As long as a business opportunity exists and can be protected by a shell company in another country, people are going to try it.īots, in some scenarios, can be fine to use. Of course, none of this stops people from using bots or developing bots for other people to use. They’re very good at putting a stop to bot activity, they’re good at removing or flagging posts and blacklisting URLs involved in mass bot posts, and they’re not hesitant to bring a lawsuit to the doorstep of a company providing or using a bot.
Craigslist actually has some of the most sophisticated bot detection and anti-spam protections available. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Some people feel that Craigslist’s simple, unsophisticated site design means that the people running it don’t know what they’re doing. They REALLY don’t like bots on their platform.Ĭraigslist has sued numerous people and businesses for creating or using bots to either post or scrape data from their site. Craigslist, you see, really does not like bots on their platform. Rather than a line, really, I’d say it’s something of a trench. Sites will offer APIs to allow data access but ban you if you scrape the same data without the API.Ĭraigslist is one of those lines in the sand, and it’s more firmly drawn than most.
Automation is fine and even encouraged in some cases, while it’s frowned upon or outright penalized in others. Automation is one of those tricky topics where there are lines drawn in the sand, but you don’t know who drew them, how long they’ve been there, or what they mean.
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