Ya, they are cutting down a lot, or just making it harder to post. However, I'm ok with that as lots of scam artists were using it to send fake cashiers checks. I was a potential victim myself before I figured it out.
It reduces the amount of spam, many marketers have gone way too far and flooded the boards with spam topics. As a result it kind of ruined it for legitimate marketers.
For craigslist, Phone verifs seem good.. If not, there site is so big, its just a matter of time before it becomes over-run with junk... Hopefully they maintain the balance, for such a super large website, they do a great job..They have hard shoes to fill..
So if I am sending 10 ads a day with 2 differnet ads is it ok to get phone verified? I have run into this problem as well.