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The recovery.org data is all US based. Search on Kansas for example. - Each posting has a spam link on it, if you click it the posting will disappear for you.
by geoffc 17y ago
The recovery.org data is all US based. Search on Kansas for example.
- Each posting has a spam link on it, if you click it the posting will disappear for you. Once enough different people click it the posting is deleted.
- Currently postings don't expire but are displayed time decayed. i.e. most recent first. Hopefully we can get enough traffic to where we have to address this :-)
- You don't have to enter your full address when you post. You can enter your town and the posting will be placed in the center of the town. You decide how much locational information to give out
- We need to get over the chicken and egg problem of enough postings first
Thanks for all the feedback!
- yannis 17y agoWe need to get over the chicken and egg problem of enough postings first Suggestion use the ebay API to populate (it can also bring some affiliate income). Any thought for exposing your API. I think this can be a great application to foster micro-communities.
- geoffc 17y agoThanks for the ebay pointer I will look at it. I know scraping craigslist is not the way to go :-) Yes, we have discussed allowing private or subscription townfliers for micro-communities. That might be the next step.
- ximeng 17y agoAt first I assumed the spam link indicated that the entry had been identified as spam or had been posted by someone calling themselves "spam". Might want that to be clearer, e.g. "mark as spam". Or just change to hide and do some smart filtering.