IMDB Shutting Down Discussion Boards Because Too Many People Got Triggered

>Amazon-owned IMDb announced today it will be closing down its discussion board later this month

Thoughts?

Pussies.

Not like it added anything important to the site

i always visit the board for each movie after i finish

this is shit

why though?

Well I've used imdb for god knows how long and have never been at the comments section, if anything I'll just glance at some reviews.

And nothing of value was lost.

Horrendous board. Not sure why they never made an effort to actually make it look good.

>one of the worst comments sections on the Internet
Sarah Perez should visit Sup Forums sometime

I stopped posting there 6 years ago when I discovered Sup Forums

Haven't used the comments board on IMDb in YEARS. I remember making American Psycho jokes on there before Sup Forums was created. It was always full of shitposting.

i wonder what chamcham will do now

It's weird how many sites have had comment sections for 15, 20 years but are suddenly deciding it's time to close them down.

I've never been to the general boards on imdb but they can't be any worse then Sup Forums.

It's the current year, none of this stuff flies in our culture anymore.

The internet is turning into a product billboard instead of a community

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There's already a thread on this why did you feel the need to make another?

Anonymous comments under propaganda articles are always fun since the comments are often more interesting than the articles in question. That's what they're afraid of I guess.

Not like there aren't a billion other places on the internet for discussion. Sites like IMDB have a reputation to uphold and keep advertisers, it much cost them a ton in moderation to keep all the trolls out.

The first step was when Google disabled the message board search feature

Actually a shit ton will be lost because of sjw lgbt PC cucked degenerate libshits.

A fuckton of trivia and anecdotes about movies and their making will be lost forever like tears in the rain. time to die you dumb son of a whore, kill yourself you subhuman reddit shit sucker.

Who cares? Those forums were shit anyway.

>Not like there aren't a billion other places on the internet for discussion
There aren't. See Virtually every site out there is systematically eliminating its comment sections

fucking communist can't handle pro Trump movie watchers. run away faggots run away.

Amazon is corporate cancer. This is a plot to fake the ratings and not have comments to expose the fake ratings.

Gee I wonder

It's very interesting to see all these sites removing discussion. It's, dare I say, removing forms of dissent

Original thread here. Use the catalog.

LOL

This is the same forum that bans everyone for the smallest things.

Literally every thread you go on half the posts have been deleted by mods.

I remember this shit since like 2002. Holy fuck it was always the same way.

it's for the best. i don't care for news comments though, 'cause i never use them.
also, i thought imdb was going to use outside providers for comments, since they were doing a trial run for some of the boards. guess they decided against that.

It's the fucking watch this movie for free bots that fucked it up. They should have put a shitty captcha thing up.

kek, I usually stop reading halfway through the article and go for the comments calling out the bullshit.

If negative/controversial opinions aren't visible you can just pretend they don't exist.

lol I bet someone called leslie jones ugly or something

>shut it down!

>i don't care for news comments though, 'cause i never use them.
Sometimes you need them.

The Atlantic published an article on abortion recently, and after the comments pointed out a few errors they had to append this at the end.

They barely gave a shit about them. It was so difficult to navigate them.

But I found so relevant info in some besides the i wanna fugg grill x or y. So it's a shame, but not too mad about it.

>he didn't scrape the site to pull the boards into a local database
you fucked up

Delet your comment goy, it triggers my PTSD from the Shoah!

the average article nowadays is just horrible written propaganda or political motivated opinion pieces which use easily to disprove lies

I guess the are shutting down comments sections so that people can no longer call them out and show that they lied

No comments = fake news.

The Internet really is fucking dead isn't it?

Every dream, all the optimism of a new frontier, it amounted to nothing.

What's ChamCham gonna do?

i'm pretty saddened by this. sure , 90% of the threads is "worst movie ever" , "this movie is racist" etc, but especially for more obscure movies or foreign movies, there are often very insightful discussions about hidden symbolism or meanings or tips for other movies that i am often too dumb to grasp myself.

No reason to go to IMDB anymore. For me it was BOM for info and IMDB to comment.

So you can't call out when they obviously lie anymore

It was weird that multiple outlets did it around the same time though

wtf i did this shit too, all the time, after finishing my kino.
You tried doing that here on Sup Forums or plebbit and nobody is gonna reply, specially if it's an obscure movie.
On IMDb there's people that will care, eventually. Even if it takes them months or years to reply to your posts.

It's strange, huh? Almost as if there's some sort of collaboration going on. Where have we seen this before?

hoo boy, prepare for the new influx of newfags.

suicide

Reminder to join all cinema patricians over at Letterboxd

Also join us over at the /lbg/ general for in-depth film discussion

They say to go to their social media but im not falling for the opening night fake wank fest for every movie tweeted.

It was the best part of the site.

UGH GOOBLEGRIBLERS PLS GO
YOUR MOVEMENT FAILED

>Jessica Valenti
Always do the opposite of what she says

Someone should PM him telling him how to make a trip so he can hang out here

Where will we post about how terrible movies are after we finish watching them?

Message boards were pretty interesting. I usually check those instead of actual reviews

you fags talk about Battle Field Earth, No I thought so.

>the atlantic
there's your problem

other news outlets already act as a form of peer review. also nothing is stopping this discussion outside of the site and bringing it to the attention of the editors.

thank you

Dammit, the American Psycho board was a 24/7 meme party.

Fuck that place they made fun of me for liking great directors like Kubrick and Villeneuve.

