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[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

Why are the discussions anything but movie/tv related?

Seems like someone gets the point of regulation now.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

Exactly. A lot of people don't seem to get that.

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[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

And it could include headline discussions?

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

A.N.Y.T.H.I.N.G. 😜😜😜😜

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/71/9c/18/719c18061a6959e0811265fc436880ce.jpg

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[–] Mint Berry Crunch (345) 8 years ago

Why are the discussions anything but movie/tv related?

Because some things are lil bit more fricken important than silly movie and tv discussion. And your ass wants to force people with regulation to talk about some dumb episode of NCIS or another movie star doing something stupid in their private life. Leave. Go to the other dozen already regulated sites to talk about which celebrity looks like someone else.

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[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

I think you need to be regulated.

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[–] Mint Berry Crunch (345) 8 years ago

Exactly. That's a type of person you are. Anyone who doesn't conform to your nonsense needs to be regulated. You would have made a great communism. No wait, you probably already are.

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[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

Not my nonsense, the theme of this site. Everything needs to be orderly and to the topic at hand.

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[–] Mint Berry Crunch (345) 8 years ago

Right, so you're talking about movies. So get off the general discussion board, hypocrite.

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[–] arvin g borkar (2854) 8 years ago

Well as long as it is not regulated and I still support it to be done that way, does not mean I am a hypocrite. I am still following the guidelines. I do not have to be staunch about it.

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[–] earl237 (1106) 8 years ago

I think the traffic dropped off just because it's summer and the regular tv season is over, it will pick up again when the new season starts.

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[–] db20db (17295) 8 years ago

But your fun emoji thread is offsetting that, Dazed and seems timely.

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[–] db20db (17295) 8 years ago

Yeah, if any thread is contributing to traffic here, that one is it .

Hope it continues indefinitely.

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[–] LeiaOfLothlorien (1980) 8 years ago

*shrug* Better this than trolls bickering back and forth. But it isn't the best either.

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[–] Johan_Wondering_on_Waves (54) 8 years ago

I guess people get tired of having to wait for days until someone replies. So many (too many perhaps) sections and not enough active members who seem to be willing to check them all out. People still too much spread out over different places. Imdb2, tmdb and smaller sites aimed at a certain interest also facebook groups.

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[–] Sentient Meat (1509) 8 years ago

Yes. It is good to have at least one active section until enough people come to fill out the individual boards.

This reminds me of the dumb ending in Battlestar Galactica where
[spoiler] they have this tiny group of people who decide to separate and wander Earth separately[/spoiler]

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[–] pankoeken (469) 8 years ago

Everything about the BG ending was awful. That robot montage was painfully bad.

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[–] Sentient Meat (1509) 8 years ago

Yeah, I remember the first hour being okay and then it really went downhill. A lot of good shows blow the ending so I still have fond memories... but it's too bad it wasn't better. Was hoping Caprica would succeed but that was weird too.

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[–] pankoeken (469) 8 years ago

The worst part was I along with a lot of other people predicted the ending in season 1. The show had been so good for most of it's run I can't believe they had to retread something from several episodes of The Twilight Zone.

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[–] catsidhe (1649) 8 years ago

I'm starting to feel a bit discouraged from posting.

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 8 years ago

I'm not sure what you mean. What's different? Where are the headline discussions shown?

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 8 years ago

Okay, I see what you mean now. It's because people have posted to those News, Rumors, and Gossip threads on that tab.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 8 years ago

This is what I was complaining about yesterday. It's a terrible development, BECAUSE THE PORTLE TO MOVIECHAT HAS COMPLETELY LOST ITS PERSONALITY. It looks like the portle to Headline News. This is the first part of MC that newcomers see. Is THIS the way that we want them to see it, awash in a sea of breaking news and not one thread about movies, TV shows or other entertainment-related topics? This is NOT going to expand the posting population on this site.

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[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

Totally agree. JIM DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

Maybe if everyone (including yourself Dazed) stopped replying to political posts, they will stop making political 'news' threads in GD, hey?

