The Hoboken Journal: New Rules- Comments

Saturday, July 17, 2010

New Rules- Comments

Update 7/21/2010:

A certain anonymous poster boink! was not who I initially thought it was, i.e. a public official with a penchant for such activity based on past expereinces. I was able to confirm through the ip address and analysis that it was not that individual. The user boink! wanted it to appear that he was a sychophant/supporter of a certain public official when he/she in fact is not. In fact quite the opposite based on my analysis.

Original Post 7/17/2010:

I encourage commenters to pick a name and stay with it. Creative names like "I LUV Timmay" and "Grafix Avenger" are just fine. If I suspect you are a public official who insists on not going on the record and logging in under multiple aliases I will block your IP and delete your posts. The occasional guest comment if it is on the up and up will be allowed. This isn't censorship, it is my website and my new rules.

If your comment is held in moderation, it could be that I have filtered certain words like c*cks*cker, motherf*cker, plain old f*ck, and boink! Feel free to email me if you feel you have been blocked or moderated unnecessarily at kurt.gardiner@gmail.com. I have no problem with differences of opinion, I have a problem with feckless, deranged and spineless individuals who can't accept accountability. I don't have a problem with the strongly opinionated. For the rest of you comment freely but do take responsibility. Your anonymity is still assured. ◦

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khoboken · 765 weeks ago

Got it, Thanks for the explanation. Agree 100% BTW. It appears that the "handlers" have been out in full force the past 24hours.

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Guest II · 765 weeks ago

FYI. I am not a handler of any sort for anyone .

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deleted5542758 83p · 765 weeks ago

Thanks for this Kurt. I was just thinking earlier that I have an idea about a certain person and a few handles going on.

YAY

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Katie_Scarlett · 765 weeks ago

Kurt - every time I post and I'm logged in as Katie_Scarlett, when I go to make another post it says my session is timedout and i have to logout and log back in.

Any idea what I can do to fix that? If not, no biggie. As you can see, on the longer threads I don't log back in, I just comment as Katie_Scarlett without the login.

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Gardiner4Hoboken 90p · 765 weeks ago

This is not about Guest II, it is about guest and the anonymous posts.

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Guest II · 765 weeks ago

Thank you Kurt.

As is clear to you I am not and never have been a public official of any sort.

Dealers choice: Kurt, if you have any problems with my screen name I will let YOU (and only you) to chose one that fits your parameters.

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Gardiner4Hoboken 90p · 765 weeks ago

Slight modification to the rules based on some testing.

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Redrider765 · 765 weeks ago

GRACIAS!!!!! Tony done got on my nerves w/ the multiple IDs.

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Gardiner4Hoboken 90p · 764 weeks ago

I blocked a few ips too.

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ss1959 · 765 weeks ago

Do public officials include board members?

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Grafix Avenger · 765 weeks ago

Problem: each of my multiple personalities insists on having his or her own screen name- so what do they do?

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p1ywood 98p · 765 weeks ago

You could have them go out to have a few drinks and straighten it out.

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p1ywood 98p · 765 weeks ago

This is a very positive step towards a better dialogue.

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p1ywood 98p · 765 weeks ago

.......it will really help, as the cloak and dagger scene just gets silly and unproductive. Invariably becomes a shoving match.

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Anonymous Goat · 765 weeks ago

Kurt great idea but I think a lot of folks are going to try and get around it. You're going to need to do more work to stop them. IP is just 1 locale. Every terminal at the Hoboken Library has a dedicated IP as do the computers as The Office and Kinkos. I think local trouble makers will resort to using different locations to sign in as different user names, and this is Hoboken so this is a certainty not a possibility. Then you'll have people using Proxy's so every time they sign in a random IP is fished out of a pool. I think the best way to go about it is to have everyone resign up for the site and moderate comments for consistencies in verbage and structure to weed out those running all over town to defend themselves.

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p1ywood 98p · 765 weeks ago

Alternate thread title:

"Fe, fi, fo, fum,
I smell the blood of a politician"

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davidd · 765 weeks ago

Permiiting creative names is cool, I just hope uncreative ones are permitted too!

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