Will HEATHERS Take The Neil Simon? — Page 3

"as it can be a very good thing with people accepting and connecting with others, but bad in the sense that too often these people become obsessed with these things and start taking it to bizarre and creepy levels."

Like starting a million threads with the SOLE purpose of making fun and mocking people who happen to like a specific show? Yeah, that is bizarre and creepy. I'm so glad that Instagram thing happened, and SO glad people are finally standing up to such an as$hole on this board. Sadly, there will always be people defending that person since they have been on here so long and are now immune to such disgusting behavior. Rach and Dustin, THANK YOU!

"I will however absolutely agree that Stage Dooring is a new phenomenon that has emerged in the last decade or so and is definitely the one that makes me scratch my head the most."

The term "stage-door Johnny" originated in 1910. The phenomenon has been around a bit longer than the last decade or so.

I didn't see Heathers. I don't care about its future endeavors. But wow, they have some thin-skinned fans (and composers) if they can't handle Jordan's posts.

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If people are coming here for information, they are going to be very disappointed.

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There's a rumor that the Simon is getting Gigi.

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"So the concern is that people coming in the Spring might be putting Heathers on their potential list of shows to see, and they only read the first post in a thread as confirmation? "

No, the concern is that certain posters frequently post false information in the effort to be funny and popular. It wasn't just the first post that was a joke/false, but rather that almost ALL of the first page of this thread was false, a joke, or people taking it seriously. This thread is far from an isolated incident. The problem is systemic. Quite often people come here asking for advice and are deliberately given false information because people think it's funny. Or new posters come in and are driven off.

"If every thread/post had to be humorless and on-point theater talk, you'd not have as many regulars on here, which is what creates the user activity that determines the ad rate BWW gets to charge. So, BWW would make far less money without joke threads and the train wrecks and the pile-ons. "

No thread has to be humorless (though I don't see what's so funny about a mean-spirited beat-to-death joke about a show that's been closed for months), and if you don't want on point theater talk, there's the off topic board. This thread is nothing more than spam on the main board. Temms and Sally, as I said, had some interesting thoughts, but it's lost in all the jokey nonsense.

It's only a matter of time before this board closes down if they don't instigate some changes. Or, like I said before, just turn the board into something else - but if you're going to promote the board as "Broadway World", it really shouldn't be too much to expect for it to be about Broadway - not fake stuff about Broadway.

Updated On: 1/11/15 at 02:06 PM

I don't "hate" anything. I am expressing my opinion on certain posters and how I feel they are a detriment to the board, particularly when it comes to spreading false information and attacking other posters to the point of them suggesting other posters kill themselves, as OP has done in now-deleted threads.

There is more good than bad about BWW, but it is getting out of balance, imo.

Don't you feel the need to speak up when you see something wrong?

It is true that eventually I will probably leave, as many posters have. I certainly come here less and less - as many good posters have.

Mods, can you put us all out of our misery and just block Sue Storm once and for all?

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"So the concern is that people coming in the Spring might be putting Heathers on their potential list of shows to see, and they only read the first post in a thread as confirmation? "

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OOOOOOOooook...OMG,a sly remark was made by the OP ~ so what! It's a theater blog so all you Heathers fandom just relax, don't be so sensitive as you don't have a sense of humor for this site as it's needed and move on...time for everyone to move on from this thread. If not, leave BWW as it will go on and on and on...
Will Heathers take the Simon...I thought it was funny as it was so far from being the truth so there!

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Updated On: 1/12/15 at 12:34 AM

Don't you dare try and change the subject.

GIGI

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