I didn't know they had a message board.
“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
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Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#92Thumbs down to whoever decided to close the boards. I'll miss being able to argue about why a movie is rubbish with someone who thinks it's fantastic, or vice-versa. There's some great discussions on some of the movie boards where people talk about the stories and motivations of characters etc. Sure it gets heated sometimes, but that's life. You just navigate around that stuff and find things worth responding to. Sen…
I thought Reddit had pretty good discussions about movies.
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#93Translation: "We thought we would get a community of fans for free. We didn't realize that maintaining a community requires active engagement, setting rules for behavior and enforcing them. We really didn't think anyone would bother being a troll. This is all too expensive to do properly."
i think it might have something to do with litigation. Wikipedia says that they have been sued by actors that got their age revealed on the message board https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb#Litigation And now California has a new anti-ageism law; wikipedia says "The bill forces IMDb to comply with requests by the actors featured on its pages to remove information about their age" so they might have decided to close th…
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects services from being responsible for what users post:
"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider"
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#94This is pretty bad move and here's why: IMDb relies on users using the site, editing entries, facts, quotes and correcting things. These are the community, and they are movie fans, hardcore fans, the reason why IMDb continues. The "db" in IMDb has been created, by hand, by volunteers - the users who use the message board. IMDb has totally overlooked the value of the Message Boards - they are for the community. Remove…
This is probably the most insightful comment here.
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#95Thumbs down to whoever decided to close the boards. I'll miss being able to argue about why a movie is rubbish with someone who thinks it's fantastic, or vice-versa. There's some great discussions on some of the movie boards where people talk about the stories and motivations of characters etc. Sure it gets heated sometimes, but that's life. You just navigate around that stuff and find things worth responding to. Sen…
I thought Reddit had pretty good discussions about movies.
Though it's just a crapshoot quality wise.
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#96I constantly check for meaning or interpretation of films there, so sad.
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#97Couldn't they replace it with something like Disqus? It's a great way to have social comments without the fuss of maintaining the whole system.
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
The sad part is it's due to a very small amount of trolls that did a lot of damage. I can't help but be disgusted that these guys are now laughing about IMDB shutting the whole thing down because of their actions.
IMDB says the decision was based on traffic and data. They don't mention trolls.
"we have concluded that IMDb's message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority..."
they don't explicitly say "we're shutting down because of trolls", but i think the message is pretty clear.
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#99I can't understand, is storing pure text too expensive for IMDB which is owned by Amazon which runs half the servers of the planet? Why don't they keep the threads while disabling new discussions?
There is a comment on Reddit saying that the ArchiveTeam is working on archiving them: https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/5s0iiv/slug/ddbugy5
Does this not run afoul of IP laws?
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#100This is great news. Quality of conversation is abysmal on those boards.