Damn, I'll miss looking at the page for some obscure movie from 20 years ago and there's like a total of two comments about something super specific in the movie. It was interesting to connect with someone else in the world who liked the same unpopular movie as you and maybe had the same weird thoughts about it.

Outside of catching the occasional random post about an old movie on Sup Forums before it dies in an hour, there's really nothing similar on the internet. It's just endless discussion of the same 25 movies.

Shut it down!!!

The chumps at the top have been worrying for generations about publicity concerns compounded by the cost incurred to police communal discussion areas.

Microsoft operated a global hub of live irc style chatrooms until the early 2000s when they began to phase them out. Too many stories about children being preyed upon or angry parents contacting Microsoft and the media with stories about the horrible filth their children had been exposed to on the website of such a major organisation.

But it's definitely becoming more commonplace in the new era of the web, but it's also true that there are more websites and communities than ever before online. As much as has fallen, much much more has been added. We have VPN stacks, multiple stage encryption, onion, blockchains, Wi-Fi and smartphones now. Technology will continue to empower both individuals AND governments and institutions.

They can't stop us, and believe me, they ARE trying.

why do many people like this movie? i just don't get it?

it wasn't even scary?

Exactly. Seeing people's random comments, hell, even checking out the obvious shills from people who made the movie, was what made the site great.

j-list was a bigger deal.

>other news outlets already act as a form of peer review
that's a good one

Oy vey, you're saying you want to find out more information from individuals that have not peer-reviewed and fact-checked their claims? That could be fake news you're reading, goyim! Only an ignorant alt-right nazi would complain of not being able to read potential lies!

You should read the reviews at rotten tomatoes from experts, and make sure you only watch recent movies or the ones in our catalogs. Don't stray too far from our prescribed films goy, you don't want to look like a social outcast, do you?

Yep, and absolutely nothing will ever be able to replace that

it's a shit decision made with millennial cunts in mind, the sort of people who are only interested in rating a movie or posting an inane emoji and not actually discussing it. see: letterboxd

Why does everything have to get worse over time?

>there are more websites and communities than ever before online. As much as has fallen, much much more has been added. We have VPN stacks, multiple stage encryption, onion, blockchains
Nobody is using any of that bullshit. The "powers that be" don't give a shit what 10 neckbeards are circlejerking about on a BBS, they're achieving their goal to make sure the multitudes never hear a single word about it.

The Internet isn't getting bigger. It's shrinking.

I can dig it.
If I owned Sup Forums I would kill it in a heartbeat.

Wow, you really care about a message board.

How sad.

Nigga I'm not going to use some blockchain imageboard or some shit and onion sites are horribly unpopular

Sometimes you want to interact with and see the opinions of normies on a non-reddit platform

We are moving to an internet where people don't discuss things, instead everything must be a simple rating or stupid fucking meme reply. Look at how twitter, snapchat and IG have grown in popularity. Even is part of the problem and they don't realize it.

All boring, inane ratings and emojis and no discussion. This is just another step towards that

what's the next best site because Sup Forums is not the same animal.

>Yahoo
>audience of 201 million
That's 191 million more than I expected

Doesn't exist I'm afraid, and it's not coming back

>Always do the opposite of what she says
Checkmate.

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>but it's also true that there are more websites and communities than ever before online

This isn't true at all. Literally everything is being centralised to garbage social media sites where you actually can't have proper discussions. How can you not see this? It's what IMDB have done, it's why comments sections on pratically every major newspaper and blog have disappeared. Things are getting worse and worse.

Why do you think IG, snapchat and twitter are so popular now? They are so fucking inane and boring. Literally the most spurious tweets or pictures that convey nothing, and yet they are more popular than ever. Traditional forums have all but died out. How can you not see this as a problem?

I get the feeling its a lot of thirdworlders

>image

Why is this happening?

Youtube comments

Anyone know what Blu-ray.com is like?

I know the whole appeal of twitter is in the small character limit and I find it very useful for breaking news because all journalists and corresponding academics are on there but it's utterly pointless for discussion, just shitty sassy black lady gifs forever and ever

How long before internet anonymity is banned?

r/movies might be more your speed, embryo

it's old people who had their frontpage switched to yahoo after downloading a toolbar

This. Controlling the the flow of information and forming the narrative in one-way communication to the masses is what has kept the elites in power. The Internet is a threat to that which is why they are doing everything in their power to control it. This is why you can have literal child porn on twitter but you get instabanned if you criticize immigration.

It was the only thing I used IMDB for. After each movie I go to the forums to see what the people has to say about it. Kind of sucks, but I guess I can live fine without it.

>they finally realized the net is undermining the existing mainstream media control too much.

the future is over

luckily for me I have irl friends who I can talk about movies with
mubi and Sup Forums used to be decent enough but now they're both utter garbage, hopefully cinemos comes soon but I don't have much hope that it won't be just another sjw ridden shithole where nobody discusses films and everybody is only there to show off how """knowledgeable""" they are

Comment sections are a form of keeping writers in check -- even IF there is trolling, there are also constructive comments.

Removing comments is just a means of only allowing one voice to be presented.

Is Sup Forums going to be the last bastion of free thought?

It is isn't it?

So did I. I thought I was the only one.

Now that Trump is in charge, within 8 years.

Sup Forums is likely compromised

you mean uncensored open discussion? free thought isn't the same thing

>Is Sup Forums going to be the last bastion of free thought?
I am laughing so hard on the inside right now.