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Unofficial Flag FAQ



Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about flags and your craigslist ad. note



Page updated 12-16-2011


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. Q: Aaaak!. My ad got flagged off! Wazzup with that??

Q: Should I flag ads and what do those flag links do??

Q: What's the story with email flags?

Q: Hey, I can't post. Did I get blocked!!??

Q: How can I get help with my flagged or blocked ad?

Q: What about Shannon Lewis, Enam and the other Black Hats?

Q: So who are *you* people and are you tracking me?

Q: Why is this FAQ linked on craigslist?







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The links have been changed. This note is for the benefit of people reading old posts that contain the old links.

If you never got a confirmation email, or you got an error about a "similar ad", ask about it in the Help Desk forum. 

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This link serves old posts. The W4M info has moved, go here.

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The links have changed. The new link is: User Flag Examples.

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Wikkipedia?






If you found this item from Wikkipedia or possibly some very old forum links, well...the links have changed. Rather than doing redirects to the new links, we recommend you just take the relevant page from the top. You will see the links Wikkipedia references. Those links are self referential.We strongly recommend you review the entire Flags FAQ. People with agendas of various sorts have been attempting to influence the Wikki info to serve themselves. Be wary.

Go HERE for info on the Flag Help foruum.

We would like to take a moment to correct an error on Wikkipedia's part (we got tired of trying to keep them straitened out directly). The Flag Help forum is very much an official craigslist forum--it is craigslist. It gets about the same support from craigslist as any other official forum, that is it is not directly moderated but user forum flagging is supported and staff removes flagged forum posts---or so they say. Posts do vanish to the infamous Isle Of Misfit Threads---or they are simply deleted. The people "helping" in the forum are indeed self appointed volunteers, are unsupervised, and are not infrequently trollish. But there are folks people genuinely trying to help people too.



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