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Scaling is not the issue. Keeping it relatively clean is the issue. Dealing with criminals and law enforcement. Keeping the community satisfied. Classifieds ads sites are a magnet for spam and all sorts of nastiness, and Craigslist is the biggest one.



By this evaluation, they have utterly failed. Craigslist is full of spam and criminals and users who are bitterly unhappy with the lousy UX.




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