They saved our posts

Pass the word on to others

That's right, and it's going to take some effort, as in,--and I hate the word--proactive. It can be done. I've gone into old threads and posted. It's a different system from the IMDB so it takes some getting accustomed to but indeed those old threads are saved and can be kept alive.

I joined under a different username but notice that at least some of my posts under my old name survived.

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pankoeken, unless I'm misunderstanding you or have missed something, I don't think there's any relationship between signing up here, and having your posts imported over from IMDb.

I visited this site last week before I signed up, and saw on MovieChat's individual movie/actor boards all of my replies and original threads that were still also on IMDb's message boards as of Feb. 16 , 2017. After signing up on MovieChat (a process which currently only asks for you to choose a username and password, not for you to provide an email address (which is what the IMDb sign-in was dependent on), there was no change in what content I was able to access, and there is no apparent connection between my MovieChat account and my IMDb account (e.g., if I click on my username from one of my imported-from-IMDb posts, I get redirected to the main MovieChat page, not my MovieChat profile page).

So I don't think there's any connection between signing up/signing in and having your old IMDb posts here. I think what's happened is, the first 10 posts (original post plus 9 replies) to every thread that was on each of IMDb's message boards as of 2/16/17 or thereabouts--regardless of who the original poster was and regardless of whether they join this site--is now on MovieChat. Anyone please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or if you've had a different experience...

I would be careful of telling people that if they sign up to MovieChat, all of their old IMDb posts and threads that they created will be here, because I don't believe that's necessarily true, and you wouldn't want new users to feel misled or let down. Unless there's more data on the way, I believe that everything we already see here (signed in or not), is everything that MovieChat has.

Are you seeing more posts on the boards when you're signed in vs. when you're not?

Here's Jim's Welcome to MovieChat post that you might find helpful in case you missed it:
http://www.moviechat.org/movies/general/posts/58a28ce74dcf9300116f391d

Nice to meet you, pankoeken. :)

It actually has nothing to do with that. My screen name is a lowercase version of the one I had on IMDb and the reason the posts are still there is because this website was scraped from IMDb, prior to the message boards being deleted off. I can still go back to the movies and shows I messaged on and see my old screen name; however, there are movies and shows that I did message on and there is literally nothing on that show's or movie's page.

I'm not trying to argue with anyone but this is how I came up with my theory. Before I joined, I went to the Archer board because I knew I had the thread with the most replies and wanted to see if it was there. It wasn't. After I joined my thread appeared. Either way I'm glad many of our posts have survived and I hope the site becomes as popular as the old one.

I noticed that too...which is why I decided to use the same username that I did on IMDB.