there all day long with only the purpose of flagging, the same effort as it takes us to repost an add, this would stop pretty damn soon.
Also they could limit the allowed flags per week or even day.
Wouldn’t a petition signed by millions of stressed users stop this madness?
February 17th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Hey John,
Two entries then delete one.
What about the 48hrs to delete repost.
What did I miss about your method.
Thanks
February 20th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
if your original post got flagged,and you undeleted the other post.
that isn’t overposting
you only posted once.
February 28th, 2011 at 11:06 am
Thank you John, that was insightful. My flagger is good, but I would imagin that this will help some people. Very smart you are :)
Hope it helps me… even though I know he/she has all the time in the world to just scroll up and down my category ALL day and night long. Beyond a loser.
I appreciate it!
March 12th, 2011 at 2:41 am
i have a save ad on a file and i check 3 times a day if my ad is flagged i repost using my template already saved
few clicks and done. also try to have at least 2 accounts because if you get flagged everyday is very easy to flag you
in 5 trys i flag and post i know that
March 13th, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Track your craigslist ads with CraigslistAdTracker. You will know who your flaggers are and block them by IP.
March 22nd, 2011 at 5:19 pm
I signed up for CragislistAdTracker and it is great. Next question is how do you block a flagger with their IP address?
April 19th, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Its totally ridiculous how someone just sit at a pc and just flag. you don’t like what you see then move on!!!!! you want a better deal keep looking for one. regardless of it you stll have to look at each ad until you find what your looking for!!!!! ppl post for number of reasons but because your a grumpy jackass your going to flag ppl. get a life and do something constructive. when you get old what will be your achievements and goals to brag”i was the best cl flagger back then” your an idiot. that goes for the guy also above who explanation to why you flag just proved how stupid,lonely and apparently in need of a car you are. damn dick head!!!!!!
April 23rd, 2011 at 11:49 pm
I have 2 flaggers that I have IPs for. I would like to know how to exclude them from loading my ad. I’m not a salesman, I just want to sell a couple of old computers and these guys flag my ads down in one click, I don’t know how.
April 29th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Come on, were waiting on how to block an ip address from invading your ad, or at least disabling them from pressing the flag buttons. Or at least when they press the flag button to take them to that screen where it says “thank you for flagging or nominating” i think when you see that means your flag was useless. Or…when someone loads your ad to automatically pretend that the flag was sent, shrinking the flagging options saying ” thanks for flagging”. I’ve seen that sometimes.
May 1st, 2011 at 10:32 am
Cutechick, its not that they sit there all day and flag for the heck of it. It’s all about competition these days. If that person that sells perticular games and gets flagged, he is going to flag who he thinks flagged them. Pretty sure the same person that is selling the exact stuff that hasn’t gotten flagged.
May 1st, 2011 at 8:46 pm
to user”me” If you don’t want to see it DO NOT LOOK. I fight for my country to be free everyday.. I fi wanna place and add selling a toaster for 10,000 i have a right to do so. Move over to IRAQ you sound like good material for that country.
May 17th, 2011 at 12:25 am
I had an ass-hold flag me because I said WARNING some scammers, and that if they flag you keep re-posting. Then the ass writes me an email telling me he has get this “…revoked my privilege from cl.” He kept flagging some of my ads and I kept re-posting. I tracked the email and finally I got his IP address for one of his emails and sent him is location and ISP. He sent me an apology, that he was a college student and I was selling things that he was sell and the my prices were too low. So he would not sell his stuff for more money. And that other computer shops where paying him to flag anyone who was selling computers for a low price.
Oh, ya … I traced the IP down to his dorm room with a tracer I found online.
So keep re-posting no matter what. DON’T LET THEM WIN. A easy way to repost with doing much work is as follows:
1. Open the ad that was flagged;
2. Then left hand corner of that page you will see “craigslist > manage posting”. RIGHT CLICK with your mouse and select “Open Link In New Tab”. DO THIS TWO TIME so you will have to additional pages open. DO NOT CLOSE THE ORIGINAL FLAGGED PAGE WHICH YOU OPENED YET.
3. Now click on the same statement as above i.e. “craigslist > manage posting” which will take you to cl’s home page and open another another posting on each of the other pages.
