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

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

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Post by sgustard »

Just picked a movie at random (Rogue One) and the top featured message board posts are:

  Krennic or Hux?	 

  I want a Chirrut Imwe & Baze Prequel

  What other genres could be transplanted to the Star Wars Universe?	

  Just saw the film tonight - It was OK.
To me, that's a pretty random collection of fringe topics or opinions. Are these really the top things up for discussion about the movie? How about an AMA with the moviemakers? Seems like a lot of potential here not being used.

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

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Post by RUG3Y »

lucker wrote: post #209
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.

4chan seems to do ok. Or maybe not, depending on your perspective. There are a ton of smaller chan style boards that are awesome and don't seem to have the problems everyone is talking about here.

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

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Post by ransom1538 »

lucker wrote: post #209
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.

Sure. Just have boards filled with childporn and dick picks. Let me know how that goes.

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

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Post by zeroer »

sgustard wrote: post #211

Just picked a movie at random (Rogue One) and the top featured message board posts are: Krennic or Hux? I want a Chirrut Imwe & Baze Prequel What other genres could be transplanted to the Star Wars Universe? Just saw the film tonight - It was OK. To me, that's a pretty random collection of fringe topics or opinions. Are these really the top things up for discussion about the movie? How about an AMA with the moviemake…

Probably an interested and intelligent community never developed because the commenting and threading tools are so poor. Any discussion of a movie on reddit is 1000x better.

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

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Post by sova »

malz wrote: post #206
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…

A fascinating proposition!

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

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Post by RUG3Y »

djsumdog wrote: post #143
Void_ wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought Reddit had pretty good discussions about movies.

I rarely go onto Reddit these days. After their warrant canary disappeared and their CEO was caught editing comments, I feel like it's no longer a website I want to support. There aren't any real alternatives though. Voat is like 4chan fucked some YouTube comments and then had a Danares Targaryen style demon baby.

Voat was really cool initially, but it's become a cesspool or racism and hatred. That echo chamber is almost as bad as the Reddit echo chamber.

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

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Post by jimmydouglas »

Hi all! I am a co-founder of Trakt and I thought you would all like to know our thoughts on this.

We are planning on significantly revamping our community engagement experience. In fact, it is our most significant project for 2017 and we sketched out the plan over a weekend last month.

Trakt has a form of threaded discussion on our web app today. But of course, it has a long way to go before it can fill the shoes of IMDB. The feedback we are seeing here about what people appreciated about IMDB is extremely helpful, so please do keep it coming, or feel free to reach out to us directly. That said, our approach will be different from traditional forum-style discussions because we see an opportunity to vastly improve the experience by following the lead of today's well-executed communities.

Of course, our intention is to facilitate discussions within Trakt that are categorized within specific media like a TV episode, a movie, and likely more options such as directors and actors. While doing so, we have two major priorities that I hope will set us apart from what you previously had available to you:

1) A community built on respect and reputation. A great example is Product Hunt, where I can always count on having a productive discussion should I decide to provide feedback to a maker or hunter.

2) A composition experience that helps you make beauty out of words. Of course, Medium has done a wonderful job with this and I hope to apply some of the lessons learned from their platform as it has evolved.

In the meantime, if you're interested in seeing your IMDB data imported to your Trakt account, there are multiple members of our community who have built wonderful tools to enable you to do this. Here's one: https://github.com/damienhaynes/TraktRater

Thank you!

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

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Post by RUG3Y »

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.

I've seen almost no trolling here, it seems to get shut down pretty quickly.

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

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

#220

Post by ieatkittens »

ransom1538 wrote: post #213
lucker wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Sure. Just have boards filled with childporn and dick picks. Let me know how that goes.

CP is never welcome and gets removed. Even un- or barely moderated boards do so.

Dick picks, on the other hand, are tedious but not inherently bad.

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