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Thread started 02/05/17 10:15pm

dance4me3121

IMDB closing down their Message Boards on Feb 20

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As a regular user of the IMDB movie site,I am sad and dissapointed that they have decided to close down their message boards.I usually use it to talk with other fans about TV shows and movies. Now I don't really know where I'll go to do that.
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Reply #1 posted 02/05/17 11:07pm

Kara

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dance4me3121 said:

Now I don't really know where I'll go to do that.

My favorite... http://forums.previously....m/5-shows/
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Reply #2 posted 02/06/17 12:36am

kpowers

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dance4me3121 said:

[img]https://s30.postimg.....png[/img] As a regular user of the IMDB movie site,I am sad and dissapointed that they have decided to close down their message boards.I usually use it to talk with other fans about TV shows and movies. Now I don't really know where I'll go to do that. [Edited 2/5/17 22:17pm] [Edited 2/5/17 22:19pm]

More time to talk to us instead

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Reply #3 posted 02/06/17 1:27am

EmmaMcG

I've never posted anything on imdb but I've gone on there a few times and read some comments and it seems like it's mostly made up of immature, over emotional trolls. Check the board for any Marvel or DC movie. All you get are DC fans saying Marvel is for kids and Marvel fans saying DC movies are shit because they don't make as much money as the Avengers. They also hope that movies from "the rival brand" fail for some reason. The board for any Star Wars movie is funny too. It's full of crap like "Snoke is just CGI, worst movie ever". So apparently having CGI in a movie set in space with aliens and giant planet/weapons makes it the worst movie ever. Worse than Ninja Dragon. Worse than Plan 9 from Outer Space. Worse than Batman and Robin. These are the same morons who rated Shawshank Redemption and The Godfather as 1 out of 10 in an attempt to position The Dark Knight as the number one movie in their ranking system.

It's unfortunate for the few legitimate users like dance4me3121 that the message boards are being shut down but like kpowers said, more time to talk to us.
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Reply #4 posted 02/06/17 2:53am

kpowers

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EmmaMcG said:

I've never posted anything on imdb but I've gone on there a few times and read some comments and it seems like it's mostly made up of immature, over emotional trolls. Check the board for any Marvel or DC movie. All you get are DC fans saying Marvel is for kids and Marvel fans saying DC movies are shit because they don't make as much money as the Avengers. They also hope that movies from "the rival brand" fail for some reason. The board for any Star Wars movie is funny too. It's full of crap like "Snoke is just CGI, worst movie ever". So apparently having CGI in a movie set in space with aliens and giant planet/weapons makes it the worst movie ever. Worse than Ninja Dragon. Worse than Plan 9 from Outer Space. Worse than Batman and Robin. These are the same morons who rated Shawshank Redemption and The Godfather as 1 out of 10 in an attempt to position The Dark Knight as the number one movie in their ranking system. It's unfortunate for the few legitimate users like dance4me3121 that the message boards are being shut down but like kpowers said, more time to talk to us.

Couldn't say it better so I let you

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Reply #5 posted 02/06/17 4:57am

Abdul

One less site I'll be on now biggrin
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Reply #6 posted 02/06/17 7:40am

KingBAD

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EmmaMcG said:

I've never posted anything on imdb but I've gone on there a few times and read some comments and it seems like it's mostly made up of immature, over emotional trolls. Check the board for any Marvel or DC movie. All you get are DC fans saying Marvel is for kids and Marvel fans saying DC movies are shit because they don't make as much money as the Avengers. They also hope that movies from "the rival brand" fail for some reason. The board for any Star Wars movie is funny too. It's full of crap like "Snoke is just CGI, worst movie ever". So apparently having CGI in a movie set in space with aliens and giant planet/weapons makes it the worst movie ever. Worse than Ninja Dragon. Worse than Plan 9 from Outer Space. Worse than Batman and Robin. These are the same morons who rated Shawshank Redemption and The Godfather as 1 out of 10 in an attempt to position The Dark Knight as the number one movie in their ranking system. It's unfortunate for the few legitimate users like dance4me3121 that the message boards are being shut down but like kpowers said, more time to talk to us.

the thing is, the ones that speak of

have no idea you're speakin of them....

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

i am KING BAD!!!
you are NOT...
evilking
STOP ME IF YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE...
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Reply #7 posted 02/06/17 8:45am

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The right wing did it. All the hateful trolling.

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #8 posted 02/06/17 11:20am

damosuzuki

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The right wing did it. All the hateful trolling.

could be, but jerkiness knows no ideological boundaries in my experience, & most of the clutter i saw there was sort of adolescent rivalry stuff.

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i'll miss the boards there quite a bit. not that i posted much personally, but i often did see interesting insights & found good recommendations, and at least a few times people were able to give me the title of a film based on a scene i vaguely remembered from when i was a kid.

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you had to filter out a lot of noise to find what you wanted, but that's pretty much just like real life, isn't it?

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Reply #9 posted 02/06/17 12:56pm

kpowers

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2freaky4church1 said:

The right wing did it. All the hateful trolling.

And the left wingers for sure

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Reply #10 posted 02/06/17 5:11pm

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2freaky4church1 said:

The right wing did it. All the hateful trolling.



Yep, they constantly flooded the forums of any movie with a diverse cast or female lead (Star Wars, Ghostbusters etc) with white, male supremacy.

It was still a great place to post about obscure movies and less popular tv shows, and there was a forum for every title ever. This is very unfortunate. I wish they could at least leave the archives up, everytime I watched a vintage title I never previously heard of I would go to the forum and see what people were saying, I will greatly miss that. confused

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Reply #11 posted 02/07/17 12:26pm

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I would bet they just don't want to pay people to moderate those boards against all the spam and porn that gets posted, they could give a rat's tail about the trolls, the trolls have been there for a very long time and not one thing as ever been done about it.

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Reply #12 posted 02/07/17 4:30pm

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The gamergate crazies.

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #13 posted 02/07/17 6:21pm

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Although I'm a pretty frequent visitor of IMDB, i never really went too deep within the Message Board. Usually just the first few comments of a thread. Its still disappointing though(and i think, a mistake).

Rest in Peace Bettie Boo. See u soon.
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Reply #14 posted 02/08/17 7:44pm

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Hudson said:

. I wish they could at least leave the archives up, everytime I watched a vintage title I never previously heard of I would go to the forum and see what people were saying, I will greatly miss that. confused

They are erasing all the old messages too? damn!

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Reply #15 posted 02/08/17 9:52pm

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THIS SUCKS. I always check those message boards for crazy opinions and sometimes interesting facts or connections about movies or TV shows I'm checking out. mad

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