Moving Forward
If you’re a troll or a spammer, you better try to get your last licks in now, because by Monday, the guest commenting function will be a thing of the past on Brownstoner. If you haven’t signed up for a user account yet, please try to do so in the next couple of days. (If…
If you’re a troll or a spammer, you better try to get your last licks in now, because by Monday, the guest commenting function will be a thing of the past on Brownstoner. If you haven’t signed up for a user account yet, please try to do so in the next couple of days. (If you don’t receive your verification email within a couple of minutes, just email us and we’ll verify you by hand.) If you already have a user account and voted for the elimination of guest commenting, please put your money where your mouth is and make an effort to get involved in discussions. Another to remember is that you are still anonymous when you comment with a username: Just pick a silly name like Cobble Hill Guy and stick with it; no other readers will be able to see your email address or know who you really are. Our hope and expectation is that the improved quality of the threads—along with our ability to boot anyone who steps out of bounds—will more than make up for any decline in the quantity of comments.
We know that there are a lot of long-time readers out there who’ve gradually been moving to the sidelines of the discussions as they’ve grown nastier and more inane, and hopefully they will take this as an opportunity to re-engage and take the sense of community back to its roots where we can have meaningful, useful discussions about real estate, architecture and the many issues that confront the borough and its neighborhoods as the inevitable wheels of change continue to turn.
There are going to be a number of new features coming to the site in the next few months, the use of which will also be enhanced by having a user account. The first of these, launching next week, involves a group effort at building a comprehensive restaurant guide for the borough. (Having a username is particularly useful because other readers can come to trust, or distrust, you opinions about restaurants.) Other features down the pipe include map-based mobile access of the Brownstoner archives, neighborhood emails and some new service-oriented improvements in the architect and contractor spaces.
How about allowing people to create a user name without having to give your e-mail? If you just commenters to be able to follow up comments from a certain reader. The annoying part about registering is having to create a name.. password.. get the e-mail for verification.. and then confirm your account name from some link that the e-mail sends you. Sometimes you just wanna say something and thats it.
I will admit I am lazy at signing up for sites because as it is.. I already have about 30 different accounts on a bunch of sites. Registering to a blog seems kind of pointless when in reality what draws me to this site.. is to read the snark. As much as it has irritated me to read things here because I feel people can be close minded and trash something from one experience… I just keep checking. So why register?..
Commenting as a guest allows you to quickly give your say while you are all riled up from reading something that outraged you.. or you comment because you feel compelled to have your words be digest by readers. Sometimes its good.. sometimes its bad. But… in the overall.. doing away with guests is just BS.
Hey.. how about going to Yahoo and doing some deal with them and let people log in using their yahoo names.. wouldn’t that be a great way to get even more revenue Mr B. People will log on Yahoo.. search random things there.. they see a link to brownstoner on the top and CLICK.. you will increase your readers by the herds.. but of course.. this is crazy.. what was I thinking..
I’ll miss logging in as a guest to say something.. Maybe I’ll register.. maybe I won’t.. but as it stands.. right now.. I
2:50 seems to be one of the few that understands how ridiculous the whole thing really is. This is internet sit-com people.
Even Mr. B can’t help it sometimes like when he threw in that scantily clad contortionist’s pic!!!
That said, The Forum and a lot of the posts here are interesting, useful and informative. That can’t change. I started on here because I really wanted to learn things about Brooklyn before I moved here. Its gone way beyond that now!! LOL
“What…you were wrong yesterday on the interest rate for the Fannie Mae debt issue and you weren’t man enough to admit it after I pointed it out. You are just here for my amusement.”
No Home skillet, you didn’t read my reply. But just in case here ya go… Careful this is a PDF file…
http://www.fanniemae.com/ir/pdf/resources/preferred/PreferredStockSeries2008_1.pdf;jsessionid=LXTCWH1XO3BBTJ2FECISFGI
8.75% Non-Cumulative Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, Series 2008-1
This Offering Circular relates to the offer of 45,000,000 shares of 8.75% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock.
You see Retard if you would have taken the time to READ it, you would’ve understand where I was coming from..
” couldn’t care less whether you think I’m gay or straight, but it’s unfortunate in this day and age that you resort to statements that display a clear and intense hostility to a specific group.”
Awwww Biff, is your throng on too tight? Or maybe Dave didn’t give a reach around last night? Don’t worry just put some ice on it..
“Mr. B, if you’re serious about booting anyone who steps out of bounds and trying to reduce the nastiness, why don’t you get and early start and boot those with new IDs who are attacking homosexuals?”
See I told ya.. Biff = Wank Wank!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
“you can do that to your hearts content but this time the people you harass can actually fight back.”
So, using entirely made-up names or simply random strings of characters, someone creates a throwaway email address on hotmail and uses it to register on Brownstoner.
This gives you the ability to fight back how?
It’s no big deal Biff. They’ve always been around and always will. They’ll come back registered under another email address.
And if I were spending a lot of time in gay bars, porn shops and places like the Gaiety Theatre I’m sure I’d see them there. They think their wives, girlfriends and co-workers don’t know but they always do.
Mr. B, X said something naughty and I think you should boot him.
No, Mr. B, Y hurt my feewings, so you should ban him!
But Mr. B, I contribute so many good posts to this blog! You should really ban the people *I* tell you to ban.
etc. etc. etc. This is shaping up real well.
Yes, I didn’t even realize it, but I’m one of those long-time-ish (3 years) readers who started sitting on the sidelines after some very nasty responses to my posts. Very much a turn-off, even though I still read the site.
Hating isn’t a right. It’s a privilege. Unfortunately, some of us take it for granted.
i beg you not to include me in the mud-slinging and insulting, bxgril, thank you. that’s not what i’m about.