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July 11, 2006
Site Registration for Commenting
We've resisted requiring registration to the site until now because we've wanted to keep things as open as possible. Given some of the rudeness and vitriol that happens more frequently than we'd like and the recent uptick in troll activity, we have little choice but to require anyone who wants to comment to create a Typekey username. (Hopefully it should reduce the amount of spam comments that we have to waste time deleting too.) We just enabled this requirement a few minutes ago so we're not exactly sure how it's going to go from a technical standpoint. When you open the Comments of a post it should prompt you to sign in or create an identity. If you have trouble, though, please drop us an email. After you've logged at the beginning of a session, you should be recognized and not have to keep logging in every time you comment. Sorry for the inconvenience but hopefully this will result in a more respectful dialogue among those who actually have the site's, and the community's, best interests at heart.
Thanks,
Brownstoner
Comments
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Posted by: PPSer at July 11, 2006 12:59 PM
Good work...hope this helps
Posted by: TomPLG at July 11, 2006 1:03 PM
tommynotty, formerly Dave BS.
Good Luck.
Posted by: tommynotty at July 11, 2006 1:08 PM
Well done.
Posted by: crouchback at July 11, 2006 1:27 PM
Sad that registration is necessary, but the trolls were getting increasingly offensive--the registration process was certainly easy enough.
Bob Marvin
Posted by: Bob M at July 11, 2006 1:29 PM
I'm sorry too but hopefully things will get better from here on in. To everyone I apologize for having somehow drawn the ire of the troll and made it so uncomfortable.
Posted by: Bx2Bklyn at July 11, 2006 1:39 PM
Thanks for keeping it clean.
Posted by: chopperx at July 11, 2006 1:45 PM
I'm also sorry registration became inevitable and necessary, but it certainly was painless. I also am sorry to have been troll bait, and allowed him to get to me.
At least there shouldn't be any more spam from on line gambling and sexual enhancement sites. They are persistant little buggers.
Posted by: CrownHeightsProud at July 11, 2006 1:55 PM
Easy enough!
Posted by: Hal at July 11, 2006 2:15 PM
Okey-dokey
Posted by: Putnam-denizen at July 11, 2006 2:15 PM
Nice work!
Posted by: BrownBomber at July 11, 2006 2:17 PM
Excellent move. Thanks!
Posted by: Gardensgal at July 11, 2006 2:28 PM
i'm on
Posted by: misspriss at July 11, 2006 2:39 PM
That was painless :) Sorry you had to do it but Im glad you are staying around.
Posted by: Stacey Ruiz at July 11, 2006 2:44 PM
Actually, I'm glad. Some people get really nasty.
Posted by: Lisa at July 11, 2006 2:58 PM
Cool. I get confused as to which "anonymous" posters are brothel-loving-NYC-is-only-authentic-if-it's-dirty-and-dangerous people and which are I-love-my-neighborhood-dearly-except-for-the-poor-people-who-obstuct-my-views people. This should make it easier to keep track.
Posted by: Amy at July 11, 2006 2:59 PM
Ok, I'm in.
Posted by: Wallis at July 11, 2006 3:05 PM
I'm in too.
Posted by: babs at July 11, 2006 3:19 PM
registration won't stop people from being jack-holes though...
Posted by: Whitbo at July 11, 2006 3:34 PM
off we go
Posted by: ameraleed at July 11, 2006 3:34 PM
Here's to respectful dialogue!!
Posted by: Archiefina at July 11, 2006 3:39 PM
here's to the good times!
Posted by: TonyTone at July 11, 2006 4:42 PM
There seem to be two issues here:
Spam
Dissenting and obnoxious opinions
While you may have less trolling and spam with registration,
I think you may lose something intangible with TypeKey since not everyone wants to register.
TypeKey works, but I wish you would implement Akismet instead (now available for MovableType at http://akismet.com/development/), which allows registration-free commenting.
Posted by: Jay Datema at July 11, 2006 4:50 PM
this is great. i've been using this site extensively for over a year while looking for a house, and it's been incredibly helpful, except for all the trolling and flaming. keep up the good work.
Posted by: framekeeper at July 11, 2006 5:03 PM
Having been well victimized by the troll and having my display name hijacked on a number of occasions, not only to post insulting remarks, but also to post links to really disgusting photos, I can only say that I am all for registration for whomever wants to use the site. I think the arguing is often aggravating and enlightening, but I also believe that a lot of it was our troll who constantly posted using other names in order to start flame wars.
Thanks again Brownstoner-
Posted by: Bx2Bklyn at July 11, 2006 5:49 PM
I'm all for it!
Posted by: dt at July 11, 2006 5:51 PM
Okay I'm on board too.
Posted by: diadian at July 11, 2006 6:02 PM
Good call JB!
Posted by: DanInPLG at July 11, 2006 6:08 PM
Ok
Posted by: b&binb at July 11, 2006 8:19 PM
Ok
Posted by: b&binb at July 11, 2006 8:20 PM
excellent. this should keep things nice and tidy.
Posted by: ...^_^ at July 11, 2006 9:09 PM
Flatbush is in the house. However, I couldn't sign in without enabling cookies in Firefox.
What is life coming to, when I spout things like "enabling cookies in Firefox"?
Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at July 12, 2006 1:04 AM
I'm in
Posted by: VDH at July 12, 2006 6:47 AM
Set the account up last year...wondered when you might enable it. On board & ready to post.
Posted by: lostinbrooklyn at July 12, 2006 10:11 AM
good idea! but it's not working 100% yet, i've tried posting on some of the entries and the text window would not show up.
Posted by: Rising Crane at July 12, 2006 10:16 AM
Finally got the comment box to show up so I could post.
Posted by: Arsenic and Old Lace at July 12, 2006 10:42 AM
we'll check out that akismet thang...
Posted by: brownstoner at July 12, 2006 11:18 AM
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