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This might hint at one reason CraigsList still exists as it does. There is powerful signaling built into how people make their listing. It conveys a lot about w
by acgourley 14y ago
This might hint at one reason CraigsList still exists as it does. There is powerful signaling built into how people make their listing. It conveys a lot about who the seller is and how the transaction will work.
- ShabbyDoo 14y agoSome friends who are using OkCupid say that their potential date's use of proper grammar is one of the best predictors of compatibility and that this signal is surprisingly hard to fake, especially in mail exchanges (vs. profiles which could be wordsmithed by a friend). I'd never thought about the idea that a "better" designed for-sale site where users would be lead toward creating a proper listing would actually provide worse subjective predictors.