4. When you get to the page requesting the ad information be entered. GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL FLAGGED AD PAGE and click on VIEW in the MENU section on top of the page.
a. In the VIEW option select PAGE SOURCE.
b. High-Lite ONLY the part of your ad and copy it.
c. Then go to each of the two open ad posting pages and PASTE your copied AD in each of them. You can also just copy your Titles, prices, and location. Just paste it in each of your posting.
………….. you are ready to go, post one and leave the other open and if you get flagged again, just click post on the second one and there is it…….
I know it sound too much so some of us, but it takes about 30 seconds to do and once you do it a few time, you can do it in about 12 seconds. That’s what it takes me. SORRY GOT TO GET BACK TO WORK THE ROUTER IS DOWN.
GOOD LUCK AND GO GET THOSE SUCKERS!!!!
May 20th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
One thing you spammers are overlooking and bitching about.
If you are a business Craigslist doesn’t want you. The site was originally created for user to user interaction, and not for businesses to post anything.
The dealer categories were finally setup because you moochers wouldn’t obey the Terms of Use and kept spammin the site.
You are a bunch of selfish pigs that can’t be bound by such things as the desires of the owner of a private web site, all you can think of is the benifit YOU will derive from posting your entire inventory.
I falg all commercial posts not in the services area or one of the dealer categories. If I see you posting 20 or 30 ads regardless of the category, I flag them too.
Why? Because that was the agreement I signed up to.
You signed up to follow the rules also but you lied and posted your crap ads anyway. You are all a bunch of liars and I wouldn’t do business with you if you owned everything I wanted to buy.
You are scumbags and deserve every flag you get.
May 21st, 2011 at 9:48 pm
Yes, what the name says speaks alot. Stupid, we wouldn’t be posting and posting if we get flagged every second. We’re trying to atleast have a posting per day not literally spam up the whole page. It seems that way because we post and get flagged, post and get flagged, get the picture, gay. At a time like the economy right now doesn’t hurt for us to continue our business on craigslist.
May 23rd, 2011 at 6:34 pm
I agree with johnston gay!..our problem is out competitor is such a jerk and he flags us all day…can’t keep an ads up for more than an hour. And we know it’s him because we’ve tracked his ip for weeks. Does any one have a suggestion about blocking his ip…tried, but I’m unsucessfull. Thanks very much
June 6th, 2011 at 5:39 pm
I posted 15 pieces of clothes for an infant and asked $10 why would that be flagged that is rediculous. you dont like my price dont ask for it why flag its not like I was asking a rediculous price
I could see if I was asking 30+ or even $20 but I was asking less than $1 per piece of name brand clothing
June 9th, 2011 at 3:15 pm
it seems like a bunch of people are having issues with this flagging crap! i have an add for some used tires, the people next door to me do too. then there is this “tire lady”..she has an add for used tires too. So anyway, the people nextdoor and i get flagged. she is the only tire add left in this area. WTF! grr…so we have been in a flagging battle and im getting sick of it. i called her up pretending i was interested in a tire and i called her out on it. she told me i could check her account to show me she wasnt flagging me…dumby ya cant see who you flagged or who flagged you by looking at your craigslist account! UGH! annywayy…she said she wasnt flagging anyone…B.S! how is she the only one left standing?!?!?!
does anyone know how i can stop this crazy lady from flagging me again? i notice this every time i log in to repost! i dont have time to continuously post, post, post nor do i have time to flag, flag, flag and i dont even want to flag her. its pointless! HELP!
June 9th, 2011 at 11:32 pm
Flaggers suck, most are just haters or like has been noted are selling or offering the same thing as someone else who is doing it for less. At the same time though, spammers suck as well. Who wants to see the same nationwide ad on their “local” Craig’s List? Having had a repair business on Craig’s List for more than 5 years, i have seen many come and go but lately it’s getting very nasty out there due to the economy. And Craig’s list themselves have changed their system lately. Now i keep getting the “same or similar ad within 48 hours” when i try to post ad I haven’t even posted in 6 days! WTF? For those that want to get around posting limits, here’s a hint: get multiple e-mail addresses, proxy hide or change your IP manually, change your text ad’s into a single graphic (like a .jpg) and change the name of the .jpg when you post. O.K, rant over!
