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11-16-12, 14:03
BP has a feature of reporting (flagging) :

-Inappropriate or Illegal Content. If this involves a threat to a child or an image of child exploitation, please email abuse@backpage.com The URL of the posting.

-Over Posted / Spam

-Wrong Category.

You'll see a link on the Right Top portion of the Posters AD which says 'Report AD'.

They way it works is not just one person reports and causes an AD to be removed. When a number of individuals report on the same AD they will usually act on it, remove that AD and possibly future ADs from that poster (say for example numerous general spam postings from other competitive sites such as AdultSe bent on moving you away from lets say BP and not giving you posters info, etc). It's also protected with Captcha ensuring robot wars are not happening (fake reporters) and that it's in some way someone real reporting this action. You can help BP by considering using this to help them to clean out the spam.

Anyway it's a start, and a good balance (aka. A number of people have to report on an abusive AD). A thought here: If a number of people ask for Additional Reporting features on BP such as Rip-Off Reports, Wrong Pictures (used for bate and switch) using the more than one person reporting system approach maybe they'll listen and we'll have an impact on the imposters and the rip-off artists as well which might help clear up some of the BP Ads.

Be Well!