Please make login in compulsory to post message ...

I think this would decrease traffic to your website greatly - nobody wants to have to login.

Another vote for poster ID. Or create a members only section where you have to login to post. I would not stop coming to the website and don't think that traffic would decrease.

boooooo! no login... we need the psychos to stir up issues

Yeah, make login mandatory along with that $10 sign up fee to use this web$ite.

the $10 a month is really worth it...there is so much more info i can find on the web site.

This is a wonderful site, a smart caring community & there is lots of invaluable information shared here. There are however some real wackos & very unkind people, as well, and because they are unidentified it does enbolden them. As a matter of fact, is there more of that of late? Anonymous

If folks have to log in, they won't show how miserable and obnoxious they are. I love a website that brings out the worst in people by trying to make other feel like crap. It provides a very important service to the real estate community. Blogs telling me how stupid my purchase was and how gross my new neighborhood was made me want to perform random act of kindness for the next several weeks. Please keep the anonymous postings.

We're definitely going to make some changes. It's getting really out-of-control. We're spending way too much time deleting stupidity, and we'd rather be adding data/features.

I recommend keeping the anonymous posting also. I won't post info anymore. Some of
the off topic postings are funny....
geez it is NEW YORK!

I am perfeclty nice and fine, I would never log in and spend 10 a month on bloggling. It adds up to 120 a yr. that could go to salsa lessons instead.

agreed! if you charge, i predict your site will ultimately fail

I don't think it is out of control at all. I think it is interesting to see everyone's point of view. If they have to login you'll end up getting a board full of brokers.

We're not talking about charging, and we would also keep anonymous postings. We're also not talking about "points of view", but the trolls who post questions and then respond to themselves over and over and over, call everyone idiots, etc.

Then there's that idiot who escaped from the mental hospital at Maison East & is posting Maison East, Maison East everywhere. It's a wonderful site but the wackos really get in the way;I don't find them cute & they derail conversations. I don't know what the fix is, tho.

Keep it anonymous. I think you'll continue to get more honest viewpoints...and some folks have an interest in keeping their identities hidden. For example, someone asking advice about a coop board who's already paid his deposit.

Sure, the risk is you get the crazies & psychos but overall I've found this message board to be one of the most helpful during my process of buying NYC real estate, getting detailed advice that I was unable to obtain anywhere else. And, as everyone knows, you certainly can't trust brokers or managing agents.

get rid of maison east postings! very annoying

I agree with #17. Inaddition there are other sites where you have to log in to (eg, wirednewyork). Why not have this one be different. I cannot agree more as to the maison east crazies! Although I have to think that it is some broker who is behind most of if to generate buzz for that lame ass rental conversion!

I am actually surprised that there aren't more crazy postings. I think anonymous is fine - it's easy to just ignore the annoying people. I find myself revealing financial stuff that I wouldn't if it weren't anonymous.

Posting without logging in doesn't make really mean you are 'anonymous' per se. For the internet noobs: the minute you go online, you can be easily tracked down without you identifying yourself. Forcing authenticated posting has just a psychological effect, i.e. hoping to make people more responsible.

Just a note to comment #17 about "everyone knowing you can't trust brokers":Sigh... I am a broker and on numerous occassions have been one of the posters giving detailed insights and advice.Including to people looking to fsbo and/or buy on their own.I am sure I am not the only broker helping here, it stands to reason as we are better informed and more "in the know" than most of the general public. Obviously there is no impetus for me to take 5 minutes of my time to help people who state something needlessly nasty about brokers in their op, but with anyone else I always help. Why people wouldn't genuinely appreciate anonymous intelligent broker postings is beyond me. How could i possibly benefit personally by anythin I say here, be it about financing, specific properties, the market in general?Noone knows who I am here, I am clearly not trolling for business, truthfully I don't get it.

#22, it's #17 here - I'm sure many brokers are ethical and offer good advice, as you explain. My point was that it's difficult to know whom to trust (brokers, attorneys, mortgage brokers, coop boards) esp if you're a first-time buyer. And even than....I've had too many tricks played on me, unfortunately mostly by brokers.

Actually, your comment only illustrates the case for remaining anonymous....you may not have posted this if we knew your name.

#22 here. #17--yeah, I take your point on the intent of the original post. Your post just happened to get me at the exact moment where I have had it with the bashing, though yours was not a particularly incendiary post, lol. Actually there is nothing I have posted here that I would have not written had my name been on it. Disinclined to do so simply because 1)noone else has their name 2)anything I would then say may be perceived as having an agenda 3) don't want nasty ugly emails sent to me as happened to someone else I know who made the mistake of posting a well thought out and polite albeit dissenting opinion on curbed with their full name.

Our broker lied to us, so I would suggest that all buyers verify
EVERYTHING on there own. Nothing wrong with warning others so it doesn't cost them
an additional 90,000.

#25 how were you lied to? curious, thanks

Someone did not tell them the truth.
I think that's how you get lied to

in what regards?
what was the lie?
they told you the neighborhood was safe and someone mugged you?
they told you the neighbors were nice?
they told you the apartment would go up in value 500%?

To #25--Nothing wrong with warning others, but some more details would probably serve the purpose better than a blanket beware.