June 14th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
So those Hackers can hack the iPhones,Email accounts why they can’t help us for the Craigslist lol ? i personally my self own buying selling business on Craigslist, things was very good i make lot’s of money from Craigslist and i get my Hummer H2 plus Land in Costa Rica ,iam ready to move out from this Country but why can’t we stop this flagging shit ? it’s really sad, why the hell Craigslist have to be so hard now ? come on Hackers we need some Angel can help us
June 16th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
OMG!! Don’t any of you guys know that Craig’s list has a harrassment reporting section? Click on Help, and report harassment, and report your ad. CL will take care of it. If it’s true that your ad is legal, they can make it so it CANN’T be flagged down. CL values their dedicated members..they’re no fools over there…so stop playing the kiddies game, and play like an adult, will you?
June 16th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
don’t forget to give all in information you can if you want them to do something…if there is only one ad left up, and EVERYONE is getting flagged, give CL the urls…it makes it easier for them, …they are very busy you know…
June 18th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
well if they had to put captcha in when they spam problem solved for proxy flagger
June 18th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Too all the flaggers… You all must lead pathetic, miserable, lonely and loveless lives, that all you have time to do is flag legit ads… if you don’t like an ad, please just pass it by instead of flagging them over and over again.. No one is forcing you to read any ads. So just open ads that you are interested in, if in fact you have any interest in anything other than being pathetic losers.. PLEASE, GET A LIVE LIFE… LEAVE OTHERS ALONE… YOU ARE NOT gods that you have to police our ads…
June 18th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Some people think it takes more than 1 person to flag an ad… NOT.. if you have been taking notes, people now have programs that an ad can be flagged almost immediately… I just posted an ad, and 11 minutes after I posted it, it was already flagged… this is getting old, and CL should put a stop to it…
June 21st, 2011 at 5:11 pm
I maintain ads for unrelated stuff in two different categories. I have no problems at all with my ads being flagged – because I renew the ads only after waiting 2-3 days.
Meanwhile, my ads are buried under hundreds of copies of spam: from all over the country; or using the wrong category; and/or posting 30 times every day.
The problem is TOO FEW ads are being flagged.
June 25th, 2011 at 10:49 am
I think that cl should monitor what is being flagged. This is getting crazy. Flaggers should move to the next post if they don’t like what they see. Cl will have no real traffic if they let this bs continue.
June 26th, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Guys,
what you fail to understand is that most of these “flaggers” are doing is automated. There are tools, scripts, etc that will hit CL with flags, sometimes hundreds per second.
This can be malicious, it can be someone selling a TV who wants to knock competitors out of the running. Many reasons, but most of these scripts will mask the originating IP address. It’s really not needed as the response doesn’t have to back.
CL needs to write better filtering on their flags to check for this activity.
June 30th, 2011 at 12:47 am
What craigslist should have is a filter of “flags per second” it should detect when an ad is getting flag multiple times within a certain time of period, that ad should go into temporary immune status or something until they can finally say,”its a person/machine flagging maliciously. If craigslist can be updating their stupid crap like how pretty their website looks, why can’t they think of stuff like that too. They find ways for people not to post rather than helping them post. It’s really common that real flags don’t all accumulate all at once, think craigslist. It takes maybe one flag, then maybe 5 minutes another flag, then maybe another 10 minutes, get the picture.
June 30th, 2011 at 11:13 pm
I think the problem can be easily resolved if CL would stop counting a flag from a single IP address more than one time.
It’s ridiculous that in this day in technology one single person can flag an add. Where is the “community” in that?
I’ve been a victim of flagging by an anonymous flagger for over a year now. I’m about to give in and start paying Ebay again for anything I have to sell.
July 2nd, 2011 at 6:46 pm
I have a great idea that you might be able to avoid flaggers from flagging you constantly. It just popped in my head while driving to a burger stand. Things you need are of course a craigslist account and photobucket. A technique that lot of us would you use back then was the “peek a boo I see you trick”: when you post and delete and wait for at least an hour or 2 to undelete, or the shape shifting method: when you post a less attractive ad maybe with no phone number or clues it belonged to you but would wait an hour or 2 to change it to the proper ad. These old methods will now have the chances to get your ad ghosted. Let me give you an example what I do now. I create an ad of let say a picture of lots of furniture and stuff like business wise. I name the picture example2.jpg and uploaded to photobucket but don’t post to craigslist. Now I uploaded a picture of a cheap furniture for a messy price and name it example.jpg. I give it a title called Sofa furniture for $150 and city of Mcallen on craigslist. Noooww, wait about 2 hours and give the chance for the flaggers to see your ad and kind of walk away, chances that these flaggers look at ads early mornings. Wait about 12pm or 2pm and what you do is delete example.jpg from photobucket and rename the example2.jpg to example.jpg. What you did is change the linked picture to your proper picture ad without messing with craigslist changes. This gives your ad more durability and may avoid flaggers since they already think you posted the cheap furniture.
