Discussion on Craigslist Spam Buttons v1.3.9 | Userscripts.org

A bug has been introduced by craigslist, replied by Steevo

Steevo — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:43:57 +0000

It seems a bug has been introduced by craigslist.

Their new

"Zero LOCAL results found. Here are some from NEARBY areas..."

If you click the spam button in those, for which the link is another area, you visit the post, not flag it.
It works on the local posts but the non local posts seem to foul up the script.

Rip-off version, no javascript, replied by amonotod

amonotod — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:20:48 +0000

I was not able to get this script to work for me, so I created a derived version. It is here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/39972.

Thank you, Ryan, for your very excellent work; I hope you forgive my derivation...
amonotod

auto bury feature?, replied by blippy

blippy — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:33:49 +0000

akin to
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/32571

Not working in FF3, replied by elmo

elmo — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:52:36 +0000

Encountered a problem. Using FF 3.0.3. Your userscript is wonderful, thanks. When I click the spam link, it turns red as expected. BUT, when I view an item that should not be marked as spam, then return to the list, both the item name link and the spam link are turned red. Does this mean that every item I view (things I may be interested in purchasing) is incorrectly marked as spam?

Also, a suggestion. Our CL has a guy who has 130 posts up, mostly about 5 items repeated every day. Would it be possible to integrate a "mark all as spam" button on a search results page?

Example: I search for "37891" and the search results page returns this guys 130 ads. Instead of marking each one individually, it would be great to have a "mark all as spam" button at the top of the page.

Thanks.

Not working in FF3, replied by Ryan Stille

Ryan Stille — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:03:27 +0000

I think there was an issue with the line breaks in the file, I've updated it, and then reinstalled from here, and it seems to work fine for me in FF3.

Not working in FF3, replied by dogsbody

dogsbody — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:47:26 +0000

Hi, this isn't working in Firefox 3, I've checked on several installs. Could you pleases have a look? Let me know if I can help debug.

Archived Comments, replied by kbnguy

kbnguy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:40:20 +0000

Nope....Doesn't work here either!
FF 3.03

Archived Comments, replied by C L

C L — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:45:53 +0000

I can't get this to work on 2 of my computers both running Firefox 2 and Firefox 3. I have the monkey icon on the bottom right and it shows the script enabled. However, it does't show any spam links. What's wrong?

Archived Comments, replied by Ryan Stille

Ryan Stille — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:14:06 +0000

I just posted an update to this script. Its working *great* now, and is more user friendly as well. The [spam] links *stay* marked now even if you reload the page, so you can see what you've already marked as spam.

Thanks to Steve Sweet for his work on this.

Archived Comments, replied by Ryan Stille

Ryan Stille — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:48:30 +0000

I've updated the script to work with the new flagging system. Please try it out and let me know how it works. Special thanks to Steve Sweet for his help on this version.

I'm not 100% sure its working properly yet, so please try it out and let me know.

Archived Comments, replied by Danny motorcycle

Danny motorcycle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:09:41 +0000

i've updated the script to the new url and posted it as 1.2 so everyone doesn't have to do the hunt cut paste etc thansk for listing the change, and thanks to the author of this script. i'm trying to help too :)

Archived Comments, replied by TimU

TimU — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:50:44 +0000

The reason this script is failing is that the URL for flagging has changed. This script expects the URL to be like:
http://flag.craigslist.org/?flagCode=15&postingID=
where the correct URL is now of the form:
http://CITY.craigslist.org/flag/?flagCode=15&po...

Archived Comments, replied by TimU

TimU — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:10:31 +0000

I have tested this on FF3 and it isn't working for me. The script is loaded in Greasemonkey and enabled. I see the "spam" links before the CL listing links, and when I click on "spam" it changes to a red check mark. However, desired side effect of flagging that ad as spam is not happening. I have confirmed that using this script to flag an ad as spam is not submitting a flag "vote". Just as many additional votes are needed for the ad to be removed when voting with this script than if it wasn't used.

Archived Comments, replied by mUser

mUser — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:19:00 +0000

Do others have test results? This script doesn't seem to work for me.

I posted two test messages on Craigslist.
Daily, I flagged each message once, using spam buttons to flag one message, and Craigslist usual buttons to flag the other.

