Safety, abuse & reporting

Curtn is meant to be a public record and a place to talk about the work. That means we want strong opinions, sharp criticism, and honest history. It also means we don't want harassment, threats, or libelous claims about real people — and we'll act on those when they turn up.

The line we try to draw is between what you said (fair game) and how you said it about whom (where most problems live).

• Harassment of a specific person. Persistent targeting, slurs, threats, sexualized comments about real people without their consent.
• Doxxing. Posting someone's home address, phone number, employer, or other private information.
• Impersonation. Pretending to be someone else, including claiming a page that isn't yours.
• Knowing falsehoods presented as fact. Critiquing a performance is fine. Asserting that an artist did something criminal when you know they didn't is not.
• Spam and scams. Bulk fake reviews, sock-puppet accounts, ratings rings, off-topic links that exist only to drive traffic somewhere unrelated. Artists promoting their own work is welcome — see below.
• Content involving minors that isn't directly about their stage work.

If you're an artist, company, or venue, you're welcome to use Curtn to share your work. Linking your upcoming run on your own page, posting a list of your past performances, telling your followers about something you're producing — all good. That's a healthy part of an archive that lives and breathes.

What we push back on is volume and dishonesty, not promotion itself. Don't make sock-puppet accounts to inflate your own ratings. Don't carpet-bomb unrelated pages with links to your show. Don't pretend to be an unaffiliated audience member writing about your own work.

Reviews are personal. You're allowed to think a show was bad, boring, derivative, or that a performance didn't land. You don't need to be nice to be on Curtn.

What we ask: punch up at the work, not down at the worker. A review that says the staging was incoherent is fine. A review that mocks an actor's body is not. A review that says a director's vision was confused is fine. A review that calls them a slur is not.

Most reviews, lists, and profile pages have a report option in their menu. Choose the closest reason and add a sentence of context if it helps. Reports come straight to a human.

For edits to a venue, company, or person page, you can also submit a removal request from the edit history menu — useful when the issue is what was written into the record rather than who wrote it.

A real person reads every report. Depending on what's there, we may:

• Leave the content up (e.g. it's harsh but fair criticism).
• Hide it from public view while keeping the audit trail.
• Remove it entirely.
• Warn or suspend the user who posted it.
• Permanently ban accounts in the worst cases.

We try to respond quickly but Curtn is small — give us a beat. If something is urgent (an active threat, content involving a minor), flag that explicitly in your report.

You can block any user from their profile. Blocked users can't see your reviews and lists, can't message or mention you, and their content disappears from your feed. Blocking is one-directional and private — they aren't told.

If you're an artist, venue, or company and something in the public record about you is wrong, defamatory, or unsafe to leave up, you have a few options:

• If the page is unclaimed, you can edit it directly or claim it and edit. See the claiming FAQ.
• If a specific edit in the history is the problem, submit a removal request from the history menu. Approved removals hide the content from public view but keep the audit record.
• If a review crosses the line into harassment or false statements of fact, report it. We'll look.

Curtn isn't equipped to arbitrate every grievance between the people who make work and the people who watch it. We can act on harassment and clearly false claims. We can't settle whether your performance was actually as good as you think it was, or whether a venue handled a bad night well.

When in doubt: report the specific content that breaks the rules above, not the underlying disagreement.