July 16th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
So what do ya do about an ad that is legitimately flagged, and keeps coming back?? A woman posts her furniture in my state and she is 80 miles away in a different state, yet lists her stuff as “in” my town. It’s false advertising, violates CL TOS, wastes my and everyone in my area’s time, and pushes legitimate local ads to the next planet. I’ve flagged her, reported her, left polite messages – no luck. How can her ads be blocked??
July 29th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
You should call that lady that is living 80 miles away from your town and tell her” hey man, you know, your posting in my territory man, mama mia pizzaria.”
August 7th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
I use my craigslist iPhone app to post. Had no problems except for now I get a error from cl that I can’t post with apple.com/ app in it. This is automatic at the end of my post and I can’t get rid of it. Any suggestions beside posting from a main computer
August 15th, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Bob:
seriously? Find a hobby
August 15th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Craigslist is become harder and harder to post for those who sell alot of stuff and become victims of getting flagged. Craigslist don’t give a shit if you keep getting flagged by your competitors. What is happening now is that the majority of the times when they tell you to provide your number for phone verfication when you already did in the begin, it means your getting ghosted fool. If you see that phone verfication crap, give up and don’t continue cause your getting ghosted. What its doing is tracking similarity words that have been flagged. Use special characters like these to substitute letters: À ó û. Ridiculous it may sound but at least you got to post right….
August 16th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
I have posted about a vet clinic who is ripping folks off and the ad is continuously flagged (the losers)…now when I try to repost CL wants a phone number and won’t let you use the same one….how does one get past this? I used different emails each time I post and change the ad a little each time but nothing works.
August 27th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
All of you losers that don’t have a life other than flagging people, how about you go get a REAL job and stop with your pathetic flagging/ghosting! If I want to sell something so be it. Really I mean how old can you really be if you have to act like a child UNLESS you really are one!!!
It doesn’t matter WHAT I am trying to sell, or how much it is, how I spell. That stuff shouldn’t matter, I can see if people are spamming with TONS of ads, but don’t flag just because. GROW THE FUCK UP PEOPLE!!!
September 1st, 2011 at 10:20 am
Because of the same thing everyone mentions (consistent flagging), it seems all of my ads are now ‘ghost ads’. I have changed my e-mail addresses, attempted to change the way the phone number is posted, etc. and the ads disappear. It doesn’t say that the ads are flagged and if I click on the link they give me, it says the ad is out there. BUT the ad is nowhere to be seen when looking in order of posting or searching by item.
Again, I have tried different e-mail addresses and everything, but it seems I was flagged so much (NOTHING ILLEGAL, NOTHING IMPROPER, NOTHING AGAINST CL RULES, MY PRICES ARE JUST LOWER). Any suggestions?
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:11 pm
So why is it you people think you have some sort of “rights” on CL? Certainly there are situations where things get flagged illegitimately, but if you are trying to use CL to run your business, perhaps you need a new business model. This was never the purpose of CL. I’ve sold/bought/solicited services numerous times but you want to run ads constantly for free and then bitch because other people don’t want to see your shit constantly? CL is not pimps fighting over a particular block (or at least it shouldn’t be). If you find this is the situation you have found yourself in perhaps it is you who need to get a life. Go pay to advertise if you want to dictate terms. If you are getting a service for absolutely free don’t whine about. Go somewhere else or create your own site if you don’t like it. Geez.
Oh, and let me just wait for some homophobic ass-hat to call me gay. Yeah, immaturity is the sole domain of the flaggers..
September 5th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
I am wondering why ppl would flag an ad in personals. I tried to use CL to place a personal ad, I swear there was nothing offensive or obscene in my ad … just hoping to meet someone. Yes, btw I have tried match.com and eharmony, but it seemed to me that guys who were committed enough to finding a relationship to have signed up for these sites weren’t the kind of guys I am interested in meeting. I was hoping CL would attract the attention of guys who were just interested in meeting someone new, but not yet desperate enough to have joined a commercial dating site.
