help > flags and community moderation

We receive tens of thousands of free classified postings each day, such that our small staff would be hard pressed to manually review even 1% of them.

Instead, we're trying hard to enable the community to successfully moderate craigslist.

By using the flagging feature located near the top of each post, you can take action if you feel a post is miscategorized or for any reason does not belong.

If a post receives too many flags it will automatically be put on hold or returned (only one flag per person per post is counted).

This system is a work-in-progress, and suffers all the deficiencies of a democracy -- if you have ideas for improving it, please let us know in the feedback forum.

Posts that are removed unfairly may be reposted.