Boards are dead all over despite them being copied from IMDb
Since IMDb banished the forums from their site (and this one copied it), all of the threads and various boards spread out are disentangled from the entirety of the IMDb site itself, which means many (most?) boards have become a ghost town. Since you can't normally go on IMDb and rate or review/check out a title and then go to the message boards, this site is like a copy of the boards broken apart from the main (and important) structure of IMDb itself.
For this reason the majority of the site that would've had active boards otherwise (like IMDb years back) is now going to be mostly dead boards since few people will come here to just seek out boards themselves, as opposed to on IMDb where it was all tied together.
I figure most of you here know this, but thought I'd explain why this place is a weak attempt to continue the message board system onward. It is sad in a way, but I guess better than nothing. The thing is that as long as this place and IMDb remain separate, there will never be an equivalent amount of traffic and interlinking between IMDb itself and reviews, ratings and the boards all unified and active. This place is like a limb cut off that's kept alive still on the side, but is no longer part of the main body in which it can connect and work with as a whole.