Just keep flagging them as 'prohibited/terms of use'. As more people start using CL in earnest, the SNR will go up. It seems like the spammers are the first to arrive in new CL cities (try searching for a used car in Guam!), while in cities where CL has more of a foothold (here in SF being the prime example) flagging knocks such spam down quickly.
Also search only for listings with realistic price ranges (there is no free lunch), and
OK, but if there's any chance that the hot-patch won't go smoothly, then you're probably going to want to do the update only against 10% of the machines at once (so that you can handle it if they all barf). Which would put you back to square 1...
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Just keep flagging them as 'prohibited/terms of use'. As more people start using CL in earnest, the SNR will go up. It seems like the spammers are the first to arrive in new CL cities (try searching for a used car in Guam!), while in cities where CL has more of a foothold (here in SF being the prime example) flagging knocks such spam down quickly. Also search only for listings with realistic price ranges (there is no free lunch), and
OK, but if there's any chance that the hot-patch won't go smoothly, then you're probably going to want to do the update only against 10% of the machines at once (so that you can handle it if they all barf). Which would put you back to square 1...