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.
From the What…”Dave, you and Biff post the most garbage here”
Uhhmmm…and what is all that crap that you post all day long into the wee hours of the morning What?
Pot, Kettle maybe?
Brownstoner, the last time you tried this it really sucked. Now you think you can do the same thing again, but achieve a different result.
Care to elaborate?
Okay great but how the heck to you get a user name. I’m looking and I can’t find it
Cobblehiller that’s exactly the point. You have a login but lurk behind a faded type guest when your true colors come out. Shame.
I will spout off whatever logged in and don’t really care what people say or think about me.
When I was using BTG for the fun of it when this whole thing initially came up for discussion BTG was probably a kinder, gentler person. LOL
I applaud you for your honesty.
“If you do that, there’s zero, zero difference between being logged in and commenting as a guest.”
THEN WHY ARE YOU DOING IT???
DO YOU SEE HOW DUMB THIS IS BY YOUR OWN ADMISSION??
I have to say that I like being anonymous because I’m somewhat ashamed/embarrassed by my addiction to brownstoner. It’s like alcoholics anonymous – some addictions you want to keep to yourself. It’s also embarrassing to become passionate about something so stupid as real estate – i.e., I hate park slope/I love park slope, renters should die/renters rule. People like to get these feelings out, but they recognize that they’re somewhat ridiculous and don’t necessarily want people to be able to track how often they feel the need to express these quintessentially new york-y (and hostile) sentiments. Nevertheless, these are the sentiments that make this blog addictive and fun to read. I actually think that if you met the guest posters they would probably the most normal people in this “community.”
Good! Thanks for doing this Mr. B!
I guess my support of registration would mean more if I could get the site to display my name as “Amy” instead of “Anonymous” 🙂
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