Our voices will be heard, 2600 signatures +
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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.