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

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Post by alex_hitchins »

ransom1538 wrote: post #192

Developed/ran a message board software for 4 years. Running a large message board network is one of the worst experiences I have ever had. You are constantly wasting time moderating people, blocking people, recalculating algorithms, dealing with attacks and explaining to the police you don't have the IP address in question. Every large message board I have developed or managed revolted or sued us ([1][2] random examp…

Interesting to read your post. I had always thought running a forum would be hard work but somehow rewarding.

What where some of the reasons you would get sued?

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

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Post by Cyph0n »

electrichead wrote: post #195

I know that a lot of people don't frequent the boards so they might not see value in them, but I have a few experiences over the years that endeared this community to me. One was right after watching the second movie in the Matrix trilogy: the cliffhanger left so many open questions that the conversations around it were immensely interesting. I think actually that a few of the theories then (Zion in a zion and others…

Agreed. One of the only times I contributed to the board was on a thread discussing why time travel in Timecrimes[1] (superb movie!) was not consistent. Without spoiling it, we ended up discussing all sorts of alternate theories in an attempt to have it make sense.

Another cool thing is visiting the boards of interesting movies or shows that are still far out from release. You usually find details about estimated release date based on current progress and photos from production.

[1]: http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/

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

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Post by ransom1538 »

alex_hitchins wrote: post #201
ransom1538 wrote: post #192

Developed/ran a message board software for 4 years. Running a large message board network is one of the worst experiences I have ever had. You are constantly wasting time moderating people, blocking people, recalculating algorithms, dealing with attacks and explaining to the police you don't have the IP address in question. Every large message board I have developed or managed revolted or sued us ([1][2] random examp…

Interesting to read your post. I had always thought running a forum would be hard work but somehow rewarding. What where some of the reasons you would get sued?

Not quickly responding to DMCA complaints[1], subpoenas[2], death threats [mainly just working with police], illegal content. With one forum, the owner sued saying that content was 'theirs' and wanted us to provide the mysqldump as a settlement.

[1]http://www.dmca.com/FAQ/What-is-a-DMCA-Takedown

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_subpoena

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

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Post by TD-Linux »

alistproducer2 wrote: post #196
ransom1538 wrote: post #192

Developed/ran a message board software for 4 years. Running a large message board network is one of the worst experiences I have ever had. You are constantly wasting time moderating people, blocking people, recalculating algorithms, dealing with attacks and explaining to the police you don't have the IP address in question. Every large message board I have developed or managed revolted or sued us ([1][2] random examp…

Great point.

That's an awfully big generalization to post on an internet commenting system.

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

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Post by sien »

madgar wrote: post #176
degenerate wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be like Y Combinator shutting down its "message board", citing " Increasingly, Y Combinator customers have migrated to Reddit "

If hacker news doesn't stem the growth of trolling (which has pushed out plenty of my friends) then it probably will eventually "shut down" new signups for a while.

Really?

HN has the least trolls of any board I look at.

Can you provide examples?

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

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Post by malz »

ransom1538 wrote: post #192

Developed/ran a message board software for 4 years. Running a large message board network is one of the worst experiences I have ever had. You are constantly wasting time moderating people, blocking people, recalculating algorithms, dealing with attacks and explaining to the police you don't have the IP address in question. Every large message board I have developed or managed revolted or sued us ([1][2] random examp…

I developed and ran social networking features for a fashion site with an almost entirely female audience, age range 20-50. I was fully expecting bad behavior but was surprised as it grew that people were unfailingly nice, supportive and encouraging to each other, with only a few exceptions. Of course I'm aware that females, like anyone else, can be nasty to each other, but it barely happened here with membership in the thousands. It would be an interesting social experiement to replicate that on a larger scale while limiting the demographic by gender, age, and so on to see how it affects the behavior of the group.

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

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Post by sgustard »

TD-Linux wrote: post #204
alistproducer2 wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great point.

That's an awfully big generalization to post on an internet commenting system.

His comment made me slightly sadder than I was before I read it, so from that viewpoint it is accurate.

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

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Post by buyx »

voltagex_ wrote: post #3
roryisok wrote: post #2

Makes sense. I don't see what the big deal is, surprised to see this at the top of the front page? I had to double check I wasn't looking at /new

What information are we going to lose when it's deleted? Will IMDB consider handing the data to the Internet Archive?

Since they had rolling expiry of messages, based on what I've seen, a couple of years of forum posts for less popular movies, and a few months worth for more popular ones.

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

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Post by lucker »

ransom1538 wrote: post #192

Developed/ran a message board software for 4 years. Running a large message board network is one of the worst experiences I have ever had. You are constantly wasting time moderating people, blocking people, recalculating algorithms, dealing with attacks and explaining to the police you don't have the IP address in question. Every large message board I have developed or managed revolted or sued us ([1][2] random examp…

Seems like a lot of that can be solved by simply not moderating or censoring anythng.

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

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Post by DanBC »

alistproducer2 wrote: post #196
ransom1538 wrote: post #192

Developed/ran a message board software for 4 years. Running a large message board network is one of the worst experiences I have ever had. You are constantly wasting time moderating people, blocking people, recalculating algorithms, dealing with attacks and explaining to the police you don't have the IP address in question. Every large message board I have developed or managed revolted or sued us ([1][2] random examp…

Great point.

They're just much harder than people thought.

It's weird that people thought you could just bolt comments onto a webpage without problems, because we had all those years of Usenet to show that it wasn't that easy.

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