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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 0:33:06 GMT
corporate interests will always override those of the public. end of line.
anything they perceive as a threat to their version of reality will be assimilated or eradicated.
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Post by deembastille on Apr 10, 2017 12:01:28 GMT
The bullies, pure and simple. the allowance of people to have fifteen if not more accounts adjoined to their names/ip addresses. Admins who agreed that some posters needed to be 'disciplined' when they didn't. Them NOT disciplining the posters who did.
They started doing some damage control with the soapbox and them wiping out things after 24 hours of inactivity but that wasn't much.
That area plus the politics board just. didn't. belong. here. just too angry and bizarre.
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Post by SinisterCreep on Apr 10, 2017 20:47:43 GMT
This has probably got something to do with it ...... theweek.com/articles/473522/jeff-bezos-25-million-gaymarriage-pledge-4-takeawaysthat twat Bezos probably didn't like the many threads and posts pointing out the obvious LGBT agenda in film and tv at the moment. don't get me wrong i've no problem if gay people want to get married but it just shows he's part of the establishment who are using the LGBT movement as an excuse to crack down on free speech. All that money and all he can do is donate to people wanting to get married. wot a wanker!
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Post by Cooper, the Golden Retriever on Apr 16, 2017 2:47:57 GMT
What's far more likely, in my opinion, is that sponsors, and the like, sent not-to-ambiguous encouragement to websites, like IMDb, to either start implementing Gestapo-like policing of its communal message boards ― particularly for material that was deemed 'inauspicious' for the industry (even if it was edifying for consumers) ― or risk losing $upport. I believe this is what the problem was. They were afraid of losing sponsors because of some of the harsh statements people had made about certain celebrities and movies. Their buggy automated report system was practically useless, so the most logical step for them was to wipe the boards entirely. Anybody noticing something similar going on with YouTube? There's a guy called T.J. Kirk who made a whole video about Google losing advertisers because the material people uploaded was being deemed offensive. So, they took a lot of the controversial channels and dropped most of the sponsored content on their videos. He had the word "Atheist" in his name, so Google marked that as a red flag. I think his ad revenue was cut by 85%. That's huge considering the guy makes a living off it. I enjoy T.J.Kirk, formerly "The Amazing Atheist", and am long-subscribed to his site. He's a hilairous guy..
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Post by hi224 on Apr 16, 2017 4:53:03 GMT
because Roswell thats why.
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Post by SinisterCreep on Apr 16, 2017 5:53:45 GMT
I don't think there was just one reason. probably a few and they thought the boards were a liability. again they only like freedom of speech when it suits them and Bezos is a complete p.o.s.
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Post by telegonus on Apr 16, 2017 8:04:38 GMT
I don't think there was just one reason. probably a few and they thought the boards were a liability. again they only like freedom of speech when it suits them and Bezos is a complete p.o.s. I doubt there was one reason, either. The trolling was a major factor, likely the biggest; however there were larger cultural and political forces out there as well. It's my sense that the Trump candidacy and election played a part in the boards closure. No, not the political views of the Donald himself but rather the culture that swirled around him, and in addition to that his rather trollish disposition. It was like a red flag for the board closure partisans, a game changer. Like bartenders in a rowdy British pub in the wee morning hours they cried out: "time, gentlemen! Time!". And so it was.
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Post by SinisterCreep on Apr 16, 2017 20:13:31 GMT
I don't think there was just one reason. probably a few and they thought the boards were a liability. again they only like freedom of speech when it suits them and Bezos is a complete p.o.s. I doubt there was one reason, either. The trolling was a major factor, likely the biggest; however there were larger cultural and political forces out there as well. It's my sense that the Trump candidacy and election played a part in the boards closure. No, not the political views of the Donald himself but rather the culture that swirled around him, and in addition to that his rather trollish disposition. It was like a red flag for the board closure partisans, a game changer. Like bartenders in a rowdy British pub in the wee morning hours they cried out: "time, gentlemen! Time!". And so it was. Could well be. a swirling mass of creeping censorship. Apparently a lot of newspapers have been closing their online comments section too. Unfortunately the internet is becoming more and more the opposite of what many people thought it should be. i.e a platform for free speech. it's more like a trap.
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Post by SinisterCreep on Apr 16, 2017 20:19:58 GMT
corporate interests will always override those of the public. end of line. anything they perceive as a threat to their version of reality will be assimilated or eradicated. Yep. it's a shame Colonel sold the IMDB to that fooker Bezos whose part of this elite who want to control everything [along with Zuckerberg]
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2017 20:33:12 GMT
Honestly, I think giving each and every film, TV show, actor, and whatnot its own individual board may have been a mistake in hindsight. There are literally millions of each, which had thousands of people commenting on them all every day. That's a lot of a forum administration to keep an eye on and I get the feeling one of the reasons it closed is because they were overwhelmed. They could have probably just closed down the individual film boards, but left the main ones, and had been fine. But... they went the lazy route instead of trying to work something more manageable out with their user-base. I could have lived with going to one of the Genre boards or the Film General board to discuss things.
