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Post by gomezaddams666 on Feb 6, 2017 1:58:30 GMT
Do you really think IMDb will be stupid enough to close the area that gets more traffic?
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Post by j2 on Feb 6, 2017 2:05:05 GMT
Do you really think IMDb will be stupid enough to close the area that gets more traffic? I think they're that arrogant and that stupid, yes. In any case, as far as I'm concerned and regardless of what they do, they can't be trusted.
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Post by gomezaddams666 on Feb 6, 2017 2:09:41 GMT
It's more than shooting yourself in the foot tho.
With THAT many boards, I'm inclined to believe more than half the users go there JUST for the boards.
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Post by Slam Evil on Feb 6, 2017 2:11:22 GMT
They wouldn't have announced it if they hadn't already decided to do it awhile ago. It's a done deal.
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Post by gljbradley on Feb 6, 2017 2:18:54 GMT
Unfortunately, I think they are. They are willing to lose A WHOLE LOT OF SUPPORT over something they could've easily taken care of. I'm still so devastated by the decision. It's like breaking up with your longtime love after 11 years. 11 freaking years!!! Gone down the drain!
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Post by gomezaddams666 on Feb 6, 2017 2:21:26 GMT
Unfortunately, I think they are. They are willing to lose A WHOLE LOT OF SUPPORT over something they could've easily taken care of. I'm still so devastated by the decision. It's like breaking up with your longtime love after 11 years. 11 freaking years!!! Gone down the drain! I was thinking they should have had a Facebook type block where the people you ignored couldn't follow you. But I think people posting a lot of hateful stuff (from all sides) did not help ar all.
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Post by gljbradley on Feb 6, 2017 2:39:12 GMT
Unfortunately, I think they are. They are willing to lose A WHOLE LOT OF SUPPORT over something they could've easily taken care of. I'm still so devastated by the decision. It's like breaking up with your longtime love after 11 years. 11 freaking years!!! Gone down the drain! I was thinking they should have had a Facebook type block where the people you ignored couldn't follow you. But I think people posting a lot of hateful stuff (from all sides) did not help ar all. Yes. There have been trolls here and there. But then again, there are trolls EVERYWHERE from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. At least you had the option of ignoring the trolls on IMDb. How could they do this to us?! I've actually been so upset over this to where I've started crying. It's like I wasted 11 years of work of adding information to trivia and discussion on message boards. It's so frustrating and painful.
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Post by gomezaddams666 on Feb 6, 2017 2:43:30 GMT
I was thinking they should have had a Facebook type block where the people you ignored couldn't follow you. But I think people posting a lot of hateful stuff (from all sides) did not help ar all. Yes. There have been trolls here and there. But then again, there are trolls EVERYWHERE from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. At least you had the option of ignoring the trolls on IMDb. How could they do this to us?! I've actually been so upset over this to where I've started crying. It's like I wasted 11 years of work of adding information to trivia and discussion on message boards. It's so frustrating and painful. Oh I hear you. The thing that hurts me the most is that they are eliminating boards of classic movies like the 30 and 40s Classic Monster movies. This was such a bad move...
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Post by gljbradley on Feb 6, 2017 2:57:23 GMT
Yes. There have been trolls here and there. But then again, there are trolls EVERYWHERE from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. At least you had the option of ignoring the trolls on IMDb. How could they do this to us?! I've actually been so upset over this to where I've started crying. It's like I wasted 11 years of work of adding information to trivia and discussion on message boards. It's so frustrating and painful. Oh I hear you. The thing that hurts me the most is that they are eliminating boards of classic movies like the 30 and 40s Classic Monster movies. This was such a bad move... More than just a bad move. It's a DAMAGING MOVE! What they did is straight up betrayal to us who had been devoted to the site. I hate that they're also getting rid of the boards for classic monster movies. I'm so sorry it hurts you. To tell you the truth, I can barely type this message because of how this is making break down. I'm serious. If you would've seen what I look like now, you'd think that somebody had died.
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Post by gomezaddams666 on Feb 6, 2017 3:00:53 GMT
11 years is a long time, I feel for you. I'm sorry this affected you this much.
I cant imagine the people who have been there all 16 years.
At least we have this now, tho.
It can improve with the years and it is a big FU to those IMDb creators who spat upon us.
