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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by InternetUser on Thursday March 22, 2018 @11:57PM (#16654962)
If you mean Reddit's Personals, a major difference is that the posts don't use pictures--and it's not like the posters use their first and last name as their username or anywhere in their post--so hopefully that'll keep it safe. After all, the main personals section has "148,372 readers" and right now, as of 11:57 PM Eastern Time, "1,946" are logged in. https://www.reddit.com/r/r4r/
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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by pmoriarty on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:19AM (#16655046)
"If you mean Reddit's Personals, a major difference is that the posts don't use pictures"

Craigslist did not require ads to have pictures, and there were plenty of ads that didn't have them.

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Re:Craigslist takes personals sections offline in response t... by zrobotics on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:03AM (#16654981)
Curious here, how does lack of pictures or first/last name have any bearing here? From what I understand, any of these reasons could also apply to reddit as well.
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