Anyway, I tried posting a few times… and each time I got a couple of responses that seemed promising (and alot that didn’t of course). But every time I have posted an ad on CL, it is flagged and removed within an hour.
So what’s the motivation? I am not a business, so ppl offended by businesses posting on CL shouldn’t be bothered by my ad. I am not selling anything, so flaggers upset by a price being too high or too low shouldn’t be bothered by my ad. I am not competition for anyone trying to sell a product or service. I just don’t get the motivation. I swear I am not spamming either… just one person, not being obscene or offensive, and definitely not selling a service (g) hoping to meet someone else who seems interesting.
I would like to know more about the concept of blocking an ip if anyone knows more about this. It seems to me that anyone flagging my ad is just a random pissed off person, and if I could block their ip it would be nice so that if I decide to try again, they wouldn’t be able to see my ad … and could move on to being randomly pissed at other people.
Seriously though, CL should do something about the problem of pissed off flaggers. It gets old!!!
September 14th, 2011 at 3:26 am
They Took Errr Jobs!!
September 20th, 2011 at 9:25 am
I see the post here defending the flaggers. Yes occassionally there are ads that are spam and need to be flagged. But in most cases the flaggers are jealous pricks. Your price doesnt mean shit. you could have low prices , high prices or FREE and these assholes will still flag it. these are the pathetic losers like Sandy who probably are nothing more than basement trolls living in momma’s house with no life, no woman or man with the ” life hates me, guess ill go it worms ” mentality. I see the complaints about the high price flag, would you burn a business down if their prices are to high..no you would just go somewhere else. the same principle works for lower prices…i was flagged 36 times in one day…did i have reptative ads… no, did i put the ad back on after it was flagged.. yes…did i post in the wrong category…NO, was my ads violating some craigslist TOS…NO…thats 3 ads flagged 12 times each in one day…it boils down to jealous flagging cowards with little regard for anyone other than themselves who are threatened by other craigslist ads. only pricks and assholes flag like that…craigslist has had issues with raped craigslist users, murdered users, scammers ..ect….
And they allow these assholes to flag at will…
September 20th, 2011 at 10:28 am
sorry Sandy, i meant to say “amused” not you..forgive the mistype..again very sorry…
September 20th, 2011 at 10:33 am
And BTW “Amused”..its exactly that…assholes who believe this is their block and no one is allowed to post ads for a lesser price than theirs….these people defending flaggers are more than likely the ones flagging…the site is free, but if no one used it, craigslist would go down the fucking drain..same as any other business who loses customers… i say to everyone using craigslist…STOP…use the ebay free ads listings and fuck craigslist and its cronies…
September 27th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
I don’t know if Donna’s ever been flagged… HA! Craigslist Admin. people don’t give a “F” about you… I have wrote and report it so many times… no answer… there is one I even reported to the cops and Craigslist don’t give a “S” about it!
I am getting sick and tire of putting up my ad and get flagged out almost every 30 minutes… That “AH” is a “F” idiot who keep flagging, I believe it belongs to a guy name “Wilson Bishop” and also by the name “Eric Dada” who wants me to Ship the products and he send the MO… This guy have so many emails… DAMM I will get this guy one day!
September 27th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
The Above 2 are what Craigslist call “Dragonfly”, but once you report them to Craigslist to help other fellows, the “Dragonfly” or the “Flagger” will then flag your AD, and Craigslist don’t give a shit… I don’t know why these Craigslist people are doing, maybe they should change the name to CrackFlag.com {ASSHOLE}
October 4th, 2011 at 8:45 pm
Yeah craigslist doesn’t give a shit about us helpless honest posters but talk about them going after software to help post and shit like if there was no tomorrow. Stupid ass craigslist is worthless. By the way, let me know if you all know a site where you can copy and paste your competitors post link to get flagged. That be nice :).
Another thing, Man I thought by now someone in here would have an answer on how to protect your self from flagging. There has to be because I tried flaggin my competitor who mercilessly flags me and I can’t do shit to him, grrrr…
October 14th, 2011 at 7:48 pm
i just kind of tired of riposting up to 10 times a day i been flagged today 4 times or more already and i know am the only one in this area with like one nice little toy and some one has something to flag me with fast but you know what i repost fast there was one time up to 15 times a day but i repost fast and my staff on the tap all the time and my staff goes fast so you know o well there are people that want staff that others have and they cant afford it so they flag it
October 18th, 2011 at 5:27 pm
if you notice in the personals when a woman puts add up the gay guys flag it why is that? us guys get on there looking for a woman to have a nsa time with and the gay guys flag it thinking maybe will go to them that’s not fair why should they get theirs and we don’t get hours
October 19th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
What if we all post a question everytime we get flagged asking why we were flagged. If we all started doing that everyone could see how many people are being flagged. they claim that only 2% of flagging are mistakes let show the community that number is inaccurate.
