IMDb must be pissed at all the traffic they missed

I doubt they would care simply because i am sure the higher ups took that into consideration when deciding to close the boards.

like they probably figured a good portion of the message board traffic was spam and was just wasting their bandwidth and i am sure millions of people will still use the site so even if they lost a portion of the regular on the message boards it won't even be noticeable for them in the big picture.

so unless somehow they can generate $$$ from people using the message boards they probably could care less.

but if they do reinstate the boards hopefully they restore things back to the way they were prior to them taking the boards down especially for the per movie board discussion as you occasionally had some quality posts there. but the 'Film General' and the like can be reset since it's largely spam. but speaking of this stuff... if they reinstate the boards they need to make it better than it was with at least some moderators who can clean up the heavy spammers and have a better setup as it appeared easy for naeemak etc to create multiple accounts to spam the boards and we don't want that crap back as that i don't miss at all. so far these IMDb2 boards seem to just generally have better quality discussion as you don't see much people acting up around here thankfully.