When someone anonymously posts 4 or 5 items trashing a particular service provider (as in the case of a recent architect–or non-architect, depending on who you believe), it smells very fishy to us. As we’ve said numerous times, we’ll give the benefit of the doubt to registered users but not to anonymous commenters. Being a registered user does not mean showing your real name to the rest of the world, but it does mean having a real email address on file with us so, if we are inclined, we can send you an email to follow up on a negative post. We have no legal obligation to do so, but when particularly harsh things are said, we like to be able to try to verify. Alternatively, if you are going to damage someone’s reputation anonymously, try sending us an email beforehand with specifics to give us a reason to trust your opinion.
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When someone anonymously posts 4 or 5 items trashing a particular service provider (as in the case of a recent architect–or non-architect, depending on who you believe), it smells very fishy to us. As we’ve said numerous times, we’ll give the benefit of the doubt to registered users but not to anonymous commenters. Being a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-16491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/10\/anonymous-trash\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Anonymous Trashing of Service Providers","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/10\/anonymous-trash\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2007\/10\/anonymous-trash\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Brokers","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Brownstoner"}],"creator":["Brownstoner"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2007-10-13T15:09:00Z","datePublished":"2007-10-13T15:09:00Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:43Z"},"rendered":"