November 4th, 2011 at 2:26 am
CL needs to require flaggers have an account and furthermore needs to set up a system where the flaggers can be flagged. This is really do-able, they just have to get off their lazy azzes and actually do it.
November 4th, 2011 at 11:31 am
Is there a way to find out who is flagging your adds
November 7th, 2011 at 10:37 am
I don’t feel as alone after reading all of this. I’m still pissed off, but at least I know it is not just me.
November 7th, 2011 at 10:55 am
SUggestions:
1. and this will be a pain for honest people but……. require anyone who wants to use Craigslist, have an account with a verified phone number. That will destroy the ability to flag and not been seen and logged. Actions can be taken with that information and filtering out of unethical behavior. It would also limit access (I’m guessing) from scammers in other countries.If your phone number does not match ones for that area, then you can’t play! International calls are not cheap. I know there are problems with this but it’s just the start of an idea. It can be tweaked!
2. …..and I know this will anger some people, make ad posting a fee paid service. I suggest this because doing so, will both discourage over-posting and create a revenue for craigslist. If they are making money from it, then they will be more interested in making sure the paying customers are happy. Since they make nothing from it now, it is understandable that they don’t care. It’s the “What’s in it for me” principle. This is not wrong or greedy….it’s being in business to make a profit and craigslist is a business.
November 14th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
I’ve had the same ad flagged a bunch of times, like clockwork, every Sunday. It is usually after I get some scam e-mails about the item, and how they want to ship me a check, even though my item says cash only. Is it against their terms to ask for precious metals as payment? I’m pretty sure it is mainly idiots who have nothing better to do, who also build computers, and don’t believe in competition, even though competition drives business. They are definitely economics flunkies.
The unofficial FAQ about flagging is pretty pathetic, too. Really, a person who gets annoyed at having to repost an item has mental problems, but the people who get off being trolls and screwing up someone’s day are perfectly normal? It would obviously written by some liberal ass-hat who thinks a strong iron fist and monopolies is the only way business is to be conducted.
November 16th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
No metter whatever you try the ads will be get flagged if you post multiple ads with same account and IP .Proxy Ip addresses also not a option,whenever your ads get flagged just re post but do not re poat with same words,change your ad little bit and play with the words .DO NOT re post same ad with same words and title etc..For now there is no chance to stop this flagging, Craigslist stupid Site but worst thing is everyone is using that because there is no that many other pages have high traffic like that
November 18th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
I would have thought we must have some very good professional computer geeks in this USA that can help us beat “the flagger”and harassment on CL but apparently not. You’re all right, CL does not care. This is all very amusing to them, and it’s sad that so many are falling for it. I WAS waiting for someone to answer Elisa from 032211 and for Adam of 03132011 to elaborate. I also SECOND the Oct 4th comment that I also thought by now someone would have an answer on how to protect your self from flagging. I don’t need CL crap and will not continue to support it and use it. IT’S NOT NECESSARY. I have found that searching the web for the individual service websites or EBAY and many other sites keep buyers and sellers honest, CL does not, so why go there? If you get scammed, you should have known better and it’s only your own fault.
I have much more confidence in other website’s ads anyway. Craiglist supports nothing but ID theft scams and money stealing scams. Have a yard sale if you have to sell something, or if you just want to get rid of something, donate it to a Charitable store. JUST SAY NO!
November 21st, 2011 at 4:04 am
This could all be simply solved if CL would pull their heads out of the sand…It’s just this simple…every time someone flags they must enter a captcha..something that is now not required..I am a DJ and I am being flagged by a Limo company who also provides dj services..their thought is that they are eliminating competition…this is just wrong..I am not the only one being flagged..and this person actually shut down the events portion of CL in So Cal for quite some time because they flagged everyone…they are from Manilla and have several familly members who work at this day and night…Sad
November 21st, 2011 at 10:09 am
Craigslist is a joke. It would be great if the flaggers would get off of their high horses and leave posters alone. Also, when you go to the ‘help’ forums for help, they ridicule, cuss at, and never offer any assistance to the posters. So what are we to do? No one at Craigslist will give any answers to emails or phone calls. There is something I can do though I can go back to ebay. I’d rather pay than to post than go through the BS on craigslist.
