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October 6, 2007
Negative Posts
If you're going to provide strong negative feedback about a company (which you should feel free to do), you must be logged into a user profile. Allowing negative posts by anonymous users provides zero protection against competitors flaming each other and is not fair to the service provider being commented on.
Thanks.
Mr. B
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why don't you make it so no one can post without logging in then? Guest posts are too easy to say whatever one likes and have no consequences. Everyone is guilty of it. Stop allowing guest posts.
Posted by: guest at October 6, 2007 5:51 PM
I understand your position, however - there are times when someone should be allowed to post critiques anonymously for fear of reprisals. Unfortunately, the industry of real estate and construction is not without those who would take vengenful actions... especially when it hits them in the pocketbook...ne ce pas?
Posted by: Cooperator at October 6, 2007 5:57 PM
Hmmm...but you will allow anonymous posts of praise...which may actually be being posted by the actual contractor to garner business...doesn't seem fair.
Posted by: guest at October 6, 2007 6:15 PM
99% of the user names people pick have nothing to do with their actual names so there's no fear of reprisal. We're the only one who has access to the emails of users, so, when possible, we'd like to be able to email the user and try to confirm that a very bad experience really happened...as for anonymous praise, you're right that it is also flawed, but the worst result should be that the company praised becomes one of a handful that someone checks out for himself...but, as we've been saying for a while now, anonymous comments of any kind should be heavily discounted compared to comments for users who are logged in anyway. it's an imperfect medium to start with, we're just trying to minimize its flaws.
Posted by: brownstoner at October 7, 2007 10:00 AM
Brownstoner,
Can you please extend this courtesy to brokers being trashed as well? I am so sick of professionals being trashed for sport on this website, again, possibly by competitors, and by anonymous people who have an axe to grind whose motivations or agendas cannot be discerned on here. It would make it a more credible forum if you cut this out as well. It really is very high school all this stuff about people that gets written on here. If you have had a bad experience with an actual broker I guarantee you that if you call the manager of the firm they work for and make a credible case that they've done something unethical that there will be hell to pay for that broker. Or else it's possible that the broker in charge will explain the situation to you in terms you hadn't thought of before and you will not be so upset about it after all. And if they've done something that is dishonest or illegal than they should be reported to the NY State Department of State. Or if it's a discriminatory allegation to the local, state or federal governing authority. Blogs are just not the way to work things out with brokers.
Thanks for considering this suggestion. Otherwise you are just protecting these companies and really throwing the people who work for them to the wolves for no reason.
Posted by: guest at October 7, 2007 8:46 PM
Yes I agree the gratuitous and callous trashing of real estate brokers and agents on this site -- starting with the owner of the site itself -- is irresponsible and juvenile.
Posted by: guest at October 7, 2007 10:17 PM
That poster made me cry the other day...
Proud Agent
:)
Posted by: howrealnyc at October 8, 2007 12:50 AM
Brownstoner - don't censor or contact anyone about the accuracy of their posts - you increase your liability. Keep it free-form and open - DO NOT at anytime contact any user to confirm their statements - you are increasing your responsibility and liability! DON'T
Posted by: guest at October 8, 2007 10:17 AM
There are many many reccomendations for this Alex Fradkoff as an architect on your site. If you leave them there, but censor the feedback that he is not in fact an architect, you are perpetuating the fraud. Why don't you instead check to see if he is in fact a registerd architect,and check records of all litigation against him, then post the results of that inquiry. It is a very serious thing for someone who is not a liscenced architect to pretend to be one. Architects are liscenced to protect the public safety...work not to code can cause all kinds of problems, financial, and also in terms of safety.
Posted by: guest at October 12, 2007 1:56 PM
why wont u post comment re: alex fradkoff????
Posted by: guest at November 14, 2007 4:24 PM
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