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Dear Craigslist Staff,
For over a decade, people have been relying on your website to put food on the table and to provide financial support their families. Our economy has gone to hell in a hand basket. Now more than ever, people need to communicate their products and services through your website in order to live a better life... in order to escape corporate America, the (obvious) modern day version of SLAVERY!...
We were the one's who drove your traffic ranking through the roof. We were the one's who made you who you are today! We were the one's who sacrificed hours and hours of time hacking away at the keyboard, trying to figure out your system... and you know what? We loved it! It was a game in which the ONLY people that got rewarded were those who took the time to MASTER your system. It was PERFECT in so many ways.
By your actions this past week, you have sent a very strong message to the entire community that believed in you... The Craigslist professional power posting community is well over 100,000 members strong and we will not be left out in the cold.
On Monday May 12th, 2008, I will set into motion a community wide movement, urging my fellow posters and business owners to direct their ad posting efforts and all of the traffic that comes from those efforts to other up-and-coming classified ad sites like Back Page and Kijiji.
You have essentially "Kicked Your Children out of your House."
I realize that once the movement starts and your ranking begins to fall off the map (which has already begun), you will remove some of these ridiculous filters and hoops to jump through, but for many it will be too late. They have already witnessed the ruthless acts that you are capable of.
Some people will come back to your community, and Craigslist Masters will still be here teaching them how to post their ads to your website, even if they need to send in a BLOOD SAMPLE and DENTAL RECORDS. But I believe a lot of your children will never return.
Erik Welker ~
Founder CLM
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