OT: IMDB "HOUSECLEANING"
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snsurone — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 11:41 AM)
Why the hell should I take civility for weakness?
And I've seen the recent posts between you and "derWreck"; if it's not an e-war, then I don't know what is!
And your complaint about OT threads can be aimed at many more people than me.
For example, the OP of the "blitz" thread! -
dalbrech — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 11:56 AM)
Real problem is IMDB is too cheap to hire enough people to properlty mod the boards.
They do bookmark certain pages on IMDB to monitor,and purge those boards on a regular basis. They seem to be purging the "Hidden Figures" board daily because of the number of racist threads on that board. And the racism of a lot those posts are beyond question to a rational person. -
hobnob53 — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 07:48 PM)
Thank you for the compliment, snsurone, but I don't think you have anything to worry about. As I believe dalbrech said, IMDb doesn't have the staff or inclination to monitor and purge posters. Individual posts may be flagged or deleted, and once in a while a troll or chronic abuser is shut down, but not entire lots of posters, and certainly not as part of some wholesale purge.
Most of us go overboard sometimes. If IMDb were to get rid of everybody for some real or imagined offense or other transgression, these boards would have one big "Vacancy" sign on them. -
JeffersonCody — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 11:48 PM)
but I don't think you have anything to worry about. As I believe dalbrech said, IMDb doesn't have the staff or inclination to monitor and purge posters. Individual posts may be flagged or deleted, and once in a while a troll or chronic abuser is shut down, but not entire lots of posters, and certainly not as part of some wholesale purge.
Most of us go overboard sometimes. If IMDb were to get rid of everybody for some real or imagined offense or other transgression, these boards would have one big "Vacancy" sign on them.
Hobnob53 - There is one heck of a big difference between "going overboard" and deunkenly, venomously wishing death upon a popular and beloved veteran actress because she has passionate, humanistic political views which the poster (snu) is not even intellectually or emotionally capable of understanding. Fact is, what this silly, shallow woman said borders on hate speech, and is, frankly, despicable.
Snusrone is not a good person, and the fact that she is now running around serial reporting anyone and everyone who dared to call her out for what she said makes her sins even worse, and points to a lack of character and decency. Her lack of remorse for her vile actions and utterings is even more disgraceful.
That she was probably loaded up on red wine and drunk at the time does not excuse her vile actions. Hell, she even took me off ignore long enough to report me.
You should be ashamed of yourself for propping up snsurone and trying to make her feel better about herself in her attention seeking, self pitying post.
I thought you were a better person than that Hobnob. (smile emoticon) Or perhaps you really do think many a fine tune is played on an old violin and you still have the hots for snu. -
Iridescent_Phantom — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 02:53 AM)
The IMDb regularly purges old posts, especially those on the Politics Board.
All of my posts from that board prior to last year are gone, but so what, I don't read them anymore and neither does anyone else. Posts on the CFB, FG and other movie boards vanish after about two years.
Posts from the specific title boards still remain from the day I joined the IMDb, and some of those haven't had additional input for years.
If you are worried about your prior posts (film reviews, newly discovered information, etc.) make a copy of your work. Many do. Otherwise, look to the future.
We are the makers of music ad we are the dreamers of dreams. -
PoliticallyIncorrectone — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 05:54 AM)
There are some posters that I know have died, yet I still find their posts on IMDB. Not on the politics board however. I will not reveal their names, as I miss their intelligent, sometimes funny remarks, and would hate to see them be deleted.
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snsurone — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 06:20 AM)
Thank you all for your kind words.
As hob said, we all tend to go overboard sometimes, and as I said in the OP, tension is especially high in the US these days.
IMDb does expunge whole threads, usually to keep the page count down.
That makes me sad, because I have had some fascinating conversations with people on other boards (especially GWTW).
I confess that I started some of those threads.
And sometimes, when I do check old threads, I find that numerous posts had "been deleted by an administrator."
That's what led me to believe that some posters have been suspended or banned.