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Post by gljbradley on Feb 6, 2017 3:25:01 GMT
11 years is a long time, I feel for you. I'm sorry this affected you this much. I cant imagine the people who have been there all 16 years. At least we have this now, tho. It can improve with the years and it is a big FU to those IMDb creators who spat upon us. Thank you. I hope so. This site still feels like your run of the mill type of boards. IMDb was a bit easier to navigate on the message boards.
I also wonder how those who've been there for 16 years must feel. I mean, I can't help it. I just feel like IMDb shoved a knife into my back and left me to bleed out. And I had SO MANY THINGS PLANNED on the site and so many threads and posts I wanted to make on various message boards. But now with this, all of that just came to screeching halt. It's like 11 years of discussion and contributing was WASTED!!! I have a movie list on there called "Films That Look/Feel Like Or Would Be An Episode Of Tales From The Crypt" and I was planning on adding a few more films that fit the criteria I created. But what I want to do now is delete the list and all of my other lists on there, and try to make the list somewhere else. But I don't know where and I don't think it'll have the same impact it had on the site. What gets me is that a lot of the films on the list are films most haven't heard of but they are pretty good and fit the TFTC vibe, and IMDb was a place where obscured films gained new life with some devoted fans. And now, that's being taken away. It's like a hot blade being cut through my heart because since the age of 14, I'VE WASTED 11 YEARS OF MY LIFE OVER THIS SITE!
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Post by tarathian123 on Feb 6, 2017 3:43:50 GMT
I used the message boards for over 10 years myself. I wouldn't call it time wasted. I learned a lot from it. Can't understand the decision to bin them. If it's because of financial reasons then a nominal subscription fee could have kept the faithful while deterring the trolls.
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Post by AlexHurricaneHiggins on Feb 6, 2017 3:50:33 GMT
Yes sadly.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 4:03:40 GMT
So, in short:
The problems IMDb had are easily fixed, but those in charge are just too lazy to do anything about it and would rather shoot all their toes off.
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Post by j2 on Feb 6, 2017 4:54:15 GMT
I posted there since 2002. They won't get away with this. They'll shut down their site, sure, but this will hit them right back, you can all bet on it.
Well, at least I went out badass and not just waiting for the 20th to come. They didn't get such pleasure from me.
Someone told me this is like burning all the history books. I told him it's far worse because history books are written by historians and imdb was written by PEOPLE from their own hands day after day after day.
Guys, you should REALLY consider listening to my proposition, at least someone out there. Don't get sad, get ANGRY. Somebody's gotta do something about this, and a new forum just won't cut it in the long run no matter how hard anyone tries, because the same damned thing can happen over and over again. So, anyone?
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Post by j2 on Feb 6, 2017 4:56:53 GMT
So, in short: The problems IMDb had are easily fixed, but those in charge are just too lazy to do anything about it and would rather shoot all their toes off. In short, they're all a bunch of maggots. sCUM, just like I told them straight to their face. You know, now that I think about it, I think I'm the FIRST whose entire data was deleted by imdb, how about that.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 5:00:58 GMT
They did? Yeesh... It's sad to have such corrupt people in charge of that place.
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Post by NileQT87 on Feb 6, 2017 5:07:03 GMT
I've been on IMDb with an account since May 2001 (and I'm only 29--that was the month of my 14th birthday!). It's literally been over half my life that I've known about IMDb.
The boards were 90% of the reason I liked the site in the first place. It was easy to track down the one other person on the planet (sometimes it felt that way) that had watched the same very old movie or show or wanted to talk about some less-known actor, besides the ones that obviously have huge amounts of fans. You could find people talking about ANY movie, show or person, not just worldwide fanbase-level phenomena sure to have dedicated forums elsewhere. It was irreplaceable and there is no way to bring that back, no matter how many threads are started.
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Post by becauseiambatmanoffg on Feb 6, 2017 6:26:37 GMT
The boards are a negligible part when it comes to money earning. They claim to get 250 million visits but thats mainly because the IMDb page is among the first to come up when you google any movie. There are 1.7 million ratings for Shawshank Redemption, so at least that many registered users. The amount of people who use the message boards or at least the amount of signatures the petition has gotten isn't even 1% of them. So yeah, we are a disposable vocal minority.
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Post by j2 on Feb 6, 2017 7:32:44 GMT
They did? Yeesh... It's sad to have such corrupt people in charge of that place. They sure did. All I said is that they're sCUM for such a move and poof, all gone and internet address blocked. Well now I know what they are. They can rot in hell as far as I'm concerned.
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