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This response assumes that joining all social networks is user choice. Unfortunately, we live in a world where it hurts consumers NOT to be on some networks. LinkedIn (which also h…

I don't think even Bilton is arguing that CL is not within their legal rights. He is just pointing out that it seems contradictory to their claimed culture of being community-drive…

You seem to be straining with "not optimal" phrasing here. It was only for mobile apps. PadMapper is a website. Non-starter.

It was in PadMapper's original blog post about the C&D letter

I don't see why not. By being a competitor that scrapes PM, they are accepting that there will be a delay in their data versus when it's available on PM. So unless their site was s…

By your own metric, so did traffic for CL, and CL is the 8th most visited site in the US, so their Alexa traffic data is probably more stable than traffic data for PadMapper. http:…

I guess I'm more sympathetic in this case because of the nature of the data: they're classified listings. The dynamic there is that landlords actually want lots of people to see th…

It'll be interesting to see if crowd-sourcing can work for PadLister here. CL's incumbency gives them a strong monopoly on the small independent landlords and subletting. Power of …

If they don't want to change their layout, why not let sites like PadMapper build on it the way that it has been doing? That way, old-fashioned users can keep using just CL and peo…

I guess people are just disappointed since Craig and Jim have often claimed to not be super focused on profit and show a disdain for general corporate greed. They always say they p…

Seems that it would be easy enough to get some voters to corroborate their claim (maybe some screenshots) rather than offer this non-proof elaboration?

At the risk of sounding naive, I still think that this kind of nonsense should be called out and not just some "norm" for online voting. The concept of consumer democracy has a lot…