[cldrope]

Craigslist does not allow scraping. Beg for help and for support for breaking their rules elsewhere. This is Hacker News, not "help me retain a business model after I broke rules" central.

You could alternatively hire people to spam them with nice requests to reconsider.

[wpietri]

Wait, what? If anybody should appreciate breaking the rules in order to create something useful, it's hackers.

[cldrope]

I fully agree, but unfortunately us hacker-kind are no longer the norm nor the majority here. It's all startups and tons of people with business degrees.

Technical papers get downvotes while people's blog posts about how to hire/fire people get upvoted.