jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The trolling here gets old. A small group is unhappy with anything the city does that isn't status quo. Their candidates for city council failed to get the nominations. Rather than acknowledge that most voters don't agree with them, they engage in ad hominem attacks on Justin Wilson. Rather than acknowledge that people can have other policy views, the trolls claim corruption and greed.

Any time anything is posted about Alexandria, they storm out in force. The trolls get angry when called out, and ask Jeff to delete some of their posts and some of the posts that call out this as trolling. There seems to be no consistency with how Jeff moderates. It's disappointing that he allows one specific jurisdiction to get trashes.

Very few posts regarding Alexandria get reported. It is more frequently for posters to simply complain in a way that is unhelpful because, like you, they complain about trolls without identifying them. Since both sides think the other is trolls, it basically means that all the posters are trolls.

What I normally do is remove all posts that I can identify from one specific poster who is your neighbor in Del Ray. That poster is a blatant racist who is not welcome to post here. I remove his posts and any replies to them. That may result in what appears to you to be an inconsistent pattern of removals, but it is actually very consistent.

I'm going to respectfully disagree with you here. I don't see what you see (and I'm not the individual you think you've ID'd), but I had several posts removed that were critical of the vandalism of JD Vance's house. My spouse is a POC and my children are biracial so for you to claim that it's racist to disagree with the intolerance shown to newcomers is .... frankly, BS.

Where have I said that disagreeing with intolerance to newcomers is racist? I didn't say anything of the sort. But, if you want to talk about BS, I think that is a good way to describe the suggestion that putting yarn on a sign post is "vandalism" of a house. If that is what your posts did, that is a perfectly good reason to remove them. Moreover, since both you and the troll in question use either VPNs or proxy servers, I could easy confuse the two of you. If you are using a VPN, you will automatically be more suspicious in my view simply because VPNs are so often used by troublemakers.

Get with the 21st century Jeff. VPNs are used by educated consumers of internet data. Calling their users troublemakers is like bragging that you don't use your seatbelt. There are a gazillion reasons to use them, not the least of which is to prevent your employer from seeing you socializing during business hours.

I think I know more about what happens on this site than you do. The vast majority of troublemakers are either using foreign IP addresses (because they are foreign spammers) or using VPNs. That doesn't mean that every VPN user is a troublemaker, but I am less likely to give VPN users the benefit of the doubt if other factors suggest they are trolling or an otherwise unwanted user.

Feel free to use a VPN. But just don't complain when you post describing putting yarn on a signpost as vandalizing a house gets removed.

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The trolling here gets old. A small group is unhappy with anything the city does that isn't status quo. Their candidates for city council failed to get the nominations. Rather than acknowledge that most voters don't agree with them, they engage in ad hominem attacks on Justin Wilson. Rather than acknowledge that people can have other policy views, the trolls claim corruption and greed.

Any time anything is posted about Alexandria, they storm out in force. The trolls get angry when called out, and ask Jeff to delete some of their posts and some of the posts that call out this as trolling. There seems to be no consistency with how Jeff moderates. It's disappointing that he allows one specific jurisdiction to get trashes.

Very few posts regarding Alexandria get reported. It is more frequently for posters to simply complain in a way that is unhelpful because, like you, they complain about trolls without identifying them. Since both sides think the other is trolls, it basically means that all the posters are trolls.

What I normally do is remove all posts that I can identify from one specific poster who is your neighbor in Del Ray. That poster is a blatant racist who is not welcome to post here. I remove his posts and any replies to them. That may result in what appears to you to be an inconsistent pattern of removals, but it is actually very consistent.

I'm going to respectfully disagree with you here. I don't see what you see (and I'm not the individual you think you've ID'd), but I had several posts removed that were critical of the vandalism of JD Vance's house. My spouse is a POC and my children are biracial so for you to claim that it's racist to disagree with the intolerance shown to newcomers is .... frankly, BS.