December 2nd, 2011 at 12:23 am
Whatever you do it won’t help you to save your Ads on CL,new Spam softwares very strong and now Craigslist hiring people to flag Ads as well ,iam personally my self Software Engineer even i can’t find the way to keep my Ads safe,all those Web pages offering service is a SCAM,do not waste your money for them .Craigs is a gay and low life jerk, Craigslist spouse to be free Ad posting site but now be coming money making place for them with this monthly ripping people of shit
December 3rd, 2011 at 9:40 pm
DAMN, I thought by nooooooow someone would have a solution to block flags. It’s no use, competition flag competition is ridiculous. What do we have to do to make them stop, threathen them, yeah right, that will only cause more problems. I use to be like the only person offering what I offer back 3 years ago. Now theres like 6 or 7 people and everyone is flagging each other, its crazy… No one is immune to flagging. The only solution is,move out, get a different house, new number, new internet, start fresh. Your ads will be stronger again. If you use photobucket to post images, change it, change everything. One little trace from your old ways of posting will be enough for craigslist to say,”Heeeyy, thats the other guy with that weak account”
December 8th, 2011 at 7:41 pm
….here’s another way to avoid the flaggers….Start an ad with any innocious tile and content and with no contact info, i.e. “Fuzzy Blankets For Sale”. Let it sit for an hour or 2, then edit it the way you want it! Flaggers don’t usually go too deep into the ads, and they will need to “refresh” the page with an F5 to see a new edit! Another (as previously written)is to delete your ad a few minutes after it appears, then “repost” it after and hour or so. If a Flagger is “trying” to find you…you will need to edit your obvious info with spaces and different characters and jpegs. You have to be smarter than the average neanderthal flagger…sitting in his underwear scratching his balls and hitting the search & flag buttons! It’s doable people!
December 13th, 2011 at 7:57 pm
I am happy that I found this site. I have posted several ads to sell computer tablets. I am not a scammer – but someone who is over zealous about making a good deal and about giving good gifts. I was one of the maniacs who HUNTED DOWN 2 extra HP Touchpads – ordered in August got them delivered in October. I bought them as gifts for two of my cousins. For Black Friday, I bought an Acer Iconia and a Dell Streak, once again – to give as gifts. The Acer is unopened and the Dell only opened to turn it on. Over the past two weeks, I have gotten great deals on HTC tablets. Here I am – having sweated over these TPs just to have one cousin say she is not interested and the other say that she was only looking for a tablet for her husband. I can return the Dell and the Acer and get a full refund, but decided to sell them both for LESS than what they are now in the stores. Also, I decided to sell my two week old Flyer because I ordered the View for a great price. Again, I have advertised it for $83 LESS than what it would cost in Best Buy.
Now, I have noticed that my ads are flagged and removed repeatedly – and this often comes after I have gotten a bogus inquiry and have made it clear that “NO, I am not shipping this to your brother who is supposedly drilling for oil in West Africa…” or some such mess I have to say. And I have got this story TWICE already.
Now that I know that my ads are probably being flagged by childish competitors or even prospective customers who want me to sell at a lower price, I will just keep posting – But it pisses me off because I look at other ads where people are asking for MORE money for the same product than I am asking. I have made it expressly clear, however, that I will no longer even respond to anyone who is asking me questions which I have already answered in my ad or who are requesting that I compromise on price, payment method, or meeting place for the sale.
Very sad that folks get to just interfere this way, usually for no other reason than spite.
December 14th, 2011 at 1:19 am
this thread was enlightening, although it sucked to weed through ppl who were really just whining (flaggers and antiflaggers alike) to get to actual 1-2-3 steps that will help with posting. thank u all who gave actual examples and meat and potatoes. i learned a few tricks from you.
January 3rd, 2012 at 3:31 pm
wow sure are a lot of butt hurt people here.
January 3rd, 2012 at 10:18 pm
quit bitching people and post SOLUTIONS…. UGH!
January 3rd, 2012 at 10:23 pm
I’ve decided to close the comments on this post.
Best,
Eddie