Nooooooo

imdb.com/board/announcement

>IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb's message boards on February 20, 2017

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Western civilization is finished. Sharia law when?

Great, now even more retards will come here

I can't even ironically pretend to feign interest.

Where will TheChamCham go?

without those imdb boards I would be living a different existence. I probably go to every movie i watchs board and see what the fuck people talk about. new releases as well. its the best hang out for new releases! what the FUCK

nothing of value was lost

tfw i will never see what people think of my obsure waifu anymore

Reminder that Sup Forums is next

I haven't been on IMDB boards for years, but let me guess - Sup Forums types shit in the sandbox to the point where it just made more sense to axe everything rather than try to moderate that mess? Am I warm?

>killing the memes
it's like they want to go bankrupt.

Do they honestly think people use imdb for it's high-quality consumer input?

Do they think people rate their films because they just like filling out stars?

Is IMDB shilling here or something? Who gives a fuck? Who honestly ever used their message boards in the past decade?

I'm genuinely bummed. Nowhere else in existence is a site with a board specifically for discussion of almost every film ever made. Such a valuable resource of information and passion from fellow film fans. Horrible mistake imo. Hopefully someone comes up with a replacement soon.

>no more posting as ChamCham for Brendan

What the fuck will he do now? IMDB was all he had.

i haven't posted in years mainly because it takes months (in at least two instances that i remember, literally months - i was surprised to see reply i've forgotten about posting the question) for someone to reply. but the boards are valuable sources of info for films/shows that i can't info on elsewhere like what the ending is like or did the handsome guys die. i'm not interested in the film if the hot guy dies.

>tfw now you can't reply to a two year old post on an obscure arthouse film calling OP a faggot
god fucking dammit

Not just Sup Forums but also Tumblr, Reddit,Sup Forums and all manner of off-topic shitposters.

Hope Sup Forums is next.

Oh thank god. Their message boards were literally worse than YouTube comments.

>did the handsome guys die. i'm not interested in the film if the hot guy dies.

Sucks for them. Doing this will cause less people to visit their site

Silly user. Reddit and Tumblr is not a problem here.

I meant on IMDB. People bitching the role was too white and people bitching it wasn't White enough.

ATTENTION, THIS IS NOT A DRILL

WE, USERS OF Sup Forums HAVE MORAL OBLIGATION TO TAKE IN THESE POOR SOULS AND WELCOME THEM TO OUR HEARTH

I HEREBY CALL FOR EVERY Sup Forums USER TO POST AS MANY ADVERTISEMENTS OF Sup Forums ALL THROUGHOUT IMDB.

I still sometimes read the boards there for the autism. I'll search random boards for such posts. A thread on the Harry Potter & Chamber of Secrets board for example:

>Why does Ginny have a thing for Harry?
>This makes no sense to me for the following reasons:
>1. The biggest reason as to why it does not make sense to me is because I don't remember her eyeballing him when she met him at the train station in Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone. All of a sudden in Chamber of Secrets, he is apparently all she thinks about.
>2. He is not particularly good looking that she would be sexually attracted to how he looks.(Even though Radcliffe is a decent looking guy in real life)
>3. His personality isn't exactly charming in the traditional sense and he has little charisma.(I am not saying Radcliffe isn't a good actor, I just mean that I generally think the character is bland in general.
>4. Lastly, even though he politely said hi to her at home, she still doesn't know him well enough to decide whether or not she thinks he is a good guy who is beautiful on the outside.
>This whole thing would have been ok with me if the movie had given an explanation as to why she fancies him so much, but it never really does explain. I haven't read the book, but they might have given an explanation if she was in love with him in the Chamber of Secrets novel. Also, why other thing that doesn't make sense is why she is nervous to see him at breakfast when it is not the first time she has met him considering she met him in the first movie. I guess she was startled to see him at breakfast. I just thought it felt like an unnecessary and forced storyline the writers put in the movie for no reason. If anyone thinks they have a clear explanation, please share with me.

This.

>inb4 "normies"
So you want the pedo and blacked threads to continue? Or do you want more discussion on movies?

I think the latter is much better

I was really hoping this would just axe the general boards and not the movie specific posts but no they're doing a complete purge. It's too bad, even the oldest and most obscure films usually had a few posts from people who saw whatever in the theater or drive in down at the bottom of the page. RIP in peaches.

They probably cannot monitor it all and feel just removing it is better.

I admit i read it sometimes and the comments are usually worse then anything you find on here,and that says alot.

