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…
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
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.
Actually, I’m glad. Some people get really nasty.
That was painless 🙂 Sorry you had to do it but Im glad you are staying around.
i’m on
Excellent move. Thanks!
Nice work!
Okey-dokey
Easy enough!
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.