WTH is it for? I swear half the ads have some weird 6 pt type ramblings at the bottom. Is it just to attract googlers? Is it a cult? It freaks me out completely.





WTH is it for? I swear half the ads have some weird 6 pt type ramblings at the bottom. Is it just to attract googlers? Is it a cult? It freaks me out completely.




Yes, it fucking freaks me out too! I always feel like there is some evil in those words. Maybe it's me being a paranoid freak, but it is totally creepy. I'd like to know what the hell they are too!
yeah its for google/search engines. they used to make the texts the same color as the backgrounds but nowadays they dont even bother hiding it.
a lot of websites and ebay auctions have them.. just highlight the page where it looks blank and abnormally long.
Last edited by i.breathe.in; 06-02-2008 at 03:07 PM.
fuck....example?
^^^ Ditto. I don't understand what you mean, RL


You see those a lot of times in scam ads. It's so that Craigslist can't identify the same ad posed in 100 different cities. An ad might be:
The gobblygook is different in every ad so that Craigslist can't recognize it as the same ad all over the place. It's an automatic flag from me every time I see that crap.2005 BMW M5 $3000
Great condition
Oh what great disaster the winter has brought upon us. For if it were not for fancy cookware I would starve. A vacation to the mountains is refreshing...





^^Yup just like that! Freaks me out everytime.
^^ Ah, I had no idea what you were talking about either. That is pretty creepy looking!
Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends.- George Bernard Shaw
Its really annoying when I was searching for apartments in one town and people would have every town in a 1 hour radius listed on the bottom of the add so I couldnt search just the one town.
Get a life. If Im looking for a home in Los Angeles why would I take your house in San Fran? Idiots...
I always thought that it meant the people posting it used some kind of auto-posting software to post on Craigslist. And since you can't basically repost the same ad over and over they add that little bit of weird text at the bottom to circumvent that rule.
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