With great power (accessibility), comes great responsibility. The erotic service ads are visible by plain view and can be accessed by anyone by simply clicking

With great power (accessibility), comes great responsibility. The erotic service ads are visible by plain view and can be accessed by anyone by simply clicking through a link. Craigslist should do a much better job of protecting kids and naive teens, and with some level of verification to protect your general user too. Many of the erotic services are bots looking to harvest email address from unsuspecting users. However, I do think removing them entirely is a joke too. They certainly aren't protecting anyone in that regard.