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Post by rmcrae on Mar 5, 2017 4:47:10 GMT
I don't find that to be that much of a problem. There were too many people to deal with in the IMDB board and some were getting douchey. yeah, that's the word -- douchey. Many people were nice and made areas nice to be around. some were asstwats. the asstwats were enough to make people leave or post rarely.
So true. Some boards from the original IMDB I enjoyed because there was little to no trolling were the Books, R&B/Soul and Music General boards. Little scuffles here and there on the last board, but very minor compared to the rest. Too often I'd see people get called every nasty name in the book and run off from other boards because they dared to disagree with what the majority said. Not just silly third grade name calling, but downright malicious insults. I don't know how they managed to sleep at night.
A few days ago a friend of mine sent me a link to another site where one of the worst trolls we'd experienced was posting and their account was deleted in a matter of days. They thought they could get away with their bullying elsewhere and clearly they thought wrong. I'm sure they're slithering around on another site somewhere, but that was a nice bit of karma that bit them in the bum...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2017 4:53:24 GMT
I don't find that to be that much of a problem. There were too many people to deal with in the IMDB board and some were getting douchey. yeah, that's the word -- douchey. Many people were nice and made areas nice to be around. some were asstwats. the asstwats were enough to make people leave or post rarely.
So true. Some boards from the original IMDB I enjoyed because there was little to no trolling were the Books, R&B/Soul and Music General boards. Little scuffles here and there on the last board, but very minor compared to the rest. Too often I'd see people get called every nasty name in the book and run off from other boards because they dared to disagree with what the majority said. Not just silly third grade name calling, but downright malicious insults. I don't know how they managed to sleep at night.
A few days ago a friend of mine sent me a link to another site where one of the worst trolls we'd experienced was posting and their account was deleted in a matter of days. They thought they could get away with their bullying elsewhere and clearly they thought wrong. I'm sure they're slithering around on another site somewhere, but that was a nice bit of karma that bit them in the bum...
I love that this site is actually moderated. People got away with way too much BS on IMDb. I'm enjoying this site quite a bit, and am hoping to see some of my favs from IMDb join here at some point.
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Post by rmcrae on Mar 5, 2017 4:59:10 GMT
So true. Some boards from the original IMDB I enjoyed because there was little to no trolling were the Books, R&B/Soul and Music General boards. Little scuffles here and there on the last board, but very minor compared to the rest. Too often I'd see people get called every nasty name in the book and run off from other boards because they dared to disagree with what the majority said. Not just silly third grade name calling, but downright malicious insults. I don't know how they managed to sleep at night.
A few days ago a friend of mine sent me a link to another site where one of the worst trolls we'd experienced was posting and their account was deleted in a matter of days. They thought they could get away with their bullying elsewhere and clearly they thought wrong. I'm sure they're slithering around on another site somewhere, but that was a nice bit of karma that bit them in the bum...
I love that this site is actually moderated. People got away with way too much BS on IMDb. I'm enjoying this site quite a bit, and am hoping to see some of my favs from IMDb join here at some point. Exactly. Too many times there were offensive posts that stayed up for eons while the ones that didn't break the rules were deleted in no time. Had the admins. on the old site actually moderated properly and nipped that crap in the bud early on, it would still be going.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 21:22:50 GMT
I think that there really wasn't as much traffic at imdb like we thought. So perhaps Col was correct?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 21:24:10 GMT
There's this site that is basically the new IMDB: www.themoviedb.org/It has message boards to every movie, TV show and actor like IMDB had. And they are making a lot of changes to accommodate ex-IMDM members. Now it has General Message Boards as well and it's gonna have a lot of new other features. Oh I hope that they don't add too many generic boards like this one has because people generally do not post in them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 21:32:43 GMT
I think a lot of people just gave up on just went on to other sites. We probably have a lot of lurkers too. I wish we had more people but there are certain people I thought might show up that havent that I am damn happy arent here. So many lurkers. One of my threads was viewed over 40 times and only 8 people replied. I noticed that with a lot of other poster's threads.
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Post by Harry Skywalker on Mar 8, 2017 22:16:14 GMT
There's this site that is basically the new IMDB: www.themoviedb.org/It has message boards to every movie, TV show and actor like IMDB had. And they are making a lot of changes to accommodate ex-IMDM members. Now it has General Message Boards as well and it's gonna have a lot of new other features. Oh I hope that they don't add too many generic boards like this one has because people generally do not post in them. The General Boards are the most used.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 22:17:29 GMT
Why do you think turnout is so low here? Never more than 80-90 members online at any time. Where'd everybody go? Are you sure you're not a sock?
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Post by MiketheMechanic on Mar 8, 2017 23:41:00 GMT
I think that there really wasn't as much traffic at imdb like we thought. So perhaps Col was correct? There were probably ten times as many lurkers over there as there are here. No doubt most of those who posted on IMDB on lurking on this forum; very few are actually posting.
