IMDb eliminating its message boards

I watched "The Barefoot Contessa" the other night on TCM. I went to IMDB afterwards to see about the cars in the movie and found out that the reason the Count's car was right hand drive was so the driver could see the edge of the road when driving in the mountains. A good piece of information I got from their message boards.

After seeing a movie a lot of times I go to IMDB to see what an actor has been in before to see why they looked familiar and then a lot of times I would go to the message boards to see what people had to say. Yes there are a lot of "this movie sucks" "you suck" threads on there but there were also some good threads as well. I am going to miss it.

Chad

 

Ironically I hardly ever posted there.
But, found the information on the message boards film related invaluable.
Closure ?
Bad day at bad rock, indeed.

 

Boy, the bastards couldn't even wait until it was the 20th everywhere. I've been browsing movies on IMDb for about half an hour, and up until a few minutes ago the message boards were there. Not anymore...

 

I very rarely go on IMDB. But it's still ridiculous that they had to choose today to shut down instead of tomorrow.

 

Right now it's past 12:01AM in the UK.

(CEO is from the UK - so even though it's a subsidiary of Amazon, it's still listed as a private company. So I guess the CEO is running it on GMT time)

 

They just shut down about an hour ago..or at least that was when I checked..

 

In my experience IMDB did a terrible job of moderating its message boards. When the Baz Luhrmann version of The Great Gatsby came out, there was one poster who started about five separate threads on that movie's message board asking if there was any "making of" footage of the car accident in which Myrtle Wilson is killed. I searched for other content by this person and 95% of his posts were related to the death scenes of female characters. I reported the poster to IMDB with numerous links to the threads this obviously disturbed individual had started. Never heard anything back and they didn't take down any of the posts.

 

Same thing with the troll I was bringing up previously, who said things like "sh!t for brains" and "**** breath". IMDB did NOTHING to stop him. They just let him go about his merry way like he did nothing wrong.

Oh, well. After last Friday, I'm never seeing him again.

 

I was more offended by what Baz Luhrmann did to The Great Gatsby

 

What a weirdo

 

Biggest load of crap ever on screen.

 

Couldn't they have just have wiped the the slate, reopened it with troll bashing moderators? A better option.

 

Why IMDb should rethink the decision to close its message boards

 

One quotee said "the message boards were at one point the only social outlet I had." Seems like IMDB might be doing that person a favor.

 

Good article.
Messages left tell the story.

 

RIP.

 

Indeed. I miss it already. It's going to be tough to kick the habit of looking up a movie/actor and scrolling to the bottom for some information from the message board section.

I'd like to say I'm not going to use the site any longer, but it's not true. I'll still use it to look up actors in films/shows and other info about them.

Sigh...

 

I almost never used the message boards, and on the rare times that I did check them out, they were beyond useless.
They certainly won't be missed by me.

 

What did the message boards offer? The website is there for information- that's the purpose of it. The message boards didn't seem to offer anything constructive.

 

To you.

 

But what if he ends up HERE instead?

 

He'd fit in well.

 

I've seen people posting around the Internet that the reason they closed the boards was because they couldn't figure out how to monetize them. If they wanted to monetize the boards, couldn't they just have put up ads?

 

You could have "never seen him again" right away just by blocking him.

Yeah, that was the first thing I did too anytime I looked up a movie or actress or actor. You could try using Wikipedia instead for the basic movie stat stuff. I think I will.