Posted on 02/03/2017 9:54:45 AM PST by Teflonic
IMDb Message Boards Announcement
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.
i don’t understand why conservatives don’t start competition for this, and for social websites like Twitter, FB, etc etc etc! I’m tired of having the Left take away my communication with others.
This is not a free speech issue.
I’m going to miss the “Doesn’t anyone think he/she looks like *insert name of actor that looks nothing like this person*” posts.
That doesn’t help if you are avoiding Facebook to deny traffic to the enemy, though.
THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR FREE REPUBLIC!!!!!!!!!!!!
JIMROB WE LIKE CAPITALISM HERE!
Just quit contributing to the enemy. Every dollar you spend on going to see a movie, rent a movie, buy a movie, your cable TV bill, etc. goes to support these people that are directly opposed to your view points and, quite frankly, hate you. Why would you give them your money? If you insist on watching movies, then use something like bittorrent to stream movies for free and deny them the funds. #BoycottHollywood
The “100 Things I Learned from ____________” threads are usually pretty funny and good for Mystery Science Theater 3000-level snark and sarcasm.
Like others, I hope someone creates a good alternative site with message boards.
Don’t ‘get it’.
IMDB is shutting down the boards so why is Amazon to blame?
IMDB, apparently, wants people to use the FB page that generates ad revenue- advertisers rule the internet after all.
How about the “parental guide”?
I use it to see if I think it is a movie I can stomach or not.
Looks like a great opportunity to start one like it to take it’s place.
Rotten tomatoes has a message board:
http://forum.rottentomatoes.com/
There’s also a link to a subforum for each film on the film’s review page.
You are correct. Money talks. Dollars are economic votes. The left is doing a good job with their boycott campaigns. It’s a shame conservatives can’t take a page from their playbook. We can’t boycott every single form of entertainment, or every single department store, but we can certainly make an example of a few isolated targets.
What is the connection between Amazon and IMBd?
Here is a link to the message board:
http://www.imdb.com/boards/?ref_=nv_cm_bd_1
Where is the Amazon connection?
Nevermind. Cancel my question. A quick look answered it for me.
What happened? did a few normal people post something that made a few snowflakes melt?
Amazon bought out the IMDb boards about a decade ago.
I don’t give Hollywood one red cent, there are other ways to consume the content they put out.
Can you elaborate?
Thanks
Thanks.
NPR and many online websites for newspapers did this. I think it must be a good way to exclude generally older more conservative folks who don’t do social media but did do anonymous message boards and forums.
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