IMDb message boards being axed

Nooooooooo where am I going to bitch about everyone on Corrie 😲 this board is a great one and I'll genuinely miss it

I've signed it.


James?
I think it may be time to go home
take me round the world one more time
Why not!

Thanks for the link to the petition. I hope that we can cause a reconsideration in this matter.

I shall miss the IMDb message boards. Alter them as necessary to get rid of the problems but please don't have us lose them completely.

Thanks laura1-07! I signed the petition last night and I've seen now there are over 3000 signatures.

I have just posted this on the Classic Film page, but I thought it might be appropriate to reproduce it here:


This is a sad time, isn't it.

I have been a member here for fourteen years. I haven't made that many posts, because I am not by nature a keyboard warrior, and have scarcely bothered with the other fora; but I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the many intelligent comments about films and their makers, both on Classic Film and on the individual pages.

I cannot say that I have noticed any trollery on Classic Films, but I used to contribute to the Coronation Street page. This section deteriorated quite alarmingly a few years ago, when somebody with too much time on his hands decided to start about thirty-five accounts, all of which were obviously the work of the same person and all of which were supposed to be written by Indian immigrants (although I suspect he may not have been subcontinental at all) and all of which were devoted entirely to discussing, at inordinate length and at a very poor standard of literacy, which actress had the biggest wazoos or the hairiest bush. Needless to say, whenever he was called up on this, he would cry racism. Well, I hope he is proud of himself for having destroyed such an excellent platform for communication.

Why this social inadequate was not moderated out of existence is a point worth questioning, because it would have been the work of a moment to have discovered his IP address and banned him. I wrote at the time (it has long since vanished into the ether) that, a few years previously, I myself had two posts removed. One was about Helen Mirren and the other was about Sarah Miles and, yes, I can see how somebody who had led a very sheltered life might have been upset by what I had written. But at least I gave every indication that I had, at some point in my life, been alone in the company of a woman, which is more than can be said for this troll, who probably still lived with his mother. Not that there would be anything wrong with that if one's mother looked like Lea Massari or Jill Clayburgh or Julianne Moore or, indeed, Helen Mirren or Sarah Miles; but most people's mothers don't. Mine didn't, for a start.

Come to think of it, I had several other posts removed, but all of the rest were about how fat and repulsive Kate Winslet is, which doesn't really qualify!

I have just this minute signed up for IMDB2, which one hopes is going to prove a reasonable replacement for our sad loss, although it can never hope to emulate the amazing wealth of detail to be found here, and which, thankfully, is not going to be removed just yet. I had a quick look at the Reddit site, which someone else recommended, but I didn't like the look of it; I may be wrong. Another site was mentioned, with a very similar name to this one (can't remember exactly what; I'll search for it when I have finished writing this) but I haven't visited that one yet.

After I have eaten, I am going to send P.M.s to some of the contributors whose posts I have enjoyed reading here. No doubt, I shall forget to mention a whole string of people, to whom I offer my apologies.

Good luck to everyone, and let us hope that we find a new home. It is a shame that, through the idiocy of some of its contributors and the negligence of its proprietors, this one has been allowed to fall into such neglect.

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Cry, God for Harry, England, and St. George!