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Kijiji and the Curse of Craigslist
- mynameishere 19y agoPeople like Craig always seem (seem, since I don't have a wormhole into his brain) to have this moralistic I-am-not-for-profit attitude. Does it ever occur to his, seriously, that every single entity posting on his site is ravenously trying to make the greatest/easiest/cheapest possible buck? ...and that he is facilitating that immoral attitude?
- gyro_robo 19y agoJobs... Housing... Discussion... Funny posts... Personals... Gigs... I don't know about that. Making profit may be amoral, but I wouldn't say immoral.
- mynameishere 19y agoMy use of the word "immoral" is ironic.
- gyro_robo 19y agoYour use of the word "ironic" is Alanis Morissettic.
- mynameishere 19y agoNo. "the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning" http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony ...not that this is worth arguing about.
- gyro_robo 19y agoWhich is why your usage of "immoral" is not ironic.
- harvard_bum 19y agoThere's way too much spamming and phishing and scamming on Craigslist. Craig Newmark's business sense got him to a certain level of trust among consumers which helped grow the site, but now he has a responsibility to them now to honor that trust and invest in _protecting_ them. Otherwise, the Craigslist empire's days are surely numbered.