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.
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?
no…i couldn’t care less.
although the first time i heard the term BOCOCA it made me laugh so hard i cried and pee’d in my pants….guess you had to be t/here…for 40 years…to get it.
2:30 of course you’re right…”Freedom is The Right To Hate”
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.
cobblehiller-maybe it is a little 1984-ish but looking back I haven’t noticed Mr. B caring about people having extremely er..lively discussions but he also doesn’t want stuff to get out of hand as it has in the past with one troll posting links to horrific pictures that people inadvertently looked at thinking they were about real estate. I doubt he has the time or the wherewithal to read every single post but it someone complains, he can block the poster if need be. Lots of blogs have a link for reporting offensive posts and then it’s up to the webmaster.
FYI- for those posters who love harassing other posters, not only is it illegal anyway, bu Mr. B will be able to use your email address- junk email or no- to track you. so those of you who want to sling mud and insults, you can do that to your hearts content but this time the people you harass can actually fight back.
“CHP was inadvertently outed by someone in the community who foolishly posted info on several people for a perfectly legitimate event -unfortunately not taking into account the malicious brownstoner trolls.”
I’m sure you wouldn’t post this unless you’re in a position to prove it. So, please, proceed…
“Gerbil Jamming”. Fake What, what main-stream media source did you use for that beauty?
“…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.”
It’s the 21st century. We learned to be tolerant of other people’s intolerance.
CHP was inadvertently outed by someone in the community who foolishly posted info on several people for a perfectly legitimate event -unfortunately not taking into account the malicious brownstoner trolls. It had nothing to do with the registration process but be aware you can put information in the registration page that will be public unless you make sure to keep it private in the settings.
What registration is doing is protecting people from spammers and trolls who have no compunctions about being nasty, pornographic or evil. It gives Mr. B a way to verify someone. And delete or block them. It won’t be perfect but it’s better than this.
And for those of you who think registering will out you to your bosses- it will no more so than guest posting. Companies can easily track where you’ve been surfing on any company computer, so posting anonymously isn’t protecting you from big brother in any way.
I’ll meet you guys over here:
http://www.curbed.com/