No category search in classifieds?????

When a person picks up a newspaper to search the classified ads for a car, or a job, or any other of the sort of things for which one looks at classifeids, typically...ESPECIALLY WITH JOBS, the person looking for a job doesnt KNOW the name of the compay that is hiring, or in many cases EVEN WHAT THEY WANT TO DO FOR WORK! The classifieds section gives people options, not just contact information. Because of this, I was QUITE distraught to learn that newbs can no longer do a categorical search in classifieds... such as "Help wanted" without typing anything into th search line. The net result is that my traffic went from 5,000 to about 1000 per day despite that I PAID fora classified ad. I have bene speaking with land owners all over SL that are equally as distraught. The old classifieds system was better. This one is lame and makes it IMPOSSIBLE to grow a business effectively. When you can be kicked out for spamming, but the classifieds you run must account for every keyword on the planet, you are once again limiting my world and kicking the $&%$ out of my imaginiation. it seems every time we get a handle on how ot do something, we have to spend several days or weeks redoing/ rethinking how to do business in SL. PLEASE I BEG YOU. STOP LIMITING PEOPLE LIKE THIS. OPEN THE classified section back up to categorical non-specific searches. Otherwise there is simply NO REASON to pay for a classified ad...or to bother investing time and effort into growing a business in this particular metaverse. You folkd understand computing, but more and more I am convinced that a business conslutant would do SL WONDERS!

You and others who care will want to use our Issue Tracker, vote for:

» https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-225

The entire classified system is so messed up and gamed, I don't even bother with it any more. Speaking for myself, its a total waste of time to look for ANYTHING there.