Fight the power!
Sign the petition!

Approaching 10k signatures and you can bet this is just a fraction of the users that will be angry and sad at the loss of the boards.
What the hell are they thinking.

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.

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.

Yeah that would help, I put it in my signature everyone is free to do the same
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-to-keep-the-imdb-messageboards-going#

just signed. this link should be promoted in all boards by every user

Signed!
''Never seen like shadow boxing in the dark''

so close yet so far.. 8k now. UGH.
Ya blew it. Kapeesh?

Signed!
Adopt~
Don't wake me, I plan on sleeping in

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.

"There are dozens of us! Dozens!"

8,900 NOW!!!!

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#

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.
Anyone knows how to send feedback to the CEO/ Manager or whatever of IMDb.com? Whats his/her email?

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.

I signed the petition. I don't want the boards to go away. I've been on the boards for years.
I'm like Tinkerbell, Finn! I need applause to live!

Thank you
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-to-keep-the-imdb-messageboards-going#

Well keep up the fight dude. God bless your perseverance

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#

2600 sigs.big whoop

Its at 7054 signatures right now, but thats just a drop in the bucket as
to what it would take to get the big money corp to change their mind.
Charge everybody ten bucks a year! I'd pay it.
Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that.

556X + signatures.
But I doubt it will do any good.
I'm sure IMDB is too CHEAP to keep the boards going. Just imagine the size of the message board content. They can make a lot more money (because we know that's what it always comes down to) but getting rid of the boards.
Problem is, once they do that, traffic is going to drop of SIGNIFICANTLY. I won't be coming here and I'll be deleting the apps from my phone and tablet.
Once that happens, their revenue stream is going to be reduced.
They're basically killing their cash cow in for the sake of greed.
Too bad. Really BAD business decision.
Trolls may be their excuse but we all know there are plenty of ways to control that to a manageable level. No way to eliminate it but you can reduce it. That's how you can tell it's just an EXCUSE.
The real reason is to dump all of the message board content, bring their server usage to a more manageable level and (they think) increase their profits.
Just watch them start to eliminate content that isn't getting enough "hits". Like obscure or foreign films, deceased b list actors. As traffic sinks and revenue with it they'll start to delete content in an attempt to keep the cash flowing.
What a pity.

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-to-keep-the-imdb-messageboards-going#

5500 signed
Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that.