Our voices will be heard, 2600 signatures +
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Seth_Rogue_One — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 03:54 PM)
7839 signatures whooptiewhoop
If IMDB themselves made a poll of course the number would be greater than that, it's still pretty good for someone with 28 friends on facebook and 12 followers on twitter.
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-to-keep-the-imdb-messageboards-going# -
Seth_Rogue_One — 9 years ago(February 10, 2017 02:23 AM)
Thank you
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-to-keep-the-imdb-messageboards-going# -
Burningfire78 — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 08:29 PM)
I don't want the boards to go away.
But if they do have any you tried some of the other sites? Not as good as IMDB but at least you can have discussions with other people. Here are some of them.
http://nytramsplace.activeboard.com/
http://area51.boardhost.com/
http://thegotboard.com/
http://imdb2.freeforums.net/
https://www.imdforums.com/
My guess is if enough people from IMDB sigh up for these sites they will only get better. If you like message boards it is better than nothing. -
MetalCup — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 09:02 PM)
Signed and promoted it in few places. I will keep posting this petition. Informing people about it.
I went to a couple of active boards about TV shows or movies and I let people know. Everyone who love these boards should do same.
If they close these boards, this will go down as one of the stupidest decision in web management history. Up there with friendster.com decision to become a gaming website and removing actual active users contents.
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Seth_Rogue_One — 9 years ago(February 10, 2017 02:22 AM)
Excellent thank you very much for that
And yeah, I've started to wonder if perhaps there is a connection between false ratings and reviews that have caused IMDB's credibility to fall a bit and if the real reason of deleting the boards is to stop people from calling the filmmakers out (and subsequently IMDB themselves) for it.
It's not allowed to post peoples personal emails here and stuff so I'm playing it safe in terms of that, the creator is a public figure though so I can name him it's Col Needham he does have a facebook and a twitter and google etc which can be find via a simple search.
Although he's still a CEO for IMDB he is no longer the proper owner as Amazon bought it up 2 years ago, Jeff Bezos is the owner of Amazon (again a public figure).
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-to-keep-the-imdb-messageboards-going# -
tidalwaves1 — 9 years ago(February 10, 2017 03:14 AM)
I signed the petition. Even if it doesn't work it never hurts to try. Like other people have said I think this is a stupid decision and it's leaving a lot of people disappointed. I've used the boards for years, and have always loved getting to see what other people thought about a movie & sharing thoughts & opinions. Can't believe they're taking that away. Yeah- you can use other sites I guess, but it won't be the same.
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Seth_Rogue_One — 9 years ago(February 12, 2017 06:53 AM)
Yeah that would help, I put it in my signature everyone is free to do the same
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chimera-21 — 9 years ago(February 12, 2017 12:40 PM)
IMDB will reverse this policy eventually because of loss of traffic. They don't care about the people, but they most assuredly care about "traffic". While I doubt the boards account for the majority of traffic almost everyone who comes here does so knowing they can check the boards, and they do so from time to time. With the boards gone their visits will be drastically reduced, even if they were not hitting the boards every time. IMDB will lose traffic. Advertisers will demand lower rates. Advertising dollars will shrink. Suits will panic and piss down their skinny legs and then they will be screaming at underlings about "Whose idea was it to close the boards!!!?>?!?!?!"
It'll take a year or two, though, and by then people will have found other places to frequent. Old habits broken and new habits formed and IMDB will probably never fully recover their traffic. Sad, considering all they actually had to do was put in place a basic mod staff from the free ranks of their own users. Oh well. -
WhoisThePrisoner1 — 9 years ago(February 12, 2017 07:45 PM)
The bottom line is that Amazon and the movie industry doesn't want their garbage movies being trashed and exposed by the TRUTH on IMDB boards, user reviews and ratings. The IMDB boards "central hub" aspect was too powerful for them to control. Getting rid of the IMDB boards is just phase one. The fake concern about trolls, costs, etcwas simply a lie to shift the blame from Amazon/IMDB to the users themselves.
Amazon has done the math couldn't care less about losing "traffic" at IMDB. And they know that nothing will replace it anytime soon.
Amazon believes that everyone will simply accept going back to the days of a flashy trailer with a recognizable face being enough to keep the lazydumb masses wasting time on bad movies.