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.
Barf Champion The Salad Tosser…you have posted 5 comments since you registered today. EACH ONE OF THEM had a derogatory gay remark.
Is there a pattern here? Are you trying to “come out.” Are you a “pitcher” or a “catcher?”
To all others I apologize for the guest ALL CAPS style of posting.
Mr. B,
While I applaud your decision to eliminate the obviously more annoying elements on this website, I want to take this final opportunity to call everybody I don’t like an ASSHAT, DOUCHEBAG, FUCKTARD!!!!
That is all.
-guest
Buff the Salad Tosser….I never insulted them I just implied that they too were probably closet homosexuals. Look up the psychiatric research on homophobes.
You really look like an idiot when you try to argue something logically.
Its illegal to harass other posters?
care to point to NYS Penal Law, any particular section?
What…you misunderstand again…get a textbook and figure out the differences between debt, preferred stock, cumulative preferred stock, etc, etc etc.
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.
You got a really thick head.
2:28 (Bxgrl) says:
“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.”
so The What’s comments (registered user) in this very thread about:
not choking while teabagging
gerbil jamming
fatman sex
Are considered acceptable as a registered user?
Oh yeah, the scantily clad contortionist typist! I almost forgot. Now THAT was one great thread!
Let’s see. Today is Thursday and an bunch of people are predicting what will happen … starting Monday. Is there, like, a prize or something for getting it right? I mean, why not just wait until next week and the rest of the summer to find out? Nahhhh, where’s the fun in that?
“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.”
I think you just used the tactic of inferring someone is gay as an insult! LOL. It’s only homophobic when other people do it, eh daveinbedstuy?
Like I said before: idiot and a hypocrite.