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Delete your IMDb account.
Daily reminder for 02/20/2017
Did Answer the Call's financial failure kill this project?
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Why not? It's an excellent film.
Hah, I'm not actually the bloke that used to post those reminders. I was simply being cheeky.
It seemed like a fitting post to make on the first day of post-IMDb film discussion.
Our first real troll! How exciting!
TMDb fills the database niche, but there's no argument that Moviechat isn't the superior forum.
Really wish the leaders of these other websites would get over themselves and realize this fact, and promote MC for the sake of the IMDb community. But, I suppose that wouldn't be ideal for their web traffic numbers on the monetary side of things.
I certainly did, and with surprisingly little hesitation.
IMDb v2.0 seems a bit rubbish to me. If MC had better publicity leading up to the death of IMDb it would have almost certainly replaced it overnight. The question is how to raise awareness about it.
I was a lurker. Greetings.
I used IMDb for well over ten years. It was only in the last couple of years that I started to encounter being referred to as a "troll" - without exception by people that became cantankerous about my opinion toward films or television series that they liked being harsh. It's the only reason I don't sneer at conservatives the moment they whine about being put down for differing opinions - sadly often, it is a true fact of the internet in the post-2014 world. Near the end of IMDb's run I began to receive the "red text" warning about watching one's conduct, despite that that had never happened, and that I had never violated their terms of service. I felt quite bitter and irritated about it by the end, frankly.
This is not the case for all and there are indeed many trolls about, but "troll" has risen in prominence to being a pejorative used to write off opinions expressed with a bare modicum of tact, or even opinions that simply aren't agreeable to the beholder.
Please please DON'T "ged rid of the trolls", because that distinction is a very slippery slope when one is not dealing in the obvious, such as neo-Nazi rhetoric or the like. For merely audacious behaviour, I'm entirely capable of rolling my eyes and looking elsewhere. Save deletion and censorship for scam and spam.
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