Registration Problems?
Just a reminder that if you tried to register for a Brownstoner user profile in recent weeks but never got your confirmation email, just shoot an email to brownstoner@brownstoner.com and include the user name you picked. We’ll get you up and running. Mr. B
Just a reminder that if you tried to register for a Brownstoner user profile in recent weeks but never got your confirmation email, just shoot an email to brownstoner@brownstoner.com and include the user name you picked. We’ll get you up and running.
Mr. B
Guest at 10:56, go fuck yourself.
The only real reason to have a user name is to keep track of a conversation, or to have an identity that people can get to “know”. When a topic is really flowing, not when some idiot keeps writing nonsense of any kind, it gets confusing to read guest upon guest, or someone saying “I’m guest 9:36, 11:16 and 12:07, and I say this….”
Other than that, I agree that registering does NOT mean exclusivity. All you have to do is register with someone else’s name, put a space or a comma somewhere in there, and the system sees it as a different name. A reader won’t notice. Normal, sane people are not going to bother to do this, but that certainly doesn’t matter to those who do. This site seems to draw some real wackos at times.
Having been the target of above name stealing wackos, I am glad there is a choice.
Loon is right. Only a nutcase would be so obsessed with having a ‘username’. Heaven help us.
There’s a real psychopath who likes to post here isn’t there? Probably just one loon.
Get a life loon. it starts with a job, you know, where somebody pays you money to do something worthwhile. Pretty strange huh?
“I do enjoy how you and 3:21 (unless you’re one and the same, but how would I know since you are generic guests?”
How would you know if we weren’t generic guests?
Answer: You wouldn’t.
“8:05, okay, change “have control” to “have more control.” And change “take (a little?) more responsibility” to “creates the opportunity for more responsibility.”‘
Umm, no, I won’t make any of these changes. A username doesn’t give you any more control than you would have otherwise…at all. For that matter, if you crave your precious username so much, you can type it in at the bottom of your posts. But that’s not enough is it? You need your ‘special’ username field and no doubt your shiny gold stars placed delicately beside your ‘username’ by Mr. B. Grow up.
8:05, okay, change “have control” to “have more control.” And change “take (a little?) more responsibility” to “creates the opportunity for more responsibility.” I can drive responsibly or I can drive like an asshole … it’s entirely up to me everytime I get behind the wheel.
I don’t see how having a name and a profile and anything else makes anybody “tow the Brownstoner line.” When you say that you “think it’s awfully juvenile,” it seems to me like you are reacting to something else, but perhaps I am still not understanding you.
I do enjoy how you and 3:21 (unless you’re one and the same, but how would I know since you are generic guests?) refer to me by the time I posted, as if I hadn’t chosen to post with a name. It’s charming in it’s consistency with your take(s) on the issue.
Cunts are for fucking after which, sometimes, they are also for birthing. The words can make some people angry, but probably not many of the (mostly, I presume) urban adults who read Brownstoner. Part of what makes those three posts so easy to ignore, if I wasn’t using them to make a point, is because they were made by nobody.
And, finally, I think Starbucks does suck, but evidently lots of other people don’t.
“3:36, this is how I look at the issue of registration:(1) It allows regular posters to have control over what appears over their name.”
Ummm, actually, it does NOT do this. You can register and still have your username hijacked. It’s happened right here on numerous occasions since this new system was introduced.
“(2) It makes a poster take (a little?) more responsibility for their comments.”
So, suppose I make up a username out of the blue, like “Slim Jim”. Why, exactly, is this going to make me more careful about what I say? I mean, I can make up an entirely different username tomorrow if I want to. But then again, why would I want to given that no one on earth could derive my identity from the moniker “Slim Jim”?
So, as you can see, there’s no technical advantage to the current system. As earlier posters point out, all it does is draw more of a distinction between “good” posters who tow the Brownstoner line on gentfication etc. and “bad” posters who don’t. Frankly, I think it’s awfully juvenile.
3:36, this is how I look at the issue of registration:
(1) It allows regular posters to have control over what appears over their name. When it says, “Brenda from Flatbush,” it really is because she signed in. Under the old system, anyone who wants to claim to be “Brenda from Flatbush” could just type her “handle” into the name field.
(2) It makes a poster take (a little?) more responsibility for their comments. I know having a recognizable nom de plume, as anonymous as it is, forces me to think, “Do I really want to be associated with this comment?” This doesn’t mean that I have to be a goody-two-shoes, as 1:25 falsely implies, just that I want to be fair in my criticisms (and the like) because I want to maintain the credibility of the g-man character, whoever the heck that is.
Sure, naming is inherently ego-related and the on-line personalities we create are subject to all the weirdness we are capable of as real people in the walking-around world. But on the whole, I think this is a good change. Except for the technological glitches that are still being worked out…