Where have I said that disagreeing with intolerance to newcomers is racist? I didn't say anything of the sort. But, if you want to talk about BS, I think that is a good way to describe the suggestion that putting yarn on a sign post is "vandalism" of a house. If that is what your posts did, that is a perfectly good reason to remove them. Moreover, since both you and the troll in question use either VPNs or proxy servers, I could easy confuse the two of you. If you are using a VPN, you will automatically be more suspicious in my view simply because VPNs are so often used by troublemakers.

Get with the 21st century Jeff. VPNs are used by educated consumers of internet data. Calling their users troublemakers is like bragging that you don't use your seatbelt. There are a gazillion reasons to use them, not the least of which is to prevent your employer from seeing you socializing during business hours.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The trolling here gets old. A small group is unhappy with anything the city does that isn't status quo. Their candidates for city council failed to get the nominations. Rather than acknowledge that most voters don't agree with them, they engage in ad hominem attacks on Justin Wilson. Rather than acknowledge that people can have other policy views, the trolls claim corruption and greed.

Any time anything is posted about Alexandria, they storm out in force. The trolls get angry when called out, and ask Jeff to delete some of their posts and some of the posts that call out this as trolling. There seems to be no consistency with how Jeff moderates. It's disappointing that he allows one specific jurisdiction to get trashes.

Very few posts regarding Alexandria get reported. It is more frequently for posters to simply complain in a way that is unhelpful because, like you, they complain about trolls without identifying them. Since both sides think the other is trolls, it basically means that all the posters are trolls.

What I normally do is remove all posts that I can identify from one specific poster who is your neighbor in Del Ray. That poster is a blatant racist who is not welcome to post here. I remove his posts and any replies to them. That may result in what appears to you to be an inconsistent pattern of removals, but it is actually very consistent.

I'm going to respectfully disagree with you here. I don't see what you see (and I'm not the individual you think you've ID'd), but I had several posts removed that were critical of the vandalism of JD Vance's house. My spouse is a POC and my children are biracial so for you to claim that it's racist to disagree with the intolerance shown to newcomers is .... frankly, BS.

Where have I said that disagreeing with intolerance to newcomers is racist? I didn't say anything of the sort. But, if you want to talk about BS, I think that is a good way to describe the suggestion that putting yarn on a sign post is "vandalism" of a house. If that is what your posts did, that is a perfectly good reason to remove them. Moreover, since both you and the troll in question use either VPNs or proxy servers, I could easy confuse the two of you. If you are using a VPN, you will automatically be more suspicious in my view simply because VPNs are so often used by troublemakers.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, I wnet to Taqueria Poblano last night for dinner and there wasn't a parking spot within 500 yards of the restuarant. I had my 83 year old mother with me and it was early so I dropped her in front and parked a half mile away and wlaked back.

Surely adding a bunch of massive, towering, apartment buildings will help the situation.

Half a mile. Give me an effing break. Or learn to parallel park. If you feel entitled to parking immediately in front of your destination, stick to areas with parking lots. (Speaking of which, there’s one across the street from taqueria poblano!)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I wnet to Taqueria Poblano last night for dinner and there wasn't a parking spot within 500 yards of the restuarant. I had my 83 year old mother with me and it was early so I dropped her in front and parked a half mile away and wlaked back.

Surely adding a bunch of massive, towering, apartment buildings will help the situation.

Half a mile. Give me an effing break. Or learn to parallel park. If you feel entitled to parking immediately in front of your destination, stick to areas with parking lots. (Speaking of which, there’s one across the street from taqueria poblano!)

Los Tios is better, anyway.

That is a truly ridiculous statement. It’s objectively wrong. TP is a world better than LT, get out of here with that nonsense.

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The trolling here gets old. A small group is unhappy with anything the city does that isn't status quo. Their candidates for city council failed to get the nominations. Rather than acknowledge that most voters don't agree with them, they engage in ad hominem attacks on Justin Wilson. Rather than acknowledge that people can have other policy views, the trolls claim corruption and greed.