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Post by Prelude on Mar 9, 2017 0:10:00 GMT
Several of the members I'd been friendly with on IMDb told me they weren't going to go to an alternative board after the closure, and they were resigned to just not posting anywhere anymore. Some took it as an opportunity to get back to their lives, yeah, lol!
It's sad though, because some of those people were assets to any board, good posters.
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Post by Two Socks on Mar 9, 2017 3:16:09 GMT
Large size does not equal a great board. Smaller can be better you know. I'm totally fine with the activity levels here. If posting was constant, how would I ever keep up?
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Post by mszanadu on Mar 9, 2017 3:34:53 GMT
Large size does not equal a great board. Smaller can be better you know. I'm totally fine with the activity levels here. If posting was constant, how would I ever keep up? I totally agree and perfectly put here also Two Socks . I also really like this board just way it is smaller and very well looked after too - unlike the Old IMDB . This new board is just perfect and wouldn't change a thing either ( unless it was positive changes and additions but otherwise - just right ! ) . PS - I really love your Wolf Avatar also Two Socks - so adorable yet powerful .
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Post by Two Socks on Mar 9, 2017 3:40:12 GMT
^ Yeah IMDB just got too big. I hadn't logged into my account for probably seven years because of it. Thanks for the compliments on the avatar; the picture was a lucky find online, and it actually resembles the wolf in the film.
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Post by medjay on Mar 9, 2017 8:30:18 GMT
Large size does not equal a great board. Smaller can be better you know. I'm totally fine with the activity levels here. If posting was constant, how would I ever keep up? I totally agree and perfectly put here also Two Socks . I also really like this board just way it is smaller and very well looked after too - unlike the Old IMDB . This new board is just perfect and wouldn't change a thing either ( unless it was positive changes and additions but otherwise - just right ! ) . PS - I really love your Wolf Avatar also Two Socks - so adorable yet powerful . I think there are to many sub boards making it bloated.
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Post by morfeus on Mar 9, 2017 10:35:34 GMT
Why do you think turnout is so low here? Never more than 80-90 members online at any time. Where'd everybody go? The old Imdb wasn't any better in its last year.
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Post by morfeus on Mar 9, 2017 10:38:28 GMT
There's this site that is basically the new IMDB: www.themoviedb.org/It has message boards to every movie, TV show and actor like IMDB had. And they are making a lot of changes to accommodate ex-IMDM members. Now it has General Message Boards as well and it's gonna have a lot of new other features. I don't really understand their design. Too artsy, too intellectual.
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Post by deembastille on Mar 9, 2017 11:24:33 GMT
Large size does not equal a great board. Smaller can be better you know. I'm totally fine with the activity levels here. If posting was constant, how would I ever keep up? I knew someone on the imdb full house board who would constantly reply to each and every person who talked to her WITHIN LITERAL SECONDS of them posting. I am serious -- literal seconds. often times she would not really read [comprehend] what the others were saying to her and she would misconstrued what was written/intended. and when you would give her the slow down suggestion. no. weird. and we would hear her complain about how her sister banned her from interaction with sister's toddler daughter because 'noread' yelled at her for making noise while noread was watching Frozen. yeh -- frozen.
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Post by inthepipe55 on Mar 9, 2017 13:28:41 GMT
Large size does not equal a great board. Smaller can be better you know. I'm totally fine with the activity levels here. If posting was constant, how would I ever keep up? I knew someone on the imdb full house board who would constantly reply to each and every person who talked to her WITHIN LITERAL SECONDS of them posting. I am serious -- literal seconds. often times she would not really read [comprehend] what the others were saying to her and she would misconstrued what was written/intended. and when you would give her the slow down suggestion. no. weird. and we would hear her complain about how her sister banned her from interaction with sister's toddler daughter because 'noread' yelled at her for making noise while noread was watching Frozen. yeh -- frozen. You talking about Hailey?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 13:57:00 GMT
Unfortunately, a lot of users have went to a similar site that opened way before the closure of IMDB boards which is called The Movie Database
That site has every film message boards and every actor name and now the admin will make a lot of improvements since so many people have registered.
I honestly believe that everyone will end up going to that site and it will grow very big because it's been into existence way before IMDB closed it's message boards.
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Post by MiketheMechanic on Mar 9, 2017 14:42:16 GMT
Unfortunately, a lot of users have went to a similar site that opened way before the closure of IMDB boards which is called The Movie Database That site has every film message boards and every actor name and now the admin will make a lot of improvements since so many people have registered. I honestly believe that everyone will end up going to that site and it will grow very big because it's been into existence way before IMDB closed it's message boards. While I'm happy to hear that the site has a lot of followers I don't believe everyone will migrate over there. I don't think there is a forum in existence where everyone will join. As for the mentioned site, went to visit but it looks confusing so didn't stay too long, sorry.
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