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…
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.
dave in bed stuy – very rude
right on, 4:18.
you are exactly correct.
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.
screw you numb nuts?
the discourse on this site could be more civil
3:34…Apparently you don’t skip them if you’re commenting on my post
screw you numb nuts
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
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.
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???
the posts by the people who log in are the most useless most annoying posts in my opinion