The spam button posting remains up, and the "Craigslist flagging buttons" brought the posting down in three trys

I have enabled Greasemonkey and am using FireFox 2.0.0.16.

Have others tested this script?

Archived Comments, replied by Petestuff

Petestuff — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:04:16 +0000

This ad on does not work, is there one that does?

Archived Comments, replied by tedg

tedg — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:50:55 +0000

Um. I only had to enable the craigslist spam buttons script. Duh me!

Thanks again for this script Ryan. It was your site that I had seen this before. Good work there!

I do have one question though. We get so much spam on our CL site. We've done lots of research on the whole flagging thing while having to deal with so much non stop spam.

I'm concerned that along with CL logging IP addresses to ensure that each person can only flag an ad once and to prevent flagging abuse I think CL now might also log flags by the cookie they leave on our computer when we flag an ad.

So, my concern is that when we flag an ad using craigslist spam button script with the flag buttons outside of the ad, cl doesn't leave a cookie on our computer and therefore I think they might not count that flag.

Also, I notice there is a slight difference in the flag link since CL change the look of the flag buttons. I wonder if that would make any difference in the flags being counted. Here is the link with the script for craigslist spam button link outside the ad:
http://flag.craigslist.org/?flagCode=15&posting...

This is the flag link when flagging from inside the ad:
http://yourcity.craigslist.org/flag/?flagCode=1...

Does the difference in the links make a difference in whether or not flag is counted?

Thanks again.

Archived Comments, replied by tedg

tedg — Wed, 21 May 2008 06:51:23 +0000

First I'd like to thank you Ryan. I saw a post of yours somewhere I believe sometime last year when you just finished this script. I had forgotten the name of it and could not find it since. I followed a link on craigslist to find this forum. Thank you again!

Could you help me set this up so that I can use it or give me a link for the instructions. I have no idea how to use this brilliant script. I need it to flag massive spam in my area.

I've installed Greasemonkey add-on.

I've installed Craigslist Spam Buttons v1.1 successfully.

Or can someone please tell me step by step how to use it? I cannot find how to do a search for instructions nor for this script

What do I fill in for "name", "namespace" and "desription"?

What should go into the "includes (one per line)" box? This is what's in it now: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7399#commen... I leave that there, correct? I don't add anything else in that box, correct?

What is: http://*.craigslist.*/* in the "included pages" box in the "manage user scripts" option? Do I put the search link that lists the ads I want to place the flag keys on there in place of the "http://*.craigslist.*/*"?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Archived Comments, replied by ack154

ack154 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:07:01 +0000

Thank you so much! I'm sick of seeing our small, local CL cluttered by stupid automated spam. And it was just annoying and tedious to try and flag it manually.

Archived Comments, replied by hackers3

hackers3 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:02:07 +0000

I can't seem to install it on XP Pro nor Vista Home. Any advice is appreciated.

Archived Comments, replied by libertao

libertao — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:12:22 +0000

Exactly the script I came looking for, thanks!

Archived Comments, replied by Ryan Stille

Ryan Stille — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:26:51 +0000

I've posted a new version of this script. I've moved the spam buttons to the front of the links, and I now make the request in the background for you. So instead of just a simple link taking you to the spam-flag page, now that is done in the background; you never leave the listing page.

The [spam] changes to a red checkmark when you mark it as spam.

Archived Comments, replied by Ryan Stille

Ryan Stille — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:32:36 +0000

I see craigslist has changed the look of the site a little, which has changed how my spam buttons look (they relied on a css file on the CL site).

Will try to get that updated soon. Gary your suggestions are good, I had thought of both of those while developing this script. Its just that both of those will take more than a little time to implement. :-) But I may get around to it.

Archived Comments, replied by Gary_W

Gary_W — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:44:57 +0000

One more suggestion if I may be so bold:
- After hitting the spam button, effectively auto-click on the "continue browsing" link of the "thanks for flagging" page. That page annoys me as much as the spam! I just want to mark as spam but stay in the category list. Thanks!

Archived Comments, replied by Gary_W

Gary_W — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:35:15 +0000

Thanks for your work, I love it! Suggestions:
- Put the button at the beginning of the line
- After clicking, make the link show with the "link has been clicked on" color if that is possible.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:18 +0000

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