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 you can now toss a tosser like that for remarks like that…as you said you would.”
You’re an idiot and a hypocrite, daveinbedstuy.
If you haven’t been tossed yet for trolling and sockpuppetry, what makes you think anyone will?
And you’ve shown us all how easy it is to make throw-away accounts (just like this one) to troll this board. How many sockpuppets did you have again? You’ve also shown us that one can troll freely, laugh about it, and not be banned.
Just give up the self-righteousness and quit kissing ‘stoner’s ass. It looks more ridiculous than you and Biff getting your fat-man sexy time on.
“Mr. B you can now toss a tosser like that for remarks like that…as you said you would.”
Here we are at the slippery slope (not to be confused with Park Slope). Dave, you and Biff post the most garbage here and now you are screaming for Brownstoner to do something about it.
This Blog has 1. Jumped the shark, 2. Seeing the implosion of the MREB is now trying to “Control” people thoughts.
Good luck with that and BTW Brownstoner with Dave and Biff you can crossover into a Gay Blog. They will show the finer points of not gagging while getting “Tea-bagged”
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
I don’t understand why people care. No one knows who I am or who anyone else with a log-in is. It is still anonymous. Just make a fake name and email, log-in and save your password and the only thing that will be different is your bold face type. Deadspin probably has the most commenters on the web and they require log-ins. People say crazy, dirty, stupid things without concern because it is still anonymous!
i won’t comment much more/less than i do now. although i do usually use my tag. mostly, i lurk/read.
in the case of an angry comment i might make when incensed by some of the fools on here i usually prefer to be anonymous. so no more “little miss cranky” from me! just “little polly cheerful” from here on out!
(THE WHAT: i love you. really. don’t change!)
Onward and upward, brownstoner. Most sites that I go to regularly require registration to comment. In fact, some of them require a 24-hour waiting period after registration before you can make your first comment. And these are all wildly successful sites with thriving comment sections.
1:35 name those websites!!
Buff Tosses on His Salad…please grow up. Very third gradish of you. But if you’re asking to see it you might be pleasantly surprised.
Mr. B you can now toss a tosser like that for remarks like that…as you said you would.
But 1:45, if you’re worried about that, just sign up with a random username using a random yahoo email address and don’t put your real name under the account information. If you do that, there’s zero, zero difference between being logged in and commenting as a guest.
Boom! Great decision. People only sign in as guests for extra cover when they want to be rude (or when super-lazy like moi). Will someone explain why rudeness and meanness on a lifestyle blog makes sense?
There is no “whole covert Race/Class thing,” the What. And that blather makes it so much less enjoyable to read the blog.
A good educated guess? Of someone’s PHONE NUMBER?!!!!
Surely you jest!