Girl's Craigslist ad posted about 20 hours ago has been removed. I'm currently messaging back and forth with her. Should I be concerned? Should I bring it up? Should I bail?
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- Thread starter Lovecolouredspark
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You probably shouldn't be on the internet. What is your gut telling you?
Was the message flagged for removal or deleted by author? Was this in Casual Encounters or Women Seeking Men? Or in the Therapeutic Services section? Was the ad sketchy to begin with or just the sort of post that was legit but bothered people so they flagged it?
How do you expect us to give any sort of answer when you are this brief?
Go for it. Or don't.
Was the message flagged for removal or deleted by author? Was this in Casual Encounters or Women Seeking Men? Or in the Therapeutic Services section? Was the ad sketchy to begin with or just the sort of post that was legit but bothered people so they flagged it?
How do you expect us to give any sort of answer when you are this brief?
Go for it. Or don't.
flagged for removal. Found in Casual Encounters marked as w4m. Ad wasn't sketchy till now. Nothing obviously offensive in it.
You probably shouldn't be on the internet. What is your gut telling you?
Was the message flagged for removal or deleted by author? Was this in Casual Encounters or Women Seeking Men? Or in the Therapeutic Services section? Was the ad sketchy to begin with or just the sort of post that was legit but bothered people so they flagged it? Is she sketchy in your chats?
How do you expect us to give any sort of answer when you are this brief?
Go for it. Or don't.
Was the message flagged for removal or deleted by author? Was this in Casual Encounters or Women Seeking Men? Or in the Therapeutic Services section? Was the ad sketchy to begin with or just the sort of post that was legit but bothered people so they flagged it? Is she sketchy in your chats?
How do you expect us to give any sort of answer when you are this brief?
Go for it. Or don't.
Ad was fairly typical: "wfm petite offering services - w4m" promises pics if requested. Promises good rates and a good time. 25 yrs of age. so on. Interestingly a quick image search of the pics she sent me turns up a page of a local escort site:
http://www.blackorchid.net/Bella.html
http://www.blackorchid.net/Jade.html
I don't know if that just means she worked for that agency in the past or if the pics were straight up ripped from the site. The pics were larger and show her face so I assume they are the originals which she also used for the site.
http://www.blackorchid.net/Bella.html
http://www.blackorchid.net/Jade.html
I don't know if that just means she worked for that agency in the past or if the pics were straight up ripped from the site. The pics were larger and show her face so I assume they are the originals which she also used for the site.
Read through this thread
https://perb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?202870-Sketched-out-was-I-over-cautious-or-on-the-money
https://perb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?202870-Sketched-out-was-I-over-cautious-or-on-the-money
Personals is not for posters offering services. It is for dating. Escorts posting in personals can expect to be flagged off for miscategorizing their ad. Even if posting in Therapeutic, they need to avoid the posting of escort services or expect to be flagged a lot. Escort ads are prohibited on CL and while many do post in the TS category, smart ones word their ads to meet posting rules (no sexual services for money to be implied).
All girls on Craigslist are extremely HOTT!!!! You should throw caution to the wind and ask them to marry you. You are a stud-muffin, and they should be happy to have you! All loving relationships now come through CL or Kajiji or WTF. Go get yours. Note: comments made in this post may not be accurate for all participants.
Craigslist ads appear and disappear all the time. These are free ads which get deleted if the system gets enough 'flags' asking for it to be removed. The flagging system is anonymous and (debateably) subject to massive abuse (as are anonymous free ads in the first place, which is the rationale for the community policing model Craigslist operates under).
For your specific case, the fact that her ad was flagged off means pretty much nothing. As noted above, an ad in casuals violates Clist posting policy. Enforcement varies community to community, quite possibly having to do with the local availability of people with a God complex and nothing better to do. The dogma is that ads are removed when a certain number of individual flags are received - on Clist, you can pretty much depend that the ad was removed because certain people were offended by its content, NOT because they had a negative (or ANY) interaction with her.
Google is your friend. Search 'Craigslist Flagging'. You will find oodles of entries, some passionately espousing the party line that Craigslist is a Utopian online marketplace self-regulated by its users. Some (more than a few) describing fairly systematic mob rule, bullying and vigilanteeism - especially in the personals (accompanied by dollops of self-righteousness) but quite regularly in the services and forsale areas. (Hypothetical - if you had access to may-or-may not exist flagging software that could generate hundreds of flags from spoofed e-mail addresses, would it not be tempting to target your competition?)
For your specific case, the fact that her ad was flagged off means pretty much nothing. As noted above, an ad in casuals violates Clist posting policy. Enforcement varies community to community, quite possibly having to do with the local availability of people with a God complex and nothing better to do. The dogma is that ads are removed when a certain number of individual flags are received - on Clist, you can pretty much depend that the ad was removed because certain people were offended by its content, NOT because they had a negative (or ANY) interaction with her.
Google is your friend. Search 'Craigslist Flagging'. You will find oodles of entries, some passionately espousing the party line that Craigslist is a Utopian online marketplace self-regulated by its users. Some (more than a few) describing fairly systematic mob rule, bullying and vigilanteeism - especially in the personals (accompanied by dollops of self-righteousness) but quite regularly in the services and forsale areas. (Hypothetical - if you had access to may-or-may not exist flagging software that could generate hundreds of flags from spoofed e-mail addresses, would it not be tempting to target your competition?)
