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Post by marshamae on Feb 19, 2017 20:54:21 GMT
Well I was respinding to a comment on the classic film board and all the threads disappeared. Glad I got to look at the final Garth Game monthly report. Typical to cut us off a day early.
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Post by Nalkarj on Feb 19, 2017 21:09:46 GMT
Well I was respinding to a comment on the classic film beard and all the threads disappeared. Glad I got to look at the final Garth Game monthly report. Typical to cut us off a day early. Interesting. IMDb Boards are still working for me at the moment. Will see if it goes off any time soon. |
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Post by jrdmln on Feb 19, 2017 22:18:48 GMT
IMDB is still working for me, but I do have to refresh the page about 3 times quite a bit to open a message board or read a post. It started doing that about a week ago, but it has gotten worse the last few days. I guess IMDB no longer cares to make sure their message boards are working since they are disconnecting them tomorrow. I hope that IMDB doesn't start disconnecting the message boards today. I hope that they wait until tomorrow to start doing that.
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Post by MCDemuth on Feb 19, 2017 23:23:04 GMT
IMDB is still working for me, but I do have to refresh the page about 3 times quite a bit to open a message board or read a post. It started doing that about a week ago, but it has gotten worse the last few days. I guess IMDB no longer cares to make sure their message boards are working since they are disconnecting them tomorrow. I hope that IMDB doesn't start disconnecting the message boards today. I hope that they wait until tomorrow to start doing that. Yeah, I frequently get error messages when I visit IMDb, too. I have heard some people are closing accounts... and when they do that all of their posts get deleted. Maybe the system is having trouble with that. |
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Post by kijii on Feb 20, 2017 0:35:45 GMT
It's down now.
I just joined here today.
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Post by geode on Feb 20, 2017 0:41:01 GMT
It's down now. I just joined here today. Yeah, I noticed all was gone half an hour ago. |
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Post by marshamae on Feb 20, 2017 0:52:41 GMT
Just went on , and even the list of message boards is gone. Oddly, I'm still logged in. I guess I can post reviews or try improving trivia listed at the end of each films credits. Also sound track information.
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Post by gunshotwound on Feb 20, 2017 1:15:03 GMT
I just checked over at IMDn and everything is gone.
I still have my account and I am still checked in. My profile shows everything it has always shown except for my posting history.
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Post by MiketheMechanic on Feb 20, 2017 1:20:48 GMT
I hope we'll be able to most of the CFB on this forum.
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Post by jrdmln on Feb 20, 2017 2:06:35 GMT
Too bad they closed the message boards this evening. They should have waited until tomorrow. I was going to read a few of the message boards on IMDB one last time this evening. I wish that they had been specific about what time they were closing the message boards.
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Post by marshamae on Feb 20, 2017 2:16:51 GMT
I know. I feel like we were on the titanic and it sunk three hours early.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 2:21:39 GMT
I'm an IMDB transplant too! I had just checked a post about Sherlock Holmes, and poof, it was gone, just like that. Tragic. It was the only reason I went there.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Feb 20, 2017 6:57:21 GMT
Why IMDb should rethink the decision to close its message boardsEmma Thorpe is a social media administrator who regularly checks in with the boards for a particular film after viewing it. Once the boards have been disbanded, Thorpe wonders whether she’ll have a reason to use the site at all; citing IMDb’s insistence that conversations will, and already have, migrated to social media as disingenuous. “It won’t work. Comments will get lost in the noise.” Echoing others, Thorpe added: “There is a definite sense of community on the boards. You won’t be able to use the site in the same way.”
=== Dan L began an online petition to save the boards, currently at just under 10,000 signatures. He suspects the invocation of trolls is little more than a smokescreen. He believes the real reason is a combination of much lower user numbers than IMDb is publicising, and the way in which the boards and ratings are being exploited. “They make bold claims such as 250 million monthly users worldwide. If IMDb really had 250 million users how come the movie with the most ratings, Shawshank Redemption, only has 1.7m votes? I don’t see how they can have 3.3% of the world’s population regularly using the site.” There is also the issue of user ratings and boards being exploited to make a film seem as if it was more warmly received than it might have been, via ratings from false accounts. Dan uses the 2016 film Beta Test as an example of a fraudulently rated film in which half of the film’s apparent viewers have rated it a 9 or a 10, though the “top voters” (those with accounted for and regularly active accounts) have only rated it an average of 4.6. “The message boards have become a liability in terms of their credibility, and this might lead to less companies wanting to advertise with them.” One of the more disappointing aspects of the boards’ closure, he believes, is the lack of consultation of IMDb’s users, especially as the website relies so heavily on them providing the trivia and information.
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Post by alexhurricanehiggins on Feb 20, 2017 14:05:25 GMT
Welcome
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