Any time anything is posted about Alexandria, they storm out in force. The trolls get angry when called out, and ask Jeff to delete some of their posts and some of the posts that call out this as trolling. There seems to be no consistency with how Jeff moderates. It's disappointing that he allows one specific jurisdiction to get trashes.

Very few posts regarding Alexandria get reported. It is more frequently for posters to simply complain in a way that is unhelpful because, like you, they complain about trolls without identifying them. Since both sides think the other is trolls, it basically means that all the posters are trolls.

What I normally do is remove all posts that I can identify from one specific poster who is your neighbor in Del Ray. That poster is a blatant racist who is not welcome to post here. I remove his posts and any replies to them. That may result in what appears to you to be an inconsistent pattern of removals, but it is actually very consistent.

I'm going to respectfully disagree with you here. I don't see what you see (and I'm not the individual you think you've ID'd), but I had several posts removed that were critical of the vandalism of JD Vance's house. My spouse is a POC and my children are biracial so for you to claim that it's racist to disagree with the intolerance shown to newcomers is .... frankly, BS.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The trolling here gets old. A small group is unhappy with anything the city does that isn't status quo. Their candidates for city council failed to get the nominations. Rather than acknowledge that most voters don't agree with them, they engage in ad hominem attacks on Justin Wilson. Rather than acknowledge that people can have other policy views, the trolls claim corruption and greed.

Any time anything is posted about Alexandria, they storm out in force. The trolls get angry when called out, and ask Jeff to delete some of their posts and some of the posts that call out this as trolling. There seems to be no consistency with how Jeff moderates. It's disappointing that he allows one specific jurisdiction to get trashes.

Very few posts regarding Alexandria get reported. It is more frequently for posters to simply complain in a way that is unhelpful because, like you, they complain about trolls without identifying them. Since both sides think the other is trolls, it basically means that all the posters are trolls.

What I normally do is remove all posts that I can identify from one specific poster who is your neighbor in Del Ray. That poster is a blatant racist who is not welcome to post here. I remove his posts and any replies to them. That may result in what appears to you to be an inconsistent pattern of removals, but it is actually very consistent.

Anonymous wrote:The trolling here gets old. A small group is unhappy with anything the city does that isn't status quo. Their candidates for city council failed to get the nominations. Rather than acknowledge that most voters don't agree with them, they engage in ad hominem attacks on Justin Wilson. Rather than acknowledge that people can have other policy views, the trolls claim corruption and greed.

Any time anything is posted about Alexandria, they storm out in force. The trolls get angry when called out, and ask Jeff to delete some of their posts and some of the posts that call out this as trolling. There seems to be no consistency with how Jeff moderates. It's disappointing that he allows one specific jurisdiction to get trashes.

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Anonymous wrote:You know that Alexandria has a council-manager government, not a strong mayor government, right?

Yes, but he’s been the deciding vote on the city council so he holds as much influence, if not more, than other city council members (he is a council member).

He also is waiting to run for Congress if Beyer would resign. Mark my words.

Anonymous wrote:You know that Alexandria has a council-manager government, not a strong mayor government, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Designed by the left to motivate developers to build additional units deemed 'affordable. Basically, they wanted to turn Del Ray into Roslyn but have 35% of the units be resrved for public housing.

After massive outcry, city Council shelved it. For now, at least.

What do you think they realized?

Could they have possibly realized that it would destroy all that is quaint there?

"Keep it quaint" = I got mine and don't want to make it possible for any additional people to live in my neighborhood. Let them drive in from Manassas.

Anonymous wrote:Rosslyn has a 31-story building. I'm sympathetic to efforts to preserve Del Ray's charm, but this kind of hyperbole grates on me. There's a reasonable middle ground between building skyscrapers and saying no to everything.

Anonymous wrote:Designed by the left to motivate developers to build additional units deemed 'affordable. Basically, they wanted to turn Del Ray into Roslyn but have 35% of the units be resrved for public housing.

After massive outcry, city Council shelved it. For now, at least.

What do you think they realized?

Could they have possibly realized that it would destroy all that is quaint there?