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May 28, 2008
Repeated break-ins & graffiti
A month ago or thereabouts someone was walking into my house every minute or so and spraying long, nonsense, diatribes all over my walls. It totally ruined my place. People said I should do something about it but then it stopped and I figured, "okay, no need to follow their advice". Now it's started to happen all over again. Should I have listened to peoples' ideas for preventing this? Should I do something about it now? By the way, I depend on my place for my livelihood and it was just written up in a prominent magazine.
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what?
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 1:54 PM
johnife, have you lost it?
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 2:00 PM
This is so weird; I thought johnife was being oddly cranky and mean last week, and now this. We're here for you, are you ok?!
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 2:02 PM
A call to action based on a certain disgruntled-by-all-the-attention-the-other- prominent-crackpot-around-these-parts-just-received-in-magazine-write-up crackpot's posting habits of the past 72 or so hours, I believe. Keep up, people. Keep up.
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 2:03 PM
yeah, i catch your drift, ife.
but it's brownstoner's site, so it's his decision/responsibility to fix the "bugs" and keep the a**holes at bay.
success means more envy and detractors, and more people with a chip on their shoulder for reasons that probably stem from deep insecurity and a lack of attention.
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 2:04 PM
This site has been rendered virtually unusable
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 2:07 PM
Not really, 2:07. It's just annoying, as is this person's intent. If you stop reading and posting and brownstoner stops going ahead with business as usual, this person will view that as a great big victory in his or her tiny little life.
Of course, brownstoner could also opt to pay attention to the prevailing attitude around here these past few days that wading through this crap is tedious and, as the web is a vast and interesting place, there are likely other sites his regular users might turn to unless and until he implements appropriate measures to nip this crap in the bud. Thus fewer page views, thus less ad revenue, and perhaps less interest in his major pet project of the moment, the Brooklyn Flea.
So, you know, make of that what you will, Mr. B.
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 2:15 PM
how about putting a lock on your door or making them login when they arrive
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at May 28, 2008 2:22 PM
2:15 you are wrong. The long posts hang up my computer making the site useless. Not annoying. Unusable.
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 2:58 PM
i don't want to log in
this was tried already and failed
there are a number of solutions
making people log in is the wrong solution
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 3:01 PM
requiring log ins would ruin this website.
i don't know what the alternative is, but that isn't it.
it would become a club for a few people and mr. b needs massive amounts of hits, which is only made possible by anonymous posting...
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 3:05 PM
the posts by the people who log in are the most useless most annoying posts in my opinion
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 3:10 PM
i don't really understand the problem that people have with logins...not the moral/personal/paranoid/neurotic issues but the technical ones. I use a Mac and a PC and signing in requires only a few more keystrokes than signing in as a guest when I first enter the site. The signin is then there until i log off.
What's the big deal???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at May 28, 2008 3:13 PM
I would prefer log-ins if only because it would make following the back-and-forth of animated discussions a damned sight easier, but I think making them mandatory would be kinda like using a mallet to kill a fly. From what I understand there are several other methods of keeping out saboteurs, at least beyond the first posting, that would not impact on site hits. You think Brownstoner is the only site that gets visited by these kind of nutters? The fact that they're unable to wreak havoc on sites without registration requirements like, for instance, Curbed, suggests to me that there's a solution out there already. I doubt there's a need to reinvent the wheel, just a need to find a bike mechanic.
Posted by: johnife at May 28, 2008 3:34 PM
the only good thing about logging in is so that i can see what posts dave and biff make, so i can skip them more easily.
i agree that 99% of bold logged in posters are way more annoying than the guests.
dave and biff each post over 100 comments a day. it's so pathetic and makes people numb to anything they say, because it's the same nonsense every time.
and yes, i'm on topic here. as much as any bold face type poster is...
screw you, dave
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 3:34 PM
3:34...Apparently you don't skip them if you're commenting on my post
screw you numb nuts
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at May 28, 2008 3:39 PM
screw you numb nuts?
the discourse on this site could be more civil
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 3:58 PM
I post, usually to offer information or advice based on my experiences, though very occasionally I can be just a tad sarcastic (though someone once replied that they loved me for one of them, so the comments must be apprecited by someone or someones). And no way do I want to create a login - I wouldn't post if I had to.
This is why: I see the login thing as creating an identity of sorts, maybe the actual poster's personality, but sometimes (it sure seems) some sort of made-up personality made just for posting on this site (or this and other sites.)
I find the identities annoying - I want to read (and post) information that stands on its own and isn't connected to a personality, a name, or that person's previous history of posts. (Sure, there are some guest posters who are annoying, but it is easy to disregard them.) I like information, analysis, and opinion for its own sake, not based on the who the poster is (or is pretending to be - which is all you can really say for an anonymous login anyway.)
I agree that with required logins the site would turn into a converstion between a few boring people (as other websites with comments I read have) and lose whatever usefullnes the comments and forum sections currently have.
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 4:18 PM
dave in bed stuy - very rude
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 5:15 PM
5:15...no more rude than the guy who used the same towards me at 3:34
glad to have new police on board though!!!
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at May 28, 2008 5:23 PM
Even though I always log in, I don't think that requiring registration is the answer. Perhaps a combination of filters and a quick finger on the delete button would be enough.
Posted by: Bob Marvin at May 28, 2008 5:49 PM
I agree Bob...although its fun to berated the lazy faded grey type guests whether anyone logs in or not is not the issue of controlling the spam. That said, I don't understand why people say they are unable to login or have trouble doing so.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at May 28, 2008 6:51 PM
dave are you six years old. you blame your inability to express yourself civilly upon someone else? take responsibility for your own actions and for dragging this board through the gutter.
Posted by: guest at May 28, 2008 7:27 PM
He's back, by the way. Bunch of nonsense posted a little after 8:00pm.
Posted by: johnife at May 28, 2008 8:23 PM
"the posts by the people who log in are the most useless most annoying posts in my opinion"
That's right - For the most part these are the people who want attention, have something to say about everything, and want YOU to know who they are. They are tiresome but they keep it within the bounds of reasonable behavior.
A lot of the rest of us are killing time, are often put off the sheer mean-spiritidness of most of the anonymous posters. Sometimes we post.
A few are pedantic morons like the What, the faded type spammer, the 3,000 word spammer.
Take it or leave it.
Posted by: guest at May 29, 2008 8:34 AM
FWIW, I tried creating a login weeks ago and never received the welcome e-mail with the password.
Posted by: guest at May 29, 2008 10:04 AM
"I find the identities annoying - I want to read (and post) information that stands on its own and isn't connected to a personality, a name, or that person's previous history of posts....I like information, analysis, and opinion for its own sake, not based on the who the poster is (or is pretending to be - which is all you can really say for an anonymous login anyway.) "
EXACTLY. I feel the same way. Especially about those silly conversations between Dave and Biff. I just skip over those. Other blogs have figured all this out without logins, so figure it out here.
Posted by: guest at May 29, 2008 2:52 PM
Dave, get a job.
Posted by: guest at May 29, 2008 9:28 PM
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