Comments on: Whither art thou, Craigslist? http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/10/09/whither-art-thou-craigslist/ Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tiffany http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/10/09/whither-art-thou-craigslist/comment-page-1/#comment-6179 Tiffany Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:10:46 +0000 http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/10/09/whither-art-thou-craigslist/#comment-6179 Craigslist was a good place to find geeky, cutting-edge type people simply because it was a site known mostly to people who spend all their time on the Internet back before that was mainstream. It was a niche site. Craigslist's niche-ness isn't coming back just because of this. That said, the fee WILL prevent a lot of the crap postings from getting posted and re-posted. It will be more useful as an actual job board than it is right now. But it will probably also prevent classically hilarious posts like the girl who wanted to hire a bunch of hot women to be Playboy bunnies for her boyfriend's birthday party. That stuff was what made Craigslist so much fun, and I'll miss it. Craigslist was a good place to find geeky, cutting-edge type people simply because it was a site known mostly to people who spend all their time on the Internet back before that was mainstream. It was a niche site.

Craigslist’s niche-ness isn’t coming back just because of this. That said, the fee WILL prevent a lot of the crap postings from getting posted and re-posted. It will be more useful as an actual job board than it is right now.

But it will probably also prevent classically hilarious posts like the girl who wanted to hire a bunch of hot women to be Playboy bunnies for her boyfriend’s birthday party. That stuff was what made Craigslist so much fun, and I’ll miss it.

]]> By: tornadic http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/10/09/whither-art-thou-craigslist/comment-page-1/#comment-6178 tornadic Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:08:02 +0000 http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/10/09/whither-art-thou-craigslist/#comment-6178 Just as a note, Craigslist's only source of income is pay-per-ads in San Fran, New York, and LA. I guess they have decided these other cities large enough to warrant a paid service... Just as a note, Craigslist’s only source of income is pay-per-ads in San Fran, New York, and LA. I guess they have decided these other cities large enough to warrant a paid service…

]]> By: wayan http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/10/09/whither-art-thou-craigslist/comment-page-1/#comment-6177 wayan Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:31:53 +0000 http://dc.metblogs.com/2006/10/09/whither-art-thou-craigslist/#comment-6177 About damn time! Craigslist used to be the best place to find geeky edgy folks or jobs for a geeky edge guy. Now its over-run with multiple listings of crap - each repeated daily, no hourly, to stay on the top of the site. Charge even a pittance and some of that swill will dissapate. Now if they could only do the same for apartment listings. About damn time!

Craigslist used to be the best place to find geeky edgy folks or jobs for a geeky edge guy. Now its over-run with multiple listings of crap – each repeated daily, no hourly, to stay on the top of the site. Charge even a pittance and some of that swill will dissapate.

Now if they could only do the same for apartment listings.

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