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Who's Willing to Pay for the IMDb Message Boards?

posted 8 years ago by ShadowsouL
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I certainly am.

I am in favor of paying a reasonable annual fee for the privilege of continuing to read others' opinions and insights about movies and TV shows, regardless of whether or not I agree with them, as well as share my own.

IMDb is the most comprehensive site on the Internet to read about and discuss not only movies and TV shows, but also politics and many other subjects.

A reasonable annual fee is a small price to pay for the continued privilege of discussing movies, television, and other topics. Plus, an annual fee might keep troublemakers off the boards. But if they want to pay money to cause trouble, at least they'll be paying for wasting their time.

My question and call to action to others of like mind is, can we start a petition regarding this, and can we somehow contact IMDb and convince them of this idea, either collectively, individually, or both?

ShadowsouL, Self-Appointed Honorary Moof Milker

LET'S BE IN YOGA!

[–] information_police 8 years ago

I'm in. But it will never be the same. Much fewer people, much fewer povs.

People just need to learn how to igmore and block trolls, or public mbs always degrade and eventually shut down.

[–] Kruleworld 8 years ago

i don't think putting it behind a pay-wall is going to make any real difference.

"He's dusted, busted and disgusted, but he's ok"

[–] MoviemanCin 8 years ago

I agree 100%!

Meanwhile there are two Petitions:

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

and

https://www.change.org/p/imdb-stop-imdb-from-disabling-the-message-boards

I've signed both. Not sure it will help, but it couldn't hurt.

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.

[–] Jeorj Euler 8 years ago

I'm willing to pay no more than six USD per year, but I'm otherwise willing to pay.

[–] sens_death 8 years ago

That's F great, encourage IMDb to become even more greedy and make money out of message boards..