Even so i am sure alot of traffic comes from people just roaming those comments.

do reddit threads/post disappear like in 4chen? one useful thing about imdb boards is that the threads and the info they contain will still be there when i need to find info about the movie. some movies have very little info on their pages and i depend on that movie's discussion board to get the info i'm searching for.

i could ask Sup Forums but the user with the answer might not be browsing Sup Forums and my thread/question will be bumped off page 10 by the time the user with the answer browses. with imdb, my question stays there. or the thread with the info i need does not eventually disappear.

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And here on the Avatar boards, an autist named 'BanzaiTron' has made several posts in the last couple days and seems to have a passionate dislike for those that post there.

imdb.com/title/tt0499549/board/?ref_=tt_bd_sm

Who /msn/ here?

>do reddit threads/post disappear like in 4chen?
yes IMDB cleaned and deleted millions of IMDB threads

>do reddit threads/post disappear like in 4chen ?
If you mean IMDB, they used to keep all the posts but revently they started deleting them.

FUCK I miss the msn days. So much better than skype and shit

>all those games u could play with people
Why doesn't skype have any game add ons? How come every time a new program emerges, it has less content?

Freedom of speech was a mistake.

BanzaiTron has a way with words. No longer being able to see these feuds that last years will be sad.

>Idiots all of you. Here you have a director pretty much known for R-rated films delivering on of the best sci-fi films of last year, maybe one of the all time best without resorting to R.

>All you should be bitch slapped like the bitchers you are.

I doubt that is it. I suspect the reason is more they don't want to maintain the boards when such a low percentage of IMDB users actually post on there. And since the boards don't directly add to their profits, it's easier just to get rid of the entire thing rather than to cover the minor costs for upkeep on them. Lots of major website have been going this route.

That's at least slightly on topic. These posters fought for over a decade about one of them needing help for their literal autism.
imdb.com/title/tt0092359/board/thread/265770673?p=1

From the Ratatouille board:

>Actually, it is more than just one person's opinion.

>Sorry, but I'd hazard a guess over 90% of the population agree with the original poster's opinion of these vile, disgusting creatures. Please spare us your tiny group of rat lovers' opinion of how smart and clean they are. All I needed to cement my feelings about rats was to see them in the New York Subway system, where they get to be quite large and agressive.

>Oh, and spare us the gibberish about how "misunderstood" they are. They are vectors, that is pests that destroy crops and spread disease. And please, don't give us the "plague was spread by fleas that the rats carried" and not the rats themselves bullcrap - they are hosts to the extent they were carriers and thus present at the origination of one of mankind's most horrible losses of human life.

>When I first saw this movie, I was struck by the scene in which the masses of rats swarm the old lady's home and even cause the ceiling to collapse. Yet, we're supposed to be more sympathetic to the hordes of rats over this poor old lady, bothering no one, who is trying to get on with her life?

>YOU are the one who needs to get over yourself.

Are they really going to purge all of this? Or just freeze it so no one can post again? It'd be a crime to see all of this disappear. It's art in its own way.

>using skype

>tfw
my fucking soul is crying

Amazing.

I used to go to to the batman v superman board it was hilarious.

i meant the reddit board. haven't browsed it so don't know. i'm asking because it might be an alternative to the imdb boards in that threads remain for people to later read. but, still, it's not in the same page as the movie's or show's page so you'll have to do a separate search as opposed to being on the show's imdb page and if you can't find the info you just scroll down to the discussion board links.

You must be new af. Moot declared that Rules 1 & 2 apply globally in order to slow the cancer.

It probably is also hard to keep an eye on everything. Fucking GameFAQs has problems with people sharing porn openly in obscure N64 game boards and such and moderators can't be assed to check every single games forum

The cunny spam would probably drive all of them away in the first day anyway.

When has quality cunny ever driven away anyone? Everybody wants it, that's why (((they))) make it illegal.

I love the imdb boards. You're able to see arguments that span years, sometimes a decade.

kek

I'm just going to post a reddit comment that claims to have some first hand experience with imdb and why this might be happening. 80% chance at least of being bullshit but I for one choose to believe it:

This is no surprise whatsoever. I've worked at IMDb (the worst and most discouraging experience of my professional life ) and believe me, the company is a soulless, empty corporate shell that has one goal: to sell advertising. It's not about movies, TV, or being 'guardians of data' - everything is about making money. The entire site is setup to sell advertising, and movie data is simply a means to achieve that. End of story.

The reason IMDb is getting rid of the message boards is simple: they can't be monetised. If IMDb could make money out of the boards, they'd be staying, but there's no cash in it for them, so they're getting axed. The sell-outs who run IMDb will have looked at the 'metrics' (a risible corporate buzzword the Data Team loves so much) and decided that traffic is