Freecycle - Rochester Wiki

Website

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RochesterNY_Freecycle/

Freecycle/Rochester is a mailing list where people post about things they want to give away. It's like the Craigslist 'forsale' section except everything is offered at no cost. It is run as a Yahoo! group (RochesterNY_Freecycle Group) and although the "official" Freecycle website indicates the lists should permit anyone to post without moderator approval (except, optionally, for new users), this one requires moderator approval of every message posted.

Other alternatives include:

Livejournal community, freecycleroch, although it is currently much less active than the Yahoo group.
On Rochester's Craigslist.

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2005-06-25 06:14:43 I find a lot of the rules to be draconian as well. The whole notion of it being moderated doesn't seem to help it be useful or structured, it just makes for ornery moderators who have to comb through thousands of messages a day. —JasonOlshefsky

2005-06-25 10:56:16 Craigslist works better than freecycle ever does/did —FarMcKon

2005-07-13 09:57:10 i use freecycle ocassionally... it could definitely be implemented better, perhaps even adding a similar section here on the wiki? —AnthonyRudgick

2005-07-15 13:54:07 How would a wiki freecycle be better than Craigslist? —TobinFricke

2006-05-09 10:51:07 A wiki Freecycle would probably suck, actually, unless old items would automatically expire, making it essentially an equivalent substitute for a subset of what Craigslist offers. —JasonOlshefsky

2006-05-09 15:48:41 Thank you Jason for helping re-word this page. It sounds much more complete than my previous edit. —AndrewSerrano

2007-07-05 10:34:12 Actually the comment above about every message being approved by moderator is false, new members are moderated, and people that cause issues by being greedy ,. or breaking the rules are returned to moderation. The majority of Freecycles 5300 people are not moderated. With approx 1000 messages a week, the moderator wouldnt have a life if everyone was moderated. How do i know this? I am one of the co owners —DanjenZarp

2007-07-06 10:05:26 2x I have had no shows to take what is offered, other than that, I have had good luck with rochester freecycling. —MrPhil

2008-11-03 15:20:02 Every post on RochesterNY_Freecycle is not moderated! New members are moderated and people who just can't get it of how to post correct so we can keep a orderly site for our members. The site has changed in the past year so try it! Hil Co Owner RochesterNY_Freecycle —clouse201