Posted on 02/03/2017 11:01:30 AM PST by Borges
IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb's message boards on February 20, 2017. This includes the Private Message system. After in-depth discussion and examination, we have concluded that IMDb's message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide. The decision to retire a long-standing feature was made only after careful consideration and was based on data and traffic.
Increasingly, IMDb customers have migrated to IMDb's social media accounts as the primary place they choose to post comments and communicate with IMDb's editors and one another. IMDb's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/imdb) and official Twitter account (https://twitter.com/imdb) have an audience of more than 10 million engaged fans. IMDb also maintains official accounts on Snapchat (https://www.snapchat.com/add/imdblive), Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/imdbofficial/), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/imdb), and Tumblr (http://imdb.tumblr.com/).
Because IMDb's message boards continue to be utilized by a small but passionate community of IMDb users, we announced our decision to disable our message boards on February 3, 2017 but will leave them open for two additional weeks so that users will have ample time to archive any message board content they'd like to keep for personal use. During this two-week transition period, which concludes on February 19, 2017, IMDb message board users can exchange contact information with any other board users they would like to remain in communication with (since once we shut down the IMDb message boards, users will no longer be able to send personal messages to one another). We regret any disappointment or frustration IMDb message board users may experience as a result of this decision.
IMDb is passionately committed to providing innovative ways for our hundreds of millions of users to engage and communicate with one another. We will continue to enhance our current offerings and launch new features in 2017 and beyond that will help our customers communicate and express themselves in meaningful ways while leveraging emerging technologies and opportunities.
No I mean all sorts of crew and the music used etc. Wiki generally just lists the credited cast and a handful of the main behind the scenes people.
That’s one way to shut down conservatives and bad reviews. Many sites have done this. You used to be able to post on Yahoo News all day long but not so much now.
Plus, with twitter and fb, they can identify you, your family and friends. Hello, Big Brother.
Not to mention you can’t ask an open ended question on Facebook. It’s only visible to people who would see your page or who are on a given comment thread.
I know. IMDBs credits are much more thorough. But again those aren’t the people I’m saying “where do I know them from”, and that thoroughness decreases readability. And they aren’t always that accurate. Had a discussion with William Malone (Parasomnia, House on Haunted Hill remake) about that last year, IMDB insists we was in Incredible Hulk Returns, he was not, but they won’t remove him, he’s tried multiple times to get them to correct it but they won’t. So take those deep listing with some salt.
The reviews will still be there. You just won’t be able to interact with other users.
This is happening on a lot of sites for many different reasons.
Where the Comments Sections Are Going
https://turbofuture.com/internet/Where-the-Comments-Sections-Are-Going
My frustration is their belief that everything must be political, there is no subject or topic that isn’t political. So they inject politics into EVERYTHING.
The scifi conventions and awards are an example of this. Can’t we just enjoy Dr. Who without being lectured on his white male privilege (and a Lord no less)? Or talk about great classic scifi authors without using diversity as a metric?
I agree. You can bet this about being able to mine information for advertisers more readily. The message boards are ad free. My daughter for one will be annoyed. I find the discussion boards handy too when deciding whether to rent a movie.
Most all message boards have digressed into some very nasty comments and name calling. Sometimes one or two people get into it and the message board becomes a sounding board for them to the exclusivity of others
FTA: “... is passionately committed to providing innovative ways for our hundreds of millions of users to engage and communicate with one another.”
This means they do not want to hear from you!
We enjoy checking imdb for locations where something was shot.
I didn’t even know they had message boards.
I long ago stopped using IMDb in favor of the Wikipedia. The latter does a much better job on movies.
While I rarely commented, I really enjoyed some of the information and opinions offered on movies in general.
This is a bad move in a number of ways. IMBD is a great resource and they are moving in a negative direction.
Yeah, I would mostly go there for the message boards (esp for classic films and actors, and the politics forum which I enjoyed!)...without it, I won’t miss the site at all.
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