Questions About the Site and Its Ownership and Maintenance

As far as I know, nothing has been done to improve the site lol. It has a very old-school feel

I'm fine with it. I come here to get different kinds of perspectives than you would find on popular, highly moderated places like Reddit. The smallness of it gives it almost a village-y feel

My only complaint is that there are legitimate white supremacists/bigots that have found a home here. They don't seem to frequent General Discussion, but they sure do like to ruin the movie pages. You can block those people though, I guess

I don't think they are going out of their way to grow the site much. I think it occupies a certain niche, because realistically it's not like it could even compete with social media sites

The only way to improve this place is if people post great threads.

I do love that this is text-only, and like that there's been no changes, since most of them in general are shitty.

Thanks Mod4 I appreciate how truthful and helpful you always have been here. 👍

Those are all good improvements. One main thing I was hoping is at least to be able to suggest that films omitted from the site be added and find someone capable of doing that, but don't know where to apply if people don't answer emails.

Everyone seems to agree on this, it's a weird thing, I just don't see much of anything ever changing here...I'm fine with it, it's a free site with lots of fun posters

Yeah, Hownos is the name I most associate with MovieChat. He appeared to be Nimda's nemesis. And I like to know the power structure before I delve in.

Is Hownos a mod? And if not, why not?

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I had hoped so but sadly not the case. I wanted to comment on some versions of A Christmas Carol I recently saw, and here's what I found.

Internet Movie Database Title A Christmas Carol exact matches: 100

MovieChat.org Title A Christmas Carol exact matches:
Total which comes up at first: 8
Total which comes up when you hit "See more results": 6

How is "See more results" LESS or do I want to know?

Internet Movie Database Title Scrooge exact matches: 20

MovieChat.org Title Scrooge exact matches: 8
Total which comes up when you hit "See more results": 2

As you can see, something is very wrong here. I didn't get to comment on any versions made before 1935 and I'm not even finding the famous 1938 version here! What's more, I couldn't post in the genre section as there is no section for holiday films. Children and Family would be the closest.

There is one version neither site has listed, that is the 1901. Perhaps Internet Movie Database knew about it and considered it too short (the surviving footage seems to be about six minutes so originally it was probably ten minutes or less) but it was the first filmed version of the story ever. Perhaps they were not aware of it. Of course, since there's no getting through to the soulless heartless machine which is IMDb, it would do no good to tell them even were I inclined to help them in any way. A lot of other early versions are, however, listed there.

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