If you have tried posting on Craigslist few months ago, you’d notice that there was indeed no fuss in getting your post available to all Craigslist visitors. It’s very easy to post on Craigslist and what’s more interesting is that it’s free.
Recently, Craigslist had made some changes and if you had posted on Craigslist recently you’d notice what kind of changes they did to revise their security model. Well, Craigslist is a free site and when it’s free, some people would end up abusing it. Now, Craigslist made it a little bit more complicated to post and that’s because of CAPTCHA. You have to sign up for a free account on Craigslist and this is pretty new as you don’t need to sign up for anything on Craigslist before. Then you have to type in the 2-word CAPTCHA upon signing up for an account.
Then, another CAPTCHA is required if you want to post an ad. It’s a phone verification kind where you’d verify your account through phone as the code is received only by telephone. Then another CAPTCHA is still required before you can successfully post your ad. By doing so, Craigslist prevents spammers from posting ads on their site and also to prevent malicious posters from posting on Craigslist.
what does captcha mean?
Here’s a definition for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA