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And you've always been able to report posts....now it's just easier, and must also mark the post itself to the admin....making it easier for them as well.

I was reading over the comments on said post and came across this comment.

Paul Russell Casting

MARCH 11, 2016 AT 5:18 AM

Thank you for the post. But unfortunately for BWW (and Back Stage) chat boards draw traffic and revenue. Back Stage is the worse of the offenders with the encouraging of negativity with ‘The Bitching Post.’ Answers for Actors will soon go live with a post though about how to track down the people behind the anonymous screen names.

This is very invasive and highly objectionable. Rob, would you mind speaking to this if such a post sees the light of day?

uncageg said: "I should know this But where is the block feature?

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If you go up to your settings, it is in upper right corner in between logout & the mail icon. Then at the top of your settings page there will be a message board area in red. The block users feature is the top thing. Once you click on that, you can type whatever screen name you want in for blocking. Just make sure you have the name entirely correct or you might block nobody or someone you had no intentions to.

Back Stage is the worse of the offenders

That's well wrote!

So now they are going to doxx people who express negative opinions about shows? Are there no adults working in NYC theatre?

Marianne2 said: "uncageg said: "I should know this But where is the block feature?

If you go up to your settings, it is in upper right corner in between logout & the mail icon. Then at the top of your settings page there will be a message board area in red. The block users feature is the top thing. Once you click on that, you can type whatever screen name you want in for blocking. Just make sure you have the name entirely correct or you might block nobody or someone you had no intentions to.

Thank you Marianne2.

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Theater_Nerd said: "I'm late to the "party", but what exactly prompted this new "report to mods" feature? "

Again, according to Rob, nothing.

"We’d been talking about making it easier to report posts that violate our guidelines (and/or common decency). And while that update was scheduled for a later release with a few other site features, we pushed it forward today and got it up. I’m proud of how quick our team did that, and I’m pleased with the number of helpful reports in the few hours since it launched. (Since it’s early evening launch, we’ve made few more tweaks to it as well to make it a little easier, thanks to those who send us feedback on the feedback!). "

Theater_Nerd said: "I'm late to the "party", but what exactly prompted this new "report to mods" feature?"

#theshroudofmurin, haven't you heard? Rob is catering directly to her because of all the traffic her Bachelor recaps bring to the site. She wrote a blog post about how mean this board is and asked for it to be scrubbed from the internet so in response the feature was added to appease Her.

This is getting deleted too, AC.

The report to mods button would've been helpful when phillypinto was trolling us every day.

AC126748 said: "Sounds like a real My Dinner With Andre. Do we really think Rob is going to do anything more than prostrate himself before Patti and kiss the ring?"

I think it'll go something like this...

People! The more credit you give her for the button's implementation, she more credit she can claim for it.

The more you point out that it was going to happen anyway & the independent factors that actually went into the decision, the less ability she has to say "Look what I did!"

And the fact is that it was planned to happen and it happened. She's irrelevant.

"This is very invasive and highly objectionable. Rob, would you mind speaking to this if such a post sees the light of day? "

I hope this happens because then horrible people like you could take responsibility for their actions and not hide behind their computer screens spewing hate. If you ever met Chad Kimball in person you would realize how kind, smart, and talented he is. Using the term "mentally retarded" in 2016 is just sickening, so if someone could burst your ignorant, hateful, moronic bubble of anonymity, so be it. You're despicable.

Im so glad this happened, and I wished she called more people out. I hope Rob blocks people who constantly violate the rules and who only contribute racist, sexist, bigoted, offensive, hateful crap.

That's a lot of name calling there Margo.

I've reported your post as abuse.