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[–] actionkamen (23176) 8 years ago

Mind. Blown. 😲

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[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

Yep, or at least those posts won't be pushed up to the top.

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[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

Dazed, I agree with you. We should be discussing other general stuff, not politics. Why do posters use the General Discussion board when they could just use the Politics Board? It's such a big turn off. I hope Jim does something about it.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 8 years ago

And it's being done mostly by one poster, with a little help from another one. Take a look at who's making the first posts on these things. The gut is wagging the dog.

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[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

I can't be bothered to look at those threads. I'm not even American, but even if I were, I would never post on a 'movie chat' board about politics. EVER.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

I can't be bothered to look at those threads.

Exactly!! You know how to use your "Internal Ignore System" properly. 😊

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[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

Yes I do! Shame others don't! lol

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

Why do posters use the General Discussion board when they could just use the Politics Board? It's such a big turn off. I hope Jim does something about it.

Because Jim is the one who made it like this. He is the one that added the News, Rumors & Gossip feature. That is where these posts are coming from.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 8 years ago

Jim made a mistake. One jackass with, presumably, an agenda, can change the very nature of this site.

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[–] db20db (17295) 8 years ago

LOL ! Yes, glad you picked up on that .

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

Jim is very receptive to emails about the site. If he gets enough emails from members stating their dislike of the feature, he may try to change it.

[email protected]

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

There is no poster. They are just news articles that are listed in the News, Rumors & Gossip section. When someone makes a comment on one of those news articles, the thread is then moved over from N,R&G to this board. If an article is from CNN, then CNN will show up as the OP etc.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

Anytime 😃

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[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

Yes Jim made it like this so he can kindly fix it. I have started a new thread asking him to make a News, Rumor and Gossip board and redirect all comments from there to that specific board. Let's see if he replies.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

He doesn't really reply on the board too much. But he is very receptive to emails. The more emails he gets from people about something, the better chance he will try to help. His address is [email protected] 😊

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[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

Problem is I don't like using my email. I didn't even use it to sign up here.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

If the problem is you don't want to use your email because it's private, you can just make another one just for using for Movie Chat. Email addresses are free, and you can have an unlimited amount of email addresses....

Jim really does care what we think about the site. He just doesn't have time to read all the posts. So he encourages us to email him about concerns and glitches and suggestions to make the site the best he can make it. And he really does read his emails and responds accordingly. Just a few weeks ago I was unable to post or reply or a answer PMs. I emailed Jim and he got me back up and running in less than 2 hours. So it really is worth contacting him about concerns. Just make a new email address and add it to the sight. You don't have to turn notifications on if you don't want them on.

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[–] LeiaOfLothlorien (1980) 8 years ago

You could try PM'ing him. I'm not sure how often he checks his notifications, or if he has email alerts, but it's worth a shot.

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 8 years ago

Good idea. Oddly, I've never thought of PMing him.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

This is just a general reply to all:
I know all the threads look political, BUT, if you click on the News, Rumors & Gossip feature of this board, you will see that every story is CELEBRITY RELATED. Celebrities are all up in politics ass right now so, hence all the politics.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 8 years ago

Related to celebrity and hearsay. Not related to entertainment, movies and TV shows.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

So then "HBO may push Game of Thrones' final season to 2019, and that wouldn't be a bad thing" is not showbiz related?

Or "Chris Cornell Autopsy Report: 'Drugs Did Not Contribute' to Death"?

Or even "Wonder Woman Sequel Characters We Want to See"?

Because that's listed there in that very section.

What would be nice is a "Hide Original Post" button so we could click away original threads we don't want to see. But, until/if we get that, we'll just have to use our "Internal Ignore System" to just scroll right past the posts we are not interested in. But I know that's harder for some people to do than others.

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[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

Original threads should be made by posters, word by word, .....and not just 'replies' to articles, no matter what the article is about.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

Again... let Jim know about it, since it's HIS BOARD AND HIS FEATURE. Whining on the boards doesn't really get things done with him. Direct contact does. But I know there are people who would just rather whine and complain.

