“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”

Post by buyx » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 6:05 PM UTC

theDoug wrote: post #102

vermooten wrote: post #91

I didn't know they had a message board.

Forums were the social add-on of the mid/late-90s that generally produced orders of magnitude higher traffic to a site higher than its core content. Especially if topics were contentious and people insisted on always being “right.” Pair it up with CPV ads in the early days, and folks had a guaranteed income source with little work, and even less if administration of comments were lax.

Post by djsumdog » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 6:19 PM UTC

Void_ wrote: post #92

exodust wrote: post #42

Thumbs 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.

Post by mynameishere » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 6:23 PM UTC

notatoad wrote: post #98

virtuabhi wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Post by Markoff » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 6:27 PM UTC

amatix wrote: post #110

exodust wrote: post #42

Thumbs 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…

Head to https://letterboxd.com — besides looking and working beautifully, it's designed from the ground up as a social movie site to find, review, track and share great (and awful) watches. The list functionality is superb — Best car chases? Submarine films? Movies where white people solve racism? Got it.

Post by nisse72 » Sun, Feb 05, 2017, 6:29 PM UTC

bogomipz wrote: post #77

nkozyra wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But that undoubtedly cost IMDb money. Litigation on its own can be enough to sway the risk/benefit scale, even if the civil complaint is entirely baseless.

>"Litigation on its own can be enough to sway the risk/benefit scale" We are talking about one frivolous law suit in 16 years of an online presence. I would say by that the risk/benefit ratio is pretty decent.