Craigslist Blog

Craigslist has manually screened every adult services post since May 2009. In a blog post last month, they noted: "before being posted each individual ad is reviewed by an attorney licensed to practice law in the US, trained to enforce craigslist’s posting guidelines, which are stricter than those typically used by yellow pages, newspapers, or any other company that we are aware of. More than 700,000 ads were rejected by those attorneys in the year following implementation of manual screening, for falling short of our guidelines." http://blog.craigslist.org/2010/08/manual-screening-matters/ Craigslist also does other stuff, including phone verification for every adult services ad: http://blog.craigslist.org/2010/05/an-open-invitation-to-rachel-lloyd/ As Craigslist notes, this is a lot more screening than any other services does, including classifieds or the Yellow Pages.

I duunno exactly what Craigslist is running on today, but some slides from 2012[1] include items like running MongoDB over "3 shards across 3 node replica sets" with "duplicate config in 2nd data center"; a "sharded multi-node" redis cluster; multiple "vertically partitioned" MySQL clusters; the actual application stack on top of that being mod_perl on Apache, and it was all operated by a 'small but growing' dedicated team. It might or might not be notable that the growth of that tech team included, one year later, hiring Larry Wall[2]. Given that, I'm not sure how to apply 'if Craigslist doesn't need it, I probably don't' as a general principle.... [1] https://www.slideshare.net/jzawodn/living-with-sql-and-nosql-at-craigs… [2] http://blog.craigslist.org/2013/10/15/artist-formerly-known/

Craiglist, because of its age, is interestingly built on Perl[1] and four years ago brought on Perl's founder, Larry Wall.[2] [1] https://www.craigslist.org/about/thanks (CL tech stack) [2] http://blog.craigslist.org/2013/10/15/artist-formerly-known/

http://blog.craigslist.org/2015/06/19/exit-stage-left/ Blog post on Craigslist's blog quoting Shakespeare.

Actual article: http://blog.craigslist.org/2010/08/family-friendly-ebay-classifieds/ IMO, who cares. This is basically Craig saying, "Stop slamming me, ebay has some niche classified site with sex ads too. Craig, stop denying the fact that you make a shit-ton of money from sex ads. Do something about it, or don't--but if you don't quit lying about the fact that you are trying.

Since it looks like you didn't make the effort to check the facts by yourself: http://blog.craigslist.org/2009/12/pipes-faucets/ . Again, Craig Newmark had absolutely nothing to do with the decision of blocking Yahoo pipes.

Have you read Craigslist's countersuit? http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/05/unlawful-and-unfair/ Craigslist alleged eBay specifically put key managers of eBay's Craigslist competitor, Kijiji, into the Craigslist board seat. Here, also, is better coverage of the decision: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-09/ebay-wins-lawsuit-against-cra… It wasn't a rout for eBay; the judge seems to have agreed with Craigslist on the critical issue of a board seat for eBay: On the question of EBay’s seat on Craigslist’s board, Chandler found that the agreement covering EBay’s investment didn’t guarantee it a director’s spot. The agreement specifically stated that if EBay started competing with Craigslist in the U.S. market for classified advertising, the minority shareholder couldn’t stop efforts to remove the board seat, Chandler said. EBay’s claims over the seat amounted to an “attempt to obtain a permanent board seat through litigation, when it could not obtain a permanent board seat through arms-length negotiations,” the judge said.