Sally works at Vivastreet - Part 1
As some of you know, I’ve been hired by Vivastreet a few months ago to be their new moderator. The opportunity came from Gumtree, and I had to jump on it. I was about to accept a waitress job in South Kensington when I saw the ad for the job. I knew Vivastreet.com was a website for local classifieds ads. I knew it was pretty huge as an internet company. But I had no idea what I was getting into…
First of all I knew there were crazy people on earth. I knew there were sadness in this world… But I had no idea you could communicate it through a simply little ad.
Let me explain. Vivastreet is a website where everyone, absolutely everyone can post an ad. There are different categories like used cars sales, job vacancies or property for sale. But you also have some naughty categories like adult dating and erotic massages and escort. there are millions of people who connect every month to post or look for an ad. And it’s my goal as a little over-educated moderator to make sure all the ads are decent and in the right place. That sounds easy but it’s not. Why ? Because I have hundreds and hundreds of ads to read, accept or delete each day, and sometimes when I run out of coffee, I kind of let it go and make mistakes like :
1 - Allowing an ad in which someone wants to be fucked by a dog and suck his owner’s c**** at the same time. You really gotta be tired to let go this one,.. (10 shots of tequila the night before will do).
2 - Allowing an ad in which a 60 year old man wants to date a girl between 14-18. Yeah, child molestar still exist and don’t hide, sad but true.
3- Allowing an ad in which someone is selling his(her) kidney in the buy and sell category. (with a great deal of money : hey ! my kidney is on sale ! I make you 20% off, because I do drink a lot of Vodka). Pathetic….
4- Allowing an ad in which a girl is looking for an “Au Pair” job. Nothing weird… except the fact that she sent this picture… Which gives a new meaning to au “Pair” de fesses.
5 - Allowing an ad in which a man sells his wife
6 - Allowing an ad in which a woman sells her husband
7 - Allowing an ad in which a man offers for a rent a 100m2 appartement in central Paris for 10 euros/month if you agree to get laid with him, his father and the cat, and maybe the plants would like too…
And now my dear friends to close this post with a BANG ! Here is the worst ad ever read in the dating section. (for french speakers only). Enjoy the laugh…
Speechless.
It’s so horrible and sad!!
My anti-spam word was Miranda Hobbs LOL no comment!!
Bisous
Hi Sally! Congratulations for your job! It seems to be original! Bonne chance pour la suite, ton blog version française un peu acide me manque! Bonne journée, bises.
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hum… You seem have a LOT of fun Sally, good work ! ^^
Finally you find a job I’m really happy for you, congrats!
I think like Lily your french version was great, I missed a lot your funny and so true articles.
HUGE ! You don’t have time to be bored. So many ad… So little time to read them all ! Thank you for this top 7
and congratulations for your job
who the f… is peggy olsen ??? loool
happy to read your news again !:!!!! i knew vivastreet too , that’s a website where you could find escort girls , friends , cars , flats , pets , stepfathers , and many other things !!!! i don’t remember when you leave france exactly but for the first birthday of your departure to make a big big big story for us , your london diary !!!!
we wanna share with you your vision of life london and UK like you did before in the french version !!!!!
think about it , i know you can’t spent too much time on the web but think about it
Unbelievable!! So pathetic and so funny!!!!lol!
Wouah! People are crazy but it’s not new unfortunately!)
I miss your French blog miss Sally! ^_^ ut I’m happy for your new job (and a job of waitress in South Ken wouldn’t be so funny! (ohh I miss London so much!) Good luck, and I wait for another post my dear!
Kisses
HI Sally! Congrats for your job at Vivastret. CLassifieds business is a very interresting one.
I’ve just lauched a similar clasifieds service for african people: http://africavenue.com and the biggest issues are scams ads (especially from nigeria and cote d’ivoire). We don’t have any moderator yet. Our system is just based on a script who automatically remove ads with certains words.
ouais les scams c’est un fléau pour vivastreet aussi, et si quelque chose devait faire couler le site ce serait ca
meme en embauchant des modérateurs il y en aura tjrs.
ils viennent de chine mais surtout de cote d’ivoire et du Nigéria pour nous aussi et on est basé aux UK.
aucun systéme n’est assez parfait infaillible pour en venir a bout…
First of all, let me say I to you, I’m new at blogging and I just luv yours. And congrats for your job, it must be a great/weird experience cause WOW thats so disgusting!
Acutally I’ve done a job that seemed similar at the CIC (but not that TRASH) I had to accept or refuse people with strange topic of web site cause they wanted to put a paypal in there..
First of all, let me say HI to you, I’m new at blogging and I just luv yours. And congrats for your job, it must be a great/weird experience cause WOW thats so disgusting!
Acutally I’ve done a job that seemed similar at the CIC (but not that TRASH) I had to accept or refuse people with strange topic of web site cause they wanted to put a paypal in there..