Any experience with Patch.com web 2.0?

I noticed one of my competitor ranking internal pages from patch.com. They are just like web 2.0 sites which allow you to post content on them.

They do have multiple groups under different city names.

I made couple of post yesterday in one of the group and noticed that they are already deleted, i wanted to know if any BHW member used them before?

They are highly moderated, need to be a member of some time to post any useful affiliate related/promotion related link on it. Mostly they are allowing government and other authority well known sites links.

First time I'm hearing about this site, I think it is similar to Craigslist.