The Impact Of Craigslist Implementing A Different Captcha System

Sometime last week, Craigslist has implemented another captcha system and it's called reCaptcha. This has created problems for those who use auto-posters to post ads on Craigslist automatically instead of doing it manually. What this does is it renders most automation of their Craigslist posting virtually useless.

The reCaptcha module that Craigslist deployed was started in the Los Angeles area in the Jobs category, but it eventually spread out throughout all cities. Craigslist advertisers then rewrote their ads and put it in either the Service or the For Sale categories. About a week later, it went to all categories.

Recently, they included the reCaptcha challenge in the creation of the Craigslist accounts. Thus when you either post an ad or need to create a Craigslist account, you would need to answer the reCaptcha challenge to be successful.

For those of you who still post on Craigslist manually, there is no impact. However, if you're blasting 400 ads a day, there is a definite impact since the new captcha challenge requires you to enter two words instead of one. Because research shows that there's only a 15% success rate at the most, it makes it difficult for computer programs to recognize the new method that it's now using and even a human being has problems reading the captcha image being displayed.

Does that mean that your auto-posting days are over? Probably not. It becomes more challenging though. Programmers have modified their software programs to allow their users to enter the answer to the reCaptcha challenge. I'm sure there's a way around it because someone will eventually find a way around the reCaptcha function that Craigslist is now using. Google has tried it with their Gmail captcha challenge but others have already solved it. The answer to the reCaptcha challenge would be a matter of time. But some programmers have conceded that it's unsolvable at this time.

Note that Craigslist encourage you to market your products and services locally and if your answer to the reCaptcha challenge is close enough, you've pretty much answered it successfully.

For example, if the reCaptcha challenge shows the words "We're Successful", you can type the following answers and you have basically answered the challenge:

• weresuccessful
• we're successful
• were successful
• Or any combination of upper or lower case characters since the reCaptcha challenge is not case sensitive.

But I tell you, programmers who sell autoposters are scrambling to find a solution and the closest they get to is do some recoding so that it gives them an interface to type in the answer to the challenge.

Another solution is to contract the function to have someone else enter the answer to the captcha code. That means that someone at the other end must have the program that interacts with the autoposting software that you use. That means you pay for that function and it won't be cheap.

Nevertheless, autoposting continues unless Craigslist comes up with another snag.

However, if you're still posting on Craigslist and you have trouble getting your ads up, we at Classified Ad Masters have an answer to your problems. We also have a way to keep you posting effectively as possible.

What's Wrong With Network Marketing?

I used to be in MLM, but now I've been doing affiliate marketing. How is network marketing screwed up? Nothing is screwed up about this system. It's those who abuse the system, those who continue front line recruiting, like what's happening in my last company.

Front line recruiting keeps going and going and going while those who are already in it are not getting any help from the person who brought them into the business. My former upline Michele even told me that I shouldn't expect any return calls from her. I remember Kim saying in one of her courses that if you turn your back on your enrollee, they're just going to disappear. Well it happened when I decided to leave, especially when this Michele tried to make it look like it's my fault by covering up her mistakes. Her direct upline doesn't even have time for any one of her frontline distributors.

I thought I was the only person who went through this, but I talked to other distributors in the company I worked with and they have the same complaint.

After I left, I told her on a chat session that I was sorry that we didn't work out. I thought it was the most respectable thing to say, at least I didn't disappear out of thin air, but she started rambling that network marketing is not for me, that if I don't follow the system of chasing people and spending hundreds of dollars on leads that were filled out by people who were tire-kickers looking for a freebie like a laptop or a digital camera, and get on useless team calls that were rehashed from someone else's team calls. What a waste of time to listen to crap that's not helping us close any sales. After all, that's what we're suppose to do. Basically, that's what the uplines want me to do and as long as this is their standard practice, my reservation remains high.

Anyways, what's my point here? Network marketing, one of the most ethical forms of business today, becomes defaced, picked on, crapped on by the 95% (including me) who dropped out, because the leaders focus solely on recruiting, picking up anyone on the street who aren't qualified to work this type of business in the first place and then when they quit, they started filing complaints on other boards or the ripoff report that this company is bad or the leaders are bad (which most of them are or are becoming) misusing this concept by continuously recruiting instead of focusing on customer service.

Network marketing remains a powerful people-based model to exponentially explode your organization, but if you misuse it, people in your downline will start deserting. If you're willing to train the 8 to 12 good people to doe the same thing you're doing, 5 levels later, your 5th level will have over 32,768 distributors. Theoretically, this is possible. Less is more by having 8 distributors in your frontline, that is much better than having 512 distributors in your frontline. Besides, how can you get a life by having that many distributors in your frontline and keep them afloat. Some of them would have quit by now.

My advice to you all is before you join your next network marketing company, ask the hard questions before you dig into the business and dish out $100, 200, 500, or even $3,000 to get started. That's because you're going to need them when you get stuck.

So that's what I wanted to say.

Sidney

http://aboutsidney.blogspot.com