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Post by troliusmaximus on Apr 17, 2017 8:44:58 GMT
It's simple, they didnt make any money with it. Thats not hard to understand. Money is always a factor in everything, within a human society that is afflicted with terminal greed. However, if all they wanted was cash, they would have just sequestered the message boards to IMDb Pro -or- started charging for the applicable level of membership ( i.e., the erstwhile standard, free membership / message board access). By shutting the boards down wholesale, and even erasing the forum's posts, they gave the game away about their reasoning behind the move: they (read: TPTB) did not like the content the message boards housed and promoted, and so they got rid of it.
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Post by medjay on Apr 17, 2017 13:38:47 GMT
It's simple, they didnt make any money with it. Thats not hard to understand. Money is always a factor in everything, within a human society that is afflicted with terminal greed. However, if all they wanted was cash, they would have just sequestered the message boards to IMDb Pro -or- started charging for the applicable level of membership ( i.e., the erstwhile standard, free membership / message board access). By shutting the boards down wholesale, and even erasing the forum's posts, they gave the game away about their reasoning behind the move: they (read: TPTB) did not like the content the message boards housed and promoted, and so they got rid of it.We had terminal greed for thousands of years an we are still around.
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Post by SinisterCreep on Apr 18, 2017 6:00:10 GMT
It's simple, they didnt make any money with it. Thats not hard to understand. Money is always a factor in everything, within a human society that is afflicted with terminal greed. However, if all they wanted was cash, they would have just sequestered the message boards to IMDb Pro -or- started charging for the applicable level of membership ( i.e., the erstwhile standard, free membership / message board access). By shutting the boards down wholesale, and even erasing the forum's posts, they gave the game away about their reasoning behind the move: they (read: TPTB) did not like the content the message boards housed and promoted, and so they got rid of it.There's no doubt about that.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2017 2:30:31 GMT
MY gut tells me the level of doxxing on the boards were so bad IMDb feared that they could be sued for not moderating their boards because they were to cheep to spend money on admins.
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Post by troliusmaximus on Apr 22, 2017 13:08:09 GMT
We had terminal greed for thousands of years an we are still around. What ― are you implying that the few thousand years "we've" been here amounts to an infinitesimal nothingness, compared to the vastness of what actually exists...?
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Apr 22, 2017 14:32:26 GMT
It was forced from the shadows by blood-drinking, shape-shifting reptilian Illuminati aliens who live in the center of the hollow Earth.
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Post by gromel on Apr 23, 2017 3:23:18 GMT
The trolls?
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 23, 2017 3:46:42 GMT
It was forced from the shadows by blood-drinking, shape-shifting reptilian Illuminati aliens who live in the center of the hollow Earth. That's the answer. Uh-huh, yup, definitely. Question is, why didn't I think of it before? Oh, I know why: the core-of-hollow-Earth-residing, blood-drinking, shape-shifting reptilian Illuminati aliens controlled my mind and stopped me from thinking about it. Gotta be it. Is there any likelier answer? I think not!
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Apr 23, 2017 4:08:20 GMT
It was forced from the shadows by blood-drinking, shape-shifting reptilian Illuminati aliens who live in the center of the hollow Earth. That's the answer. Uh-huh, yup, definitely. Question is, why didn't I think of it before? Oh, I know why: the core-of-hollow-Earth-residing, blood-drinking, shape-shifting reptilian Illuminati aliens controlled my mind and put the thought out of it. Gotta be it. Is there any likelier answer? I think not! There's no evidence to prove they exist. But there's also no evidence to prove that they don't. It's all connected, MAN!
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 23, 2017 4:11:27 GMT
That's the answer. Uh-huh, yup, definitely. Question is, why didn't I think of it before? Oh, I know why: the core-of-hollow-Earth-residing, blood-drinking, shape-shifting reptilian Illuminati aliens controlled my mind and put the thought out of it. Gotta be it. Is there any likelier answer? I think not! There's no evidence to prove they exist. But there's also no evidence to prove that they don't. It's all connected, MAN! It's the aliens, MAN, the aliens! They're after us, controlling out every move! Don't trust the police, the government, or even your friends and family! They're all in on the conspiracy, MAN! I'm using too many exclamation marks, MAN! I'm waiting for my English teachers from high school to track me down and stop me from using them.... MAN! (Oh, good Lord. I actually knew a person who spoke like this and believed this stuff. I'm not joking, God help us.)
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