drriley

Anyone regular post on Backpage.com and familiar with their new and abusive "community" moderation? This permits any visitor to Backpage to "flag" an ad. I'm not sure what, if any limitation/criteria, Backpage has on that (e.g., is a single flag enough, or does it take multiple? Is there any review by Backpage staff?). My experience is that there is no limit (a single flag is sufficient) and there is no review by Backpage (as evidenced by the randomness of PAID ads that are removed by the "Community," and how the identical ad posted in one city remains while in another City the "Community" has flagged it and it gets deleted).

Of course, to anyone who regularly posts to Backpage.com and sees their money thrown away on ads that are immediately deleted by the "Community" it is evident that it is the competition that is trying to shut you down, by deleting your ads that compete with theirs!

Of course this is all great for Backpage.com as they can claim that this form of moderation is completely out of their hands, they are not in any way responsible, it is up to the "Community" to set and enforce standards, and finally ... of course ... it means Backpage.com can rake in even more money as advertisers are forced to keep paying to repost deleted ads if they wish to keep using Backpage.