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Feb 3, 2017 - 10:11 AM
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Jim Phelps
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IMDb Message Boards Announcement
IMDb is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb’s message boards on February 20, 2017. This includes the Private Message system. After in-depth discussion and examination, we have concluded that IMDb’s message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide. The decision to retire a long-standing feature was made only after careful consideration and was based on data and traffic.
Increasingly, IMDb customers have migrated to IMDb’s social media accounts as the primary place they choose to post comments and communicate with IMDb’s editors and one another. IMDb’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/imdb) and official Twitter account (https://twitter.com/imdb) have an audience of more than 10 million engaged fans. IMDb also maintains official accounts on Snapchat (https://www.snapchat.com/add/imdblive), Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/imdbofficial/), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/imdb), and Tumblr (http://imdb.tumblr.com/).
Because IMDb’s message boards continue to be utilized by a small but passionate community of IMDb users, we announced our decision to disable our message boards on February 3, 2017 but will leave them open for two additional weeks so that users will have ample time to archive any message board content they’d like to keep for personal use. During this two-week transition period, which concludes on February 19, 2017, IMDb message board users can exchange contact information with any other board users they would like to remain in communication with (since once we shut down the IMDb message boards, users will no longer be able to send personal messages to one another). We regret any disappointment or frustration IMDb message board users may experience as a result of this decision.
IMDb is passionately committed to providing innovative ways for our hundreds of millions of users to engage and communicate with one another. We will continue to enhance our current offerings and launch new features in 2017 and beyond that will help our customers communicate and express themselves in meaningful ways while leveraging emerging technologies and opportunities.
http://www.imdb.com/board/announcement
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Sure, there's a lot of annoying "Worst Movie Ever" and "Boring!" threads, but there were also a great deal of fun and useful discussions there. I'll miss it.
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Over at IMDb they're pointing out the owner's comment in a couple threads.
One was that people weren't getting a useful or positive experience because of trolls. So, they think people are going to get "useful" and positive" experiences from places like Twitter and Facebook, full of trolls, fake accounts, and nasty people who post and link to garbage?
And in another thread he apparently said the board was tens years old and getting hard toi work with. Yeah, and? So, what, in ten years will his Get Satisfaction board be tossed out for the same reason? I've been on at least two boards that have been around for over ten years, and they've migrated to new servers, new forum software, made massive updates -- their answer wasn't: well, it's getting tough, might as well dump it!
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Feb 4, 2017 - 5:30 AM
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Rameau
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I think it's a good thing, lots of trolling, lots of arguments, I did enjoy the battles between the obvious studio plants who'd talk up a really awful film & the haters who'd trash it. A while ago caps-a-holic closed down their comments section, quite right as there was a lot of nasty stuff on there, some people can be quite vile online. There's another site I visit, mostly movies & music, but they did have political threads that got really nasty, well the site had enough of them & closed them down, & it's a much nicer site now.
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A pity. I never really posted anything, but I read the boards quite often.
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Feb 4, 2017 - 9:20 AM
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RoryR
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I've decided this is a good thing after going back to IMDb and looking at the message boards for a few of my favorite movies. It's mostly shallow, nitpicking arguing over continuity errors or plot flaws or, in other words, nothing you can do anything about! Truly pointless babble that usually degenerates into nastiness. (Of course, there are helpful things too, like "Hey, this movie is coming to DVD or Blu-ray!")
But, someone got really nasty with me one time because he (or she, you never know) couldn't take my insistence that BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES was one of the worst sequels ever made. Eventually, this person repeatedly told me I need to commit suicide by jumping off a five-story building. Why just a five-story building I never got an answer to, but if I were going to kill myself in that way, it would have to be from a height greater than a five-story building, I can tell you that!
Of course, I can't help but play troll sometimes when something annoys me, but telling someone to really go kill themselves? That's vile.
But much worse are the things I've read said about some actors, mostly those now long dead (poor Joan Crawford!). It gets really vicious and, of course, not just moronic but sub-cretinous.
I'll never forget reading after Jerry Goldsmith's death, "Good, one more dead Jew."
So, good riddance to it. I just hope they don't end user reviews of movies, too.
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It's not always about the fueding endlessly, some people just refuse to stop -- they get off on it. Others look to cause a shit storm on purpose 'cause they want to silence others.
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