5 reasons why Hyde Parkers need a marketplace.
1. Facebook Group require... you have to Login to FB and the people that joined groups like "Hyde Park Buy/Trade/Sell" had to be moderated just as much as anywhere else. And who is to Moderate? Not Jay.
2. Craigslist is just as problematic.
3. The HP Herald doesn't have an online classified section.
4. People will start trying to post Want Ads, stuff for sale and the like here.
5. I used the UC marketplace for everything. Finding gigs, buying and selling stuff, posting rental ads for my job,posting Help Wanted ads for my tours, etc.
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Thanks Marilyn. You remind me that it was also useful for Finding legit UofC and Hyde Park people to provide services like home/pet sitting, tutoring for kids, move some boxes ...the type of services you don't want to download an app for. I guess it was a good run while it lasted!
From: Sid Colton <s2...@uchicago.edu>
Subject: I will try ...
To: Gregory Fairbanks <g.s.fai...@gmail.com> Cc: Mitch
Marks <mma...@pobox.com> |
I believe you may need a secure cnetid, which is only given to registered students and employees, not just a uchicago.edu email. I just tried accessing the Marketplace with my uchicago.edu email and was sent to a login site where I was asked for my cnetid. I entered my uchicago email and my alumni password and was denied access. But I went through the University website and the approach may be different via Facebook.
I get the sense that UC is raising more security barriers around its sites. The access to Marketplace may be one of the symptoms of these changes.
Mary
In order for us to keep the Marketplace website, the University has required that access be limited to students only. I understand that a great benefit of the Marketplace service in the past was that it fostered contact between students, faculty, staff, and community members. For these purposes, we encourage the use of Craigslist, this Facebook group, and other platforms. For current students, Marketplace will return to functionality soon--we will also post a notice on the website with updates.
The site had to be taken down temporarily to deal with illegal postings. Before we were allowed to relaunch Marketplace, the University told us that we would have to limit access to the site and require CNET login. The University also mandated stricter moderation. Their reasoning for requiring these changes seems to be that they do not want Marketplace to be a service beyond the University.
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