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Post by bobajeff »

Chathamization wrote: post #112
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…

There are some really interesting things you find on the message boards: - I once came across a nomadic TV watching club - they'd decide to watch a classic TV series, and then go to the board for that series to hold weekly discussions (you go in one week and see them discussing the first episode, then go in the next week and see them discussing the second, etc.). When the series was finished, they'd announce the next…

Hopefully the Internet Archive gets to archive these before Amazon deletes them in a couple of weeks.

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

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Post by iamdave »

spbaar wrote: post #239
hkmurakami wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. I used to moderate the largest English Starcraft forum. We had a pretty low tolerance for poor behavior, and people would cause shitstorms on other forums about our allegedly heavy handed moderation style. I'm no longer active on staff duties but the site is going strong so I'm guessing we did something right.

Team liquid is what I think of when I think of active moderation done right

That's a name I havent heard in a long time. Some of my best gaming experiences were with people I met there. Agreed 100%

Those guys and the DAD clan from TFC (now disbanded) had some of the greatest mods. They kept the places in check but they had a sense of humor about it.

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

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Post by pfranz »

brianwawok wrote: post #185
anigbrowl wrote: post #165

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Well, it's time to come up with a better solution than 'don't feed the trolls.' I have been saying for years that trolling (the aggressive kind, not the witty mutual banter kind) is a serious problem and the response is almost always 'oh just don't give them attention, that's what they feed on blah blah.' this ignores the fact that trolls and bullies systematically pick on people who are vulnerable and target their s…

Real ID helps but no one wants that.

I remember hearing recently that using real names doesn't help with online bullying. Here's an article I quickly found saying they're more hostile when using real names[1]

[1] https://qz.com/741933/internet-trolls-are-even-more-hostile-...

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

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Post by samatman »

forgottenpass wrote: post #198
quotemstr wrote: post #191

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Accusations of "trolling" lose some legitimacy when the word "troll" becomes "anyone with a political believe I consider unacceptable".

The watering down of the word "troll" made me suspicious, but what I've found is that in the last 15 years it seems like we've regressed in our collective ability to reason about online conversation. It used to be the case that "flame" was a word people knew, and that flamewars were treated as flamewars. Team "not getting involved" would peel off from the conversation and warn people with positions at stake not to ge…

Your comment reminded me of the word netiquette.

And now I feel grumpy and old. :\

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

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Post by beedogs »

RUG3Y wrote: post #212
lucker wrote: post #209

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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.

4chan is moderated to the hilt.

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

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Post by beedogs »

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.

Reddit is a garbage dump.

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Post by jowiar »

RUG3Y wrote: post #212
lucker wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Is this "If you can't beat em, join em" Nazi edition? Half the challenge of the other boards out there is keeping the waste of molecules that constitutes 4chan away.

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

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Post by bigger_cheese »

Yhippa wrote: post #82

If bulletin board software was made today and was free of the archetypes and styles of the 90's and 2000's would they be more popular today? Spent a lot of time on them during those years and I still find valuable information there whether it's how to fix a car or what strategy should I use to play a certain game. I think these communities were more tight-knit. They had some modicum of moderation as you typically had…

>I see a lot of sites I used to visit go this way including the forums for Magic: the Gathering

I used to post on the "official" WoTC MtG forums a while ago (2010ish) it was essentially dead back then. Threads would sit for weeks with no replies. I can see how it wasn't worth the effort to maintain/moderate them.

Sites like Channel Fireball etc killed the forums. I strongly dislike the MtG reddit page but discussion does happen there.

The forums dedicated to specific formats seem to be going strong still (i.e the mana drain for vintage).

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

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Post by joepie91_ »

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?

This seems unlikely. IMDB has always been extremely possessive of their dataset. Even in the shutdown notice, they take the effort to explicitly state "for personal use".

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

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Post by azinman2 »

kibwen wrote: post #227
RUG3Y wrote: post #212

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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.

Though 4chan does have moderators.

So why is there so much racism, doxing, and other horrible behavior? Or are only some of the boards moderated?
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