Missing Message Board Pages
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Jean Seberg
fordraff — 15 years ago(February 21, 2011 09:37 PM)
As I write this, there is only one page of Message Board material available for Jean Seberg. What happened to the other pages that were here in the past? I found nothing objectionable about any of the material on those pages, but now they are gone. I had two posts on those pages, one asking for information about Jean's older brother and one asking for some information on Jean's high school drama teacher. Now they and all the other posts are gone. WHY?
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Ashley Pomeroy — 14 years ago(July 07, 2011 12:23 PM)
"I had two posts on those pages, one asking for information about Jean's older brother and one asking for some information on Jean's high school drama teacher."
It's possible the IMDb deleted the pages because they were full of invitations to post details about living people, such as I dunno, Jean Seberg's older brother and her high school drama teacher.
And also creepy "appreciations", which puts me in mind of those porn boards where men ejaculate onto photographs of models, and post the results on the internet for other men to look at. "Appreciations". I've always wondered what the appeal of that was; it doesn't even work as a kind of freak show.
See, most film fans are normal people, but a minority can't distinguish between the things they see on the screen and real life - often they have very little experience of real life - and furthermore they can't understand that actors and actresses are professionals doing a job, rather than living embodiments of the characters they portray. This is one of the reasons, perhaps the main reason, why actors and actresses rarely ever use internet message boards, the IMDB included; although this lack of interaction has the negative side-effect of making the stars seem even more alien and distant, less human.
Ultimately this is why famous people often end up lonely and alienated from society, and why they tend to only marry other famous people. The ones who make a fortune can at least console themselves with hired companionship; the ones whose careers fizzle out, and that includes Jean Seberg, end up staring at a lonely old age with no work, no future, nothing to look forward to except for thirty years of tears and regrets. -
DC1977 — 14 years ago(August 17, 2011 04:00 AM)
That's all very poetic but I'm curious about some of your comments.
Are you claiming to be part of the normal majority of film fans or the abnormal minority?
Most of what you write seems to suggest that you want to be seen to belong with the majority but your bizarre comment about porn boards (something I've even never heard of) gives me pause.