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alan_ryder — 9 years ago(January 30, 2017 06:46 PM)
I wish folks would just stick to movies. There are plenty of venues for other subjects. Then they wouldn't have to worry so much about profanity and name calling. Although I have been continually surprised at how worked up people get over movies. I always thought it was shills for competing movies and maybe some enemies of cast members. I know Hollywood and the film industry itself can get pretty mean. Personally I've mostly just ignored things about movies I didn't see and don't care to and ones I didn't like. I will rarely if ever will post a negative comment, maybe just question something. So if anything I hope they eliminate all the non cinema categories as they seem to bleed over into the movie ones. I find it irritating to see political rants in among movie discussions.
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Alex_Hurricane_Higgins — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 08:40 AM)
It happens often on Film General where some innocent posters have their history wiped or even deleted. That being said you aren't so innocent with those comments about wishing Vanessa Redgrave dead and then having the cheek to report the posters who correctly called you out on it.
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Aloysius_von_der_Trenck — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 11:45 AM)
with those comments about wishing Vanessa Redgrave dead and then having the cheek to report the posters who correctly called you out on it.
I was one of them. I had seldom been so insulted (and coarsely to make it worse) and even threatened, not even on the Politics Board, where I posted for a while years ago. Then there was the other guy who called Vanessa Redgrave a "Nazi" (she, who has always been a left-wing militant, even a radical!!), a baiter and a troll who did the same: report, insult, defame, etc. And snsurone "thanked" him for it (for calling Redgrave a "Nazi").
Fortunately, snsurone realised the kind of person he is and slowed down and even broke off. He lost his only "friend", with whom he wasn't very nice either. What a bitter guy, really.
Not a single post of mine has been "deleted by an administrator" in a very long time (years),, which shows the credibility of those who reported me or say they did, because reporting (especially false or unfair reporting) is a double-edged sword and has cost some posters their entire posting history, which was deleted. And they know this, the guy by personal experience. -
Alex_Hurricane_Higgins — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 05:07 PM)
I saw it mate. I took a break from IMDB and saw JeffersonCody's comments so checked her history and sure enough came across it. The worst thing is I don't get the feeling snsurone is trolling but rather she means it which makes it all the more disturbing.
The other guy I'm assuming you mean HenryTheKing? He's like me in that we can be serious users with the odd bit of trolling here and there but not the trolling that wishes death on people for their politics. -
Aloysius_von_der_Trenck — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 07:48 PM)
Wishing death is much worse, of course, but insulting Vanessa Redgrave repeatedly and calling her "Nazi", as "Henrey"/"Henery" did is pretty serious too, like calling me "anti-Semitic as* simply because I complained. One of the problems this guy has is that he seems unable to control his tongue.
He just stalked me and came to a thread just to disparage me.
http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/265540782?d=265628731#265628731
. I could never even think of stalking "Henrey" or anyone else, look at his profile, choose one of his posts on Film General or wherever and go there just to disrupt, attack and insult. Out of respect for that board, the OP and the other posters of the thread. Also out of respect for myself.
To call Vanessa Redgrave a Nazi, someone who "saw" Nazi bombs falling over her home in Greenwich, London, when she was a kid, and who later became a left wing militant for all her life, is not only insulting, but stupid, false and inaccurate. Simply because she is anti-Zionistic and criticised some of the State of Israel's policies. But hundreds of thousands of Jews (including some very good friends of mine in London and New York) ARE anti-Zionists and critical of some of Israel's policies, so what? And to confuse anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is sheer ignorance or bad faith. -
amyghost — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 04:43 AM)
A remark an old family friend made more than once was:
'always beware the Gentile who likes to use the phrase anti-Semitic a lot. It almost always means they've got something to hide.'
For some reason I get a distinct feeling this could apply to 'Henrey' pretty aptly.
50 Is The New Cutoff Age. -
Aloysius_von_der_Trenck — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 10:59 AM)
Yes, I agree with both paragraphs.
"Henrey" is a teen or someone with the mental age of a teen. He just wrote
Get a hobby, get a life and if you can't, take your medicines.
I have come across hundreds of teens on Internet fora and message boards writing EXACTLY that, those very words, it's almost a cut-and-paste job. A stereotyped phrase, a cheap cliché.
It's not only that, he keeps giving himself away and he is so naïve or so idiotic that he doesn't seem to realise it. For more details, see my last reply on the THE NAKED JUNGLE thread, which he invaded after stalking me without the slightest respect for the thread, the OP, the subject and the posters who were there.
I wonder: why doesn't he go to The Watercooler? There he could play with MEQ and other people