Talk:Craigslist

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[edit] Schaffer the Darklord

Should we mention the song "Craig's List" by nerdcore rapper Schaffer the Darklord? Brand Eks (talk) 19:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't, for fear it will encourage a trivia section. Carl.bunderson (talk) 20:42, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
I was thinking just adding a bullet point to the significant events section. After all, how many websites (and their owners) have songs about them? Brand Eks (talk) 18:14, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
I agree it's cool, but is a bit to much like trivia. (IMO) --Rocksanddirt (talk) 21:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FBI: Craigslist Used In Murder-For-Hire Case

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22860988/ Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 14:55, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

interesting. Not relevant to the article I think, excpet possibly to point out Buckmaster's comment regarding users being the ones to report her. --Rocksanddirt (talk) 17:06, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I wouldn't be averse to including it in the article. Seems interesting enough, and as long as the article is on the MSNBC site, I'd say it's notable. Carl.bunderson (talk) 04:23, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Job scams

Such a significant portion of Jobs listed on Craigslist here (Indianapolis, IN, US) are hoaxes or scams that I feel this phenomenon deserves mention in the article. Well over half of the ads are obvious scams, pyramid schemes, etc. The percent is even higher under Services. These two categories are essentially made not useful, in this city, due to the crud that is posted. Craigslist's allowance for changing font colors in job postings enables posters to embed random words and passages inside the post as lightyellow, I don't know what purpose this servers, maybe it bypasses a filter somehow.

Apartment rental listings are also made less than useful by the massive overposting. Today on 3/21/08, going into the weekend, there's about 100 rentals posted, and most have the same format in the title. These posts have an ID number embedded in the post, as in, the ID of the poster.

Take away Apartments, Jobs, and Services, and Craigslist here (ymmv) is severly limited in its reach. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.2.33.113 (talk) 19:12, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

While I don't disagree that some things are a problem, the encyclopedia article needs references to reliable sources. --Rocksanddirt (talk) 03:53, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Link demonstrating job scams: http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/search/jjj?addFour=part-time —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.136.15.34 (talk) 22:56, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
a link to a cl page with listings is not a reliable third party source discussing the prevelance of scam employment ads. I don't disagree that it's a problem at cl, but an encyclopedia needs references. --Rocksanddirt (talk) 00:10, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] random poor behavior

I removed a section on some hoax stuff. There needs to be reliable sources for that kind of thing. --Rocksanddirt (talk) 03:53, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

It also was in the wrong section, which is about craigslist itself and not things that happen in the wider world that happen to involve craigslist. Overall, the consensus here seems to be that we don't want to make a list, in this article at least, of everything that happens on craigslist. Wikidemo (talk) 14:14, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Murders are trivial???

I don't think the murder of someone using the subject of an article is unnotable, especially when it is not an intrinsic part of that subject. If we were talking about the Smith & Wesson .357 magnum, then it would be unmanageable to list all the murders. But last time I checked, Craigslist's primary goal wasn't illicit activity. Beyond that, in one instance (Michael John Anderson) the murder itself has been referred to since by the media in general as "The Craigslist Murder." That would seem to pretty much make it a given to be included. 24.24.211.239 (talk) 21:32, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

ABC News Article entitled "Teen Charged in Craigslist Killing" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.24.211.239 (talk) 21:35, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

If a phone were used to arrange a murder, should that then go in the telephone article? —EncMstr (talk) 00:46, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
The press has a fascination with the morbid dangers of technology. No doubt the first few murders that involved the telephone drew lots of news stories heralding the "telephone murders." Fortunately we are not the press. Wikidemo (talk) 00:51, 17 May 2008 (UTC)