Wired isn't ambiguous in the way it chooses to package this article: a title like "Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess" and an "Extreme Makeover" section showing how

Wired isn't ambiguous in the way it chooses to package this article: a title like "Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess" and an "Extreme Makeover" section showing how it should look like (at least one of the suggestions resides firmly in Designerland, where users upload nice little arty photos of their bikes, all in the correct size and never a goatse image..) As for the text itself, I'm still not sure if it's an intentional self-parody or whether Wired seriously claims CL is closed and distrustful for letting anyone post anonymously rather than requiring them to register and partake in some "networking features", or that it has less value for not having tags. I find the conclusion that all this has to do with "Newmark and Buckmaster's wariness about what humans" particularly weird. Personally CL's approach of getting out of the user's way seems a lot more humane to me than forcing the latest UI trend on your users because the CEO read about it in last month's Wired.