10 Reasons to Love Cincinnati Craigslist Right Now

I have been using craigslist for several years, and it’s finally starting to catch on in greater Cincinnati. Craigslist is a comprehensive community network with free classifieds including notices for jobs, housing and personals.

Cincinnati craiglist still has a long way to go to become as useful as its east and west coast counterparts, but lately it’s improving.

10 reasons why I am loving cincinnati craigslist right now:

1. Because when someone moving from Chicago posted asking about good neighborhoods in Cincinnati, the responses ranged from “Avondale” to “stay where you are.”
2. Porn under the guise of singles ads.
3. Lame attempts to follow up with people after they were too shy to talk to them in person in craigslist “missed encounters.” Sometimes these are just (even more) lame attempts to disguise singles ads (“To the beautiful blonde I saw downtown today…”). Sometimes they are the real deal, as when a young woman tracked down her child’s father- he never knew he had a baby.
4. “Rants” that some people take to the excess, writing for hours in that age-old battle of on-line wits. Very few seem marked as winners. Except maybe the fed-up posters: “We all smoke. We all speed. Who cares?”
5. I have picked up a lot of freelance work through craigslist. In addition, headhunters and recruiters from the world’s best companies are out there looking through craigslist. I’ve been contacted by AOL, PayPal and CNET, to name a few.
6. best-of-craigslist posts are nominated by craigslist readers. Some of the best-of-craigslist postings right now include a rant against craigslist women’s singles ads called Maddening Phrases from w4m (although he does exactly what he purports to dislike) and Will pay to catch your cold!
7. Cincinnati homes listed as “vacation rentals.”
8. The Barter section has items listed that the owners will often trade for “anything.”
9. The craigslist forums, especially haiku, etiquette and kink. Recent posting from kink: “Where do kinky bloggers go?” Response: “In my lungs and sometimes up my…”
10. And of course, the “free” section on craigslist. I haven’t found my favorite free item yet, but it’s always fun to troll this section.
    
    

I am not crazy about the prostitutes posting their wares and their rates on-line in the erotic services area, but that’s vice’s problem.

Craigslist is currently looking for “missed encounters” success stories for publication.