Dear fellow posters, thanks for all the conversations. Probably best if I sign off now, avoid any long tearful farewells.
To quote Big Chris from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ;
"It's been emotional"
It's a strange decision.
we have concluded that IMDb's message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experienceAre they referring to the trolls? To me they're just background noise.
Too bad.
Any recommendation where can we get the similar experience?
I will be able to decode human mind once I complete my first 1000 movies.
Nothing that I know of.
There's Rotten Tomatoes, but it doesn't have message boards. Just reviews, where only the top reviewers are seen.
Reddit probably has subs for movies, actors, TV shows, etc, but they've got a different system. The upvote/downvote system adds something, but also takes something away in my opinion.
Facebook and Twitter, but anything you write on there will be buried, unless you're an "influencer" (i.e. someone who has a lot of followers, gets a lot of likes).
Nothing like imdb though. Everything in one place, where you can comment on it, and have your comment stay no matter how dumb you are.
Unfortunately imdb will be relegated to The Old Internet, an Internet of simpler times.
If there is a demand though, maybe someone else will step up and fill the niche.
I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe
I tried many websites and forums. Nothing comes close to 'the old internet'.
shareNothing that I know of.
There's Rotten Tomatoes, but it doesn't have message boards. Just reviews, where only the top reviewers are seen.
Reddit probably has subs for movies, actors, TV shows, etc, but they've got a different system. The upvote/downvote system adds something, but also takes something away in my opinion.
Facebook and Twitter, but anything you write on there will be buried, unless you're an "influencer" (i.e. someone who has a lot of followers, gets a lot of likes).
Nothing like imdb though. Everything in one place, where you can comment on it, and have your comment stay no matter how dumb you are.
Unfortunately imdb will be relegated to The Old Internet, an Internet of simpler times.
If there is a demand though, maybe someone else will step up and fill the niche.
Rotten Tomatoes has message boards. They were way more active years ago than they are now though.Interesting, thanks. I'll have to have a closer look.
I did have a look but I don't immediately understand their system. I log in and see posts but I can't reply to them.
It looks suspiciously like they have an upvote/downvote system that I don't like on social message boards.
Sure, if I'm looking for the best answer to some technical question. But if people are just voting based on taste or opinion, you're just just looking at Emergent Phenomenon. Which is interesting objectively, but ultimately disheartening.
I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe
I honestly do think it's because of the trolls. I mean, if you are a new user and you so onto the Walking Dead, Game of Thrones or X Files group, for example, you immediately get attacked by some idiot and you see that it's this giant community where they all know each other and have no jobs, and just post all day. Like, what they are eating for breakfast, and how drunk they are, etc. I suspect that turns off a lot of new people who would like to post about a particular movie or TV show. It's just not civil.
Then the world is getting more extreme: liberals are getting even more fanatic, and conservatives voted in this nightmare. So that has people screaming and pointing fingers and labeling and generalizing and it's just pointless! I think that is why IMDB is saying "screw this, we didn't create this site so that a bunch of losers could sit and chat all day, and call people names".
I hope that someone starts up a new site, just like IMDB. It's so user friendly. Just, make enough money to hire people to prevent trolls from taking over.
A simple mind is a tidy mind.
Nothing of value lost!
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Have you seen Robocop? Many people don't know that it's actually a documentary.
I am devastated
shareThe whole situation with them closing the forum looks like a way for them to get more people on their social media sites. And if that is the case I hope it backfires on them.
shareSounds legit. The "positive experience" angle doesn't gel. I thought the imdb boards were actually getting better. Could just be that the trolls are invisible to me now.
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Honestly, I don't know what IMDB was thinking when they decided to close the message boards. The only reason I come here is to find answers, give my unimportant opinion on the message boards, and check out the trivia section.
From what I understand, online traffic is a big deal to these companies. What will there be left to visit on this site for us? I mean, it's not like the whole place is overly inundated with trolls. There's a few of them here and there, but not enough to go over the edge and kill the message boards because it no longer creates a positive environment for users. What are we, 12?
I agree 100%. I religiously travel to the IMDB message boards after watching almost any movie. That will stop with the closing of the boards.
My guess is that you will see a huge drop in page views on this site.
There really is NOTHING like a universal Bible of the movie/TV industry where all was archived and every single actor, character, feature film, TV movie, TV series, foreign, crew member, etc., etc., etc. had their own message board on which people could comment. Still unbelievable what they destroyed.
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