Did imdb have a discussion board?
If it did,I wasn't aware.
shareThe IMDb had the greatest, most extensive discussion boards with by far the largest number of participants the world has ever known !
Way too much trolling though. Lots of nonsense to have to wade through to actually find posts of substance.
shareWay too much trolling though. Lots of nonsense to have to wade through to actually find posts of substance.
That was only a problem the last several years. For many years, it was a great place to go and have a conversation about your favorite movies or a popular TV show. After episodes of LOST, Battlestar Galactica, or GoT, that place was so busy sometimes it would crash.
The last several years though, it became overrun by trolls. Interest in real conversation was gone and people just wanted to troll and bring the site down. share
Indeed. Sadly, "several years" is a long time.
I do remember when it was good. I definitely had some good conversations on there with people.
It's a shame that there are assholes in the world who, for some reason, feel it's a good time to just be a nuisance and to try to disrupt things. I will never understand it. But sadly they pretty much took over the message boards, to the point to where it was like a 4:1 troll-to-thoughtful-poster ratio. And hell, even half the people who were trying to be productive posters didn't have much that was interesting to say.
MovieChat is pretty good at the moment when it comes to being mostly troll-free, but the flip-side is that traffic here is relatively light.
I had a great time on the message boards.
There was a group of us that would watch the L&HH shows and just cut up.
When I found out about this site the first thing I did was read up on old post.
I don't think that message boards need to be we all agree on a show,
but the personal attacks that would go on and on and on on one post was ridiculous.
I do feel that the message boards felt that because of twitter people could just discuss movies there but their format is not easy to follow.
I enjoy the site for letting me talk films would people, but I miss laughing with posters about certain shows.
Where's my crew at.
I have heard people say that Twitter and Facebook have caused a significant decrease in interest in traditional forums. I think you could put Reddit in there too, though it is closer to the traditional forum structure than the first two.
I really do think that's a shame. As you say, conversations are not as easy to follow on those outlets and everything feels much less organized.
I remember when social media first started blowing up, I thought it was a fad that would fade away. Oh, how wrong I was.
I don't get trolling either. That is fun to you?
I honestly started to notice it around the time of the release of the first trailer for The Force Awakens. That's when conversation stopped and trolling started.
Yeah, it's dumb. It just shows that there are a lot of people out in the world who are operating on a totally different wavelength, one that I don't understand.
When IMDB shut down the message boards, part of me was definitely disappointed. But another part of me understood the decision, especially considering that I had largely quit using them anyway since legitimate conversation had become more and more rare.
When I was looking for my credentials to come here and start using this site again, because I just can't do IMDB2 anymore, I starting googling imdb closing down their message boards again. I read a few things about it being a bunch of dorks from 4chan just trying to crash imdb, which they did. Whoever it was, something big started around the release of trailer. There was a ton of "black man" comments. Were they legitimately racists? I'm inclined to think not. I think they were trolls prtending to be just to ruin the site. Yes, they might have been from 4chan, might not have been. Regardless, there was a concentrated effort by SOMEONE.
There was also an element of it on the Marvel boards where people weren't legitimately discussing or criticizing the movies, but just interesting in wreaking havoc. That carried over to the IMDB2 boards, actually and the admins and mods ALLOWED it.
I was angry because I didn't have a place to talk about movies and tv anymore, but you really can't anymore tbh be honest. The game has changed. There's either rampant trolling, people accusing you of being a troll because they don't like your opinion, or injecting politics into EVERYTHING. Even writer troll people now. You ever read some of what Nerdist and Collider put out now? Fucking brutal. Serves no purpose other than to piss people off.
That's interesting about IMDB2. I took a look at that place when the message boards were first closed down and almost signed up, but I came here instead.
I'm not sure if this will remain the case forever, but I think so far MovieChat has remained relatively troll-free, at least from what I've been able to tell. I do with there was more traffic, however.
There's a guy named muscha on IMDB2. Made at least half a dozen comments over the course of 4 days in which he said - in some form - "I am glad Joe Biden raped Tara Reade." I reported it and tagged the guy who "owns" the site and one of the moderators. Nothing was done, so I made a thread bringing this guy and his behavior to their attention. I got lectured for "making a callout thread". I told the moderator to fuck off and was booted. I have no tolerance that kind of ridiculousness. Taking issue with a callout thread, but not the rape stuff?
They also recently booted boranicator for cursing at people...again, while ignoring people like muscha. Yeah, fuck off. I want no parts of a place like that.
Sounds lame. Probably best that you got out of there.
I am a strong believer in freedom of expression, but there's a difference between someone providing an honest opinion and someone just wanting to cause trouble and be a nuisance.
I couldn't believe all of the people abusing Daisy Ridley and saying she was a talentless wooden actress when actually she was fantastic and the single biggest reason for the commercial success of the Star Wars sequels. It was the same when Emilia Clarke was abused for her role as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones. These imbeciles were calling her wooden and she has to be the most emotionally expressive actress going around. It's bizarre.