What was up with the Ghostbusters (2016) board on IMDB?

It's hard to be 100% sure what was really going on there... But, I don't think you are wrong...


I frequented some less popular boards, ("Ghost Towns" in some cases), and encountered a few posters where they would suddenly show up, and make posts to start a flame wars... You could view their posting history... Many would go to one board and make a post, and then they would go to another board and make a post, and then a third... It was quite obvious that they were not trying to genuinely discuss the threads on the board, they were just flamers trying to stir up conflict and chaos!

But I do think, there were a few posters who would use one account to flame 20 boards, and then they would log in as another poster to flame 20 more boards. Sometimes they would come back and hit some of the same boards... Because, these multiple users were never online at the same time!

Then there were a few posters that liked to make "Fake" posts... I remember one time, one poster said that "Carrie Fisher was NOT the daughter of Debbie Reynolds", but was the daughter of Elizabeth Taylor or something. Complete BS. All you had to do was look at the shape of Debbie's and Carrie's Eyes to know that they were related... This one particular poster really came up with some crazy fake posts!


So, I have no doubt, that there were flamers, multiple user accounts, and some crazies, posting on the Ghostbusters board... If they were doing it on the "Ghost Town" boards, which had almost ZERO Traffic... Then all of them, would definitely find and target one of the most active and controversial boards in IMDb history... It gave them exactly what they wanted and they were looking for!

The experience of participating on that board is something I never forget!... And I will always believe, it played a big part in the decision to shut down IMDb's message boards.