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Could someone elaborate on this?

> Craigslist C&D’d us (they didn’t want our users linking to their Ridejoy ride offers or requests)

If I understand it correctly, CL sent C&D to ridejoy because someone was posting ridejoy urls on CL? That's absurd if that's the case.. so how was it?

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We allowed our users to cross-post to CL if they chose to (it was opt-in, not the default, and they had to sign into CL themselves to do so... so not automatic) and many people did. If they cross-posted to CL, there was all the basic logistical info in the post, plus a small link to their ride on Ridejoy at the bottom of the post (which the user could remove).

Ridejoy cross-posted adverts to Craigslist automatically.

Quite a few compete-with-craigslist companies seem to post to or scrape craigslist as part of their effort to capture CL's userbase - padmapper for instance. Craigslist doesn't seem to like this.

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