In my opinion it keeps listings looking more professional. Should gender matter here?
Use of gender probably also invites bad actors that leads to a disproportionate amount of support work.
Use of gender probably also invites bad actors that leads to a disproportionate amount of support work.
if the landlord can not provide the gender of the tenant who already living there, they ended up receiving so many inquiries and calls from women from who one of the very first questions is "Is the tenant living there a girl or guy?" Then the landlord has to reply "he is a guy." and then they walk away. It's a waste of everyone's time and effort.
Isn't it common and normal for women to not want to live with men they don't know?
Craigslist just used a low effort filter to prevent a large number of potentially illegal listings from ever being posted. Saves their moderators from wasting time on idiots. Even if it wastes a bunch of the end user's time, it doesn't cost CL as much to handle complaints as it would handling legal fees.
I am curious if anyone knows how the moderators and end-user flagging works and how effective they are in a website at such a scale.
could you elaborate more how this listing might more likely to lead to bad actors?