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I asked Craigslist to do this years ago for the "for sale" sections, so that people included the number of doors on a car, the color, etc., and the kind of heat in an apartment, and so on. Such a simple thing, and would make searching so much better, and the service in general better.

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Craigslist has dedicated form fields for a lot of those things, which can then be used with search filters. The problem is that they aren't mandatory, and most users don't fill them in.

The side effect of this is that if you use the search filters, you risk missing out on a result which matches your criteria but lacks the metadata. (Craigslist doesn't have an option to search for only Blue AND Unspecified, so there's no good way to just hide the explicitly non-Blue cars.)

Allowing sellers not to fill out additional information that they easily could provides a useful signal to buyers about how well the transaction is likely to go.

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