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

I visited and posted on that board when the movie was in theaters...

I only actively participated for a couple of weeks on that board while the movie was in theaters... It was so hostile, I started responding back to others in the same way. I didn't realize how mean that I had become... And then I got that IMDb warning message about being on the verge of being banned, and realized that I had to stop... There were many other (Pleasant) boards on IMDb that I loved to participate on, and I just couldn't lose my access to those...

Posting there was the worst experience on the internet that I have ever encountered, anyway... So, it was easy to just quit posting to the Ghostbusters board...

I did check back regularly to see what was happening there... Knowing that I wouldn't respond to anything there, I found that I didn't take issue with what people said, and it because just something interesting to watch (Much like a train/car wreck)... I was amazed how the trolls and haters just kept at it month after month with so much hate and nastiness...

If there was a place that I would call hell, that was it.

When I heard that IMDb was shutting the boards down, I became convinced that the Ghostbusters board, was part of the reason for that decision.


I didn't see the movie in the theaters...But I did pick it up on DVD. After all that hoopla, and fighting in "hell", I just had to see it anyway...

I saw the film expecting that it would be really bad, just like everyone said it would be...

It definitely had a lot of flaws, but It was not the end of the world... Like so many people on IMDb thought it would be.