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IMDb is shutting down its message boards.

Gaith

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This is a real bummer. Yes, most of its content was crap, but there was almost always good stuff worth sifting around and finding. And to this day, I'll occasionally surf around to my favorite obscure boards late at night, when I should have turned in a half-hour ago, to see if there was anything new. It was as comforting a ritual as warm milk; no matter where I was, at what stage in life, there was tangible proof that someone, somewhere, somewhen cared about the same thing I did. And now all these thoughts, ramblings, explanations of convoluted plot twists, and bits of gossip will be lost... like tears in the rain. :(
 
On one hand, most of it was just crap anyway. But on the other hand, that's a helluva lot of clicks they're losing.
 
I always enjoy lurking on IMDB, just for fun or when I'm bored. Oh well. Guess I'll have to do something more constructive with my time.
 
Ironically, today was the first time I actually read a significant portion of their threads. And now this happens.
 
Gaith said:
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This is a real bummer. Yes, most of its content was crap, but there was almost always good stuff worth sifting around and finding. And to this day, I'll occasionally surf around to my favorite obscure boards late at night, when I should have turned in a half-hour ago, to see if there was anything new. It was as comforting a ritual as warm milk; no matter where I was, at what stage in life, there was tangible proof that someone, somewhere, somewhen cared about the same thing I did. And now all these thoughts, ramblings, explanations of convoluted plot twists, and bits of gossip will be lost... like tears in the rain. :(
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See what racist assholes do to a BBS when you don't moderate? That's what happen to this board.
 
I'm kind of not really surprised. There has been an uprising of stupid and pointless threads. Sometimes I forget how horrible people are when they can cower behind their keyboards.
 
IMDb Message Boards Announcement
IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb's message boards on February 20, 2017. This includes the Private Message system. After in-depth discussion and examination, we have concluded that IMDb's message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide. The decision to retire a long-standing feature was made only after careful consideration and was based on data and traffic.

Increasingly, IMDb customers have migrated to IMDb's social media accounts as the primary place they choose to post comments and communicate with IMDb's editors and one another. IMDb's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/imdb) and official Twitter account (https://twitter.com/imdb) have an audience of more than 10 million engaged fans. IMDb also maintains official accounts on Snapchat (https://www.snapchat.com/add/imdblive), Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/imdbofficial/), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/imdb), and Tumblr (http://imdb.tumblr.com/).

Because IMDb's message boards continue to be utilized by a small but passionate community of IMDb users, we announced our decision to disable our message boards on February 3, 2017 but will leave them open for two additional weeks so that users will have ample time to archive any message board content they'd like to keep for personal use. During this two-week transition period, which concludes on February 19, 2017, IMDb message board users can exchange contact information with any other board users they would like to remain in communication with (since once we shut down the IMDb message boards, users will no longer be able to send personal messages to one another). We regret any disappointment or frustration IMDb message board users may experience as a result of this decision.

IMDb is passionately committed to providing innovative ways for our hundreds of millions of users to engage and communicate with one another. We will continue to enhance our current offerings and launch new features in 2017 and beyond that will help our customers communicate and express themselves in meaningful ways while leveraging emerging technologies and opportunities.
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Well, I'm not on Facebook, and this move just isn't enough to get me to make a page. It's more likely to have me delete IMDB out of my favorites list completely.
 
Takes me back to the day when we found out Television Without Pity was going away. I still miss those times, even if the mods were heavy handed.
 
I think more often than not when I finished watching a movie I would head over there to read if there were any interesting reviews and comments. It's too bad because there were some really interesting things to be found there. I think shutting down the individual actor pages wouldn't be the worse thing as that was often just "Actor looks like/is hot/sucks/happy birthday" threads (though I've read more looks like ones than I care to say) but the movie and TV boards were often good. Personally, I wish they had kept all of it but c'est la vie.
 
I will also miss it. The problem was felt though, the larger movies and stars forums were completely ruined by trolling.
 
There's not a single film I've ever looked at on the IMDB message boards that within 15 posts there won't be a thread called "worst movie ever" with the content been about one sentence like "this movie sucked, it was so boring, how can anyone think this is good."

Any film.
 
I've found so many rare links and discussions and references to other things from those threads. Sad, sad day. It was nice having entire boards dedicated to, say, Star Trek V. Lots of good conversation. For every troll board there are a handful of legit ones. This is crap.
 
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