Closure - only one reason I can think of…
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grumpy_otter — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 06:43 PM)
I've been coming here for 12 yearsto discuss. I don't post a whole terribly lot, but when i do my experience has been overwhelmingly positive. As with anything on the internet, to avoid drama do not create nor respond to it. I've had wonderful substantive discussions with other users.
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ImReallyANarc — 9 years ago(February 10, 2017 07:48 AM)
I have read several different theories and I think this is the most plausible. I don't buy for a minute their "official" reason; there are hundreds, if not thousands, of very active message boards with unpaid community moderators that don't cost a whole lot to maintain. Considering IMDB's traffic and all the photos and videos hosted on the site, they can't spare a little server room for these message boards for the slice of their daily visitors that use this feature?
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Film_o_philiac — 9 years ago(February 10, 2017 05:13 PM)
Something is amiss mate - I don't buy that they're buddying up with Facebook for one minute
I don't buy that it is to do with the "trolls", there have been kids on here for years and it has never bothered them
The proof is in the pudding - the ceo has said himself:
concluded that IMDbs message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide
That sounds like a sales pitch to me - the usage of the word "positive" and "useful" is also interesting indeed.
Telling you, they don't want people calling foul on beep films (especially
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ImReallyANarc — 9 years ago(February 10, 2017 06:07 PM)
I don't buy that it is to do with the "trolls", there have been kids on here for years and it has never bothered them
Not to mention that, complaints about the lack of moderation aside, it's easy enough to just add somebody to the ignore list and report the really offensive stuff.
Yes, there are trolls and a-holes. And yes, there are people who learned how to exploit the reporting systems. But in all honesty, compared to Youtube and many other heavily-trafficked sites, the trolls really aren't too bad here. -
FriedEggMan — 9 years ago(February 13, 2017 01:43 PM)
The proof is in the pudding?
What does that mean? The proof of WHAT is in the pudding?
Dont you mean "The Proof of the pudding in is the eating"?
Puddings are not receptacles of proof.
It means you have to taste the pudding to know if it's any good. -
ptuk-1 — 9 years ago(February 13, 2017 02:15 PM)
As soon as these boards go down IMDB comes off my favourites list simple as that, i'll just switch to other sites until they decide to reopen them but whatever happens this move to close the boards stinks to high heaven.