Talkin' Broadway All That Chat — Page 2

i attempted to join and it took almost a month for me to be confirmed or whatever, which was obnoxious and i'd forgotten the reason why i had wanted to. and it's a very difficult site to read (like seriously why is it formatted the way it is)

You can chose to view the threads in "Flat Mode" which is much better - much closer to the 'thread' format here. Hopefully their new design if more user friendly.

I agree that "Flat Mode" makes it far easier to read, but whether you are in the standard format or "Flat Mode" the posts are not arranged strictly in chronological order. Little sub-threads can be created as you don't have to respond to the thread as a whole, but you can also respond to an individual response in the middle of the thread. Let's say you read a thread in the morning that was listed as having 7 responses. You come back in the evening and it now has 12 responses. There is no guarantee that those 5 new responses are at the end of the thread. Therefore each time you see a new response was added to the thread you are forced to scroll through the entire thread searching for the new response.



The lack of archiving posts is such a limitation to the site. If every two weeks someone sees and starts a thread on Waitress, for example, the only way for interesting discussion to occur would be for everyone who has posted in past Waitress threads to repost all their thoughts. There's zero continuity to thoughts on specific shows/topics and limited opportunity for discussion.

I think that's probably one reason why the traffic there has died. The posters there don't seem to comment a great deal on the new shows, but once you've shared your anecdotes for the tenth time about the original production of GYPSY (because the threads aren't archived) you don't feel like doing it anymore.

What are the rules over there? I think I've seen a moderator 'warning' about posting links to bootleg videos but are there other rules that are really extreme?

QueenAlice said: "What are the rules over there? I think I've seen a moderator 'warning' about posting links to bootleg videos but are there other rules that are really extreme?



One of them is they don't like "polls", but they use that definition very, very loosely. They don't like any thread that would seem to call for lots of responses, because that pushes other threads off the board faster than they normally would be (because again, they operate in 1997 without any archives). However, what is and is not a poll has always varied wildly depending on who posted it.

There's lots of others, but that's just one example.

The rules: https://www.talkinbroadway.com/tos/

They will also delete anything that seems even vaguely "off topic".

I've had a few posts deleted. You get a rather sharp email saying something about why it was deleted and that continued infractions will get you banned or something like that. Hey, it's their site, and I don't pay a subscription, so whatever.

But the rules are not uniformly enforced. The last post of mine that was banned was something about Chenoweth appearing on a TV show. It was deleted because television is off-topic on a Broadway forum. Fair enough, but Kristin is a bonfide B'way actor and star and the posting seemed relevant and of interest to a B'way crowd. Again, their site, their rules. But shortly thereafter there was a post that was allowed to stay on basically the same theme of a stage actor on TV. I wonder if the main moderator shares oversight with others? Maybe she is stricter to the rules than other moderators?

QueenAlice said: "What are the rules over there? I think I've seen a moderator 'warning' about posting links to bootleg videos but are there other rules that are really extreme?"



Take a look at the rules to register, and that's just scratching the surface.

https://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat_new/register.php

Whizzer, if you go into flat mode you can then click "last post" at the top right on the page, which will allow you to see the most recent posts at the top of the page. And there is also a tab you can click in flat mode labeled chronological order, which is how I read that board.

I like both boards. Why choose between mom and dad?

I used to post over there way back when. I seemed to be the only one who posted freely, with a sense of humor and what came naturally. I don't think I was popular. Finally, I got sick of the lack of humor and the proliferation of stuffed shirts, and being chastised by the moderator - Ann? I asked to have my account deleted and never returned, even to read it.

Ann is the "suburban soccer mom" mentality to which I referred earlier.

I found long ago that this site had much more humor than ATC; although Jordan Catalano and themysteriousgrowl, my two favorites, seem to be kind of MIA lately. And I miss them.

By the way, here they are, discussing being discussed (I'm surprised it hasn't been deleted as "off topic):

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat_new/d.php?id=2355496