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.
LOL Guest Poster…be careful what you wish for. A lot of the crazies on here go berserk when they find out you’re doing this.
It was a real circus when I slipped and posted as BTG when I was commenting to something that was directed to DIBS.
Anyway, my “fake registered login” is better than yours na na na na na. LOL
This will be fun come Monday
“Bowl of Dicks”
ROTFLMMFAO!
I’m a regular poster with a regular user name.
But look what ID I just snagged to make snarky comments? hehe
Ya know, ‘Stoner, you say that one can read people’s posts to get a sense of who they are. I complained to you, under my other username, some time ago, that most of the posts people make are in fact not saved.
Since you’re paying close attention to this thread, care to comment?
I wish Jack was here. He is probably smiling for ear to ear after reading this post
Is this a celebration for national noogies week?
Noogies for you!
Biff tell @sshat here that you “ain’t no holla back girl!”
What I’m sure you’ve been on the DL both in prison and out. I hear it never really changes once you get out of the slammer.
Admit when you don’t get it or are just wrong. Capital structure (debt & equity ownership) is just way over your head…the thick one..the one on top of your shoulders.
“Cumulative Preferred Stock is an equity ownership and it’ll get screwed. The debt that was issued was 2 yr debt at 74 basis points above Treasuries.”
No Stupid.
“You got a really thick head.”
Ahhh Dave that’s a gay remark. I don’t get down like that but you can holla at your favorite Asshat Biff…
The What (Buh Bye)
Someday this war is gonna end…
“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.”
i support the policy change, but i have a problem with this view. mr. b neither can nor should “track” people who misbehave on the site, or provide e-mail addresses of misbehavers to other users who feel aggrieved. no one should feel like registering for an account means they are being “tracked”; at worst, people who abuse their posting/commenting privileges should have their accounts shut down, period. and there is nothing “illegal” about being a jerk online. i’m not sure what bxgrl has in mind here but it sounds pernicious.