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Har har. This is only giving me more reasons to keep o:fj! I have to clear my cache and use proxies just to view this site though.
It's just a matter of time with these people. If you're attractive in Hollywood, you're gonna get naked sooner or later. Jennifer Lawrence can GTFO already.
Who was included?
I watched a lot of tv when I was young. I'd sift through the tv guides to find the most gnarly things I could find on basic cable. I got my first job around 13 years ago, and I spent my first paycheck on dvds. Universal monster movies, 80s classics, slasher flicks, whatever. I built up a dvd collection up until about 2 or 3 years ago, when I lost interest in that endeavor in favor of other viewing methods.
Now, I just work at a movie theater, so I'm always surrounded by it.
Right here:
https://imdbarchive.com/board/10085636/
I'm surprised to see that Halloween III is getting posts on this board though. It is one of the greatest movies of all time.
From a programmatic standpoint, I can understand how that could be tricky. However, if I was going to do it... I'd separate all the new posts from the original archive (sorting by date, I suppose) and put them to the side... get the full archives in place... then throw the new posts on top of that, giving them new IDs and whatnot, if necessary. A few well written scripts can accomplish this. Hell, maybe he IS doing that. Who knows, since ol' Jim doesn't tell us much these days...
My whole point is that it IS do-able.
It'd be possible to allow only authorized users to post images/video, but there's also safe-mode functionality as an option. I work with it on my site to an extent, but it's still not foolproof. For example, you mark a post/comment as NSFW, hide it from non-safe-mode users. Default everybody's account (and guests) to safe-mode for that to work, or block ALL images on safe-mode, etc. There are a lot of ways to work it out, if he actually tried. For a place like this, I think emoticons would probably be your best bet.
Check out:
https://imdbarchive.com/
If you want the full archives. MovieChat stole all his glory, but this guy had it done right all along.
It isn't hard to add that functionality at all. I've built my own forum from scratch years ago and image/video markup is pretty easy. I can agree that images posted by trolls can be a problem, but emoticons would be simple to implement for a place like this. So would ignore functionality, and further customization. I hope Jim isn't slacking...