"No longer positive"???? Says who? I've seen people disagree, but don't ever see blatant abuse or anything.
You should have visited the "Hidden Figures" board before the movie even came out and the first 2 weeks of wide release, to know what vile and hateful messages are. That board was ridden with racists, and white supremacists with the most anti-black hateful rhetoric I have ever seen on any board. I thought it was bad on the Empire board before it even premiered, but Hidden Figures was worse.
I was there battling and arguing and we got insulted, Obama got insulted, blacks got insulted etc. It was just a cesspool of racist bigots. The moderators worked full-time deleting all the hateful posts to clean up that message board. It was really sad.
I for one am disappointed but I can honestly see why. America is not the same again and I don't think discussions will be as civil as they are supposed to be. IMDB boards are really good for interacting/discussing about shows and movies but I don't know if the discussions overall are positive anymore.
People will find other means of creating discussion boards for their favorite shows/movies. There is also facebook too which is more popular with a lot of fans compared to IMDB boards. I am on twitter and I just follow movies and shows on twitter to find out all I need to know.
It may be for the best during these hateful times.
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starduss_ala
8 years ago
It's just so easy to simply hit the ignore button though.
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nchi9
8 years ago
It's just so easy to simply hit the ignore button though.
It all depends on how swamped the boards are with the racists as was with the Hidden Figures board. It was practically flooded and overwhelmed by these bigots that you just couldn't read one positive post without being swamped by vastly racist attacks.
Good riddance to these boards I say, because we are now living in hateful times.
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sonyaintexas28
8 years ago
Maybe the moderators need to do a ban by IP address to get rid of the trolls? Why punish those who don't abuse the system.
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nchi9
8 years ago
Maybe the moderators need to do a ban by IP address to get rid of the trolls? Why punish those who don't abuse the system.
It could be for a lot of other reasons especially financial. Based on the traffic coming through, they might need to hire more staff to handle all that extra stuff and knowing that there is a lot of hateful rhetoric in the country right now, who knows how many more staff they might need to hire?
Maybe they have put everything into consideration and decided to just cut their losses and eliminate the problem altogether and frankly speaking, the hateful rhetoric has been amped up quite a bit. My worry is that the nazi racists may be using the IMDB boards as a place to spew their hateful rhetoric.
There must be something significant going on that has caused the owner to arrive at this decision, profits be d@mned and I don't blame them one bit. It may just be too overwhelming for them to handle all the hateful posts.
Too bad.
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sonyaintexas28
8 years ago
You should have visited the "Hidden Figures" board before the movie even came out and the first 2 weeks of wide release, to know what vile and hateful messages are. That board was ridden with racists, and white supremacists with the most anti-black hateful rhetoric I have ever seen on any board. I thought it was bad on the Empire board before it even premiered, but Hidden Figures was worse.
I was there battling and arguing and we got insulted, Obama got insulted, blacks got insulted etc. It was just a cesspool of racist bigots. The moderators worked full-time deleting all the hateful posts to clean up that message board. It was really sad.
I'm really sad to hear that. But with Steve Bannon sitting right besides his racist boss Trump (#NotMyPresident)...people feel so bold. "Get rid of political correctness", was Trump's battle cry. That was dog whistle for people who are white and male to insult all minorities and women.
No wonder why President Obama said to people who are black, "Keep your dignity". I will. But it's really bad seeing cowards who think "white nationalism" is the way to go. I guess America has to keep fighting the same battles against racism. What a waste of energy.
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