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[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

Nah I'll just reply to stupid articles to get my point across.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

Good luck with that. Oh and whining on stupid articles keeps bumping them to the top. 😂😂😂😂

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[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

Oh I know I'll have no luck.

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 8 years ago

I just backed out of one where you were the only poster, bumping it out of News/Rumors/Gossip and into General Discussion. Please don't do that. It's annoying enough that two or more posters here do this deliberately, for who knows what reason, except some sort of disruption of the board.

But you don't like it any more than most of the rest of us do, yet you're contributing to it. Instead, please consider writing to Jim, or bumping up your post appealing to him to show such threads on the N/R/G tab, or another dedicated board, or some other approach.

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[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

I'm doing it to make a point to those posters who don't seem to mind. If I had signed on with an email address I would email him, but I didn't, so I won't. I'm sure there are plenty of people who are happy to though....

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[–] Cornelia123 (784) 8 years ago

I'm doing it to make a point to those posters who don't seem to mind. If I had signed on with an email address I would email him, but I didn't, so I won't. I'm sure there are plenty of people who are happy to though....

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[–] Catbookss (13664) 8 years ago

I know you are, but unfortunately in doing so, you're only adding to the problem.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

Bumped again. You see what I'm saying? The more you ignore the threads you don't like the better chance you have of the thread sinking down lower and lower to the bottom of the pile.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

In the beginning, no. The email thing came about a month, maybe a few weeks, later.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

That's one of them kinds of people that you can't talk sense to. Like a child that can't get it's way it has to bang and stomp and cry while laying on it's back on the floor.

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[–] MinaVladimir (4081) 8 years ago

So, the question here is, is this feature generating discussion? And is it generating helpful discussion, one that'll bring more people in?

I don't know who's accessing that, or if it can be accessed, but aren't we in the "trial and error" stage still?

I don't mind a thread from the News,... tab every once in a while, but if the first 2 pages are filled with threads from there, and troll posts, I'm not sure if it creates a very stimulating environment. And, yeah, I liked it better before (though I sometimes comment on those as well).

Maybe be the two tabs can remain separated, and the threads that have discussion on the news articles can go in their own tab. Sort of separating of user generated threads and not. Or would that be too complicated?

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 8 years ago

Mina, it's not generating good discussion, that is, discussion that is germane to movie chat. It's creating discussion like what grew out of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, that is, discussion that isn't movie chat. bubbathegut is clicking on useless links and posting banal comments and flooding the portals with dimwitted crap. This is an assault on the essence of Moviechat.

Most of these carryovers from Gossip, etc., have, what?, three comments attached to them, many
of them asking why this topic is here at all. This is not growing the site. This is not expanding the discussion. This is a jackass seeking attention because he cannot create it any other way and because Jim has unfortunately handed him a means for doing so.

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[–] MinaVladimir (4081) 8 years ago

Well, now we see that as with the abuse of the Trending tab, this also can be used to disrupt on topic discussion. Now Jim and the mods can turn some attention to this issue as well.

I don't know if banal comments should be penalised, but we do have rules about spamming and manipulating features.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

Maybe be the two tabs can remain separated, and the threads that have discussion on the news articles can go in their own tab. Sort of separating of user generated threads and not. Or would that be too complicated?

I've wished it was that way from the first thread I saw from that section.

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[–] MinaVladimir (4081) 8 years ago

I think it's going to be better. People can still comment on those, if they want to, but it won't bog down the flow of General Discussion.

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[–] MinaVladimir (4081) 8 years ago

The odd one, yes. But this seems like something different. It's like the Trending section abuse all over again.

And I don't know if it's just me, but wasn't the recent "attack" longer that the other ones? After a big freak out (or whatever it's called), whoever it is stays low for a while. This time, they just went right back at it.

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[–] April-151-CT (10210) 8 years ago

I liked it better before.
Anyone else.

I forgot to say, yes, me too lol. 😜

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[–] Varadero8 (140) 8 years ago

Hitler was jewish .

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