[mattmanser]

I totally disagree.

If they don't see who's posting and what's being posted, how can they know if they're doing a good job. How can they spot the opportunity and pivot?

I know you don't mean it this way, but in a way you are saying hide from the customers and carry on coding.

Manually checking every post could be an excellent way of figuring out who's using the site and what the common frustrations are.

If they were getting 100 listings a day it would be a different matter, but I doubt they will be getting that many.

[kls]

Just because they dont manage every post does not mean they cannot check post to see the nature of their business intelligence. Just as PG does not read ever one of the articles and lets the user flag articles that are spam so can they use individuals to weed through the crap, by the nature of the job the person will be getting rid of the crap and only leaving legitimate posts, there is no value in weeding through the crap themselves unless they are going to pivot into a link spam software company. You are mixing the idea of the job of eliminating spam with business insight, the two are not linked and I still contend that wading through spam for a developer or owner is an absolute waste of resources for a start-up. Especially when a hire could do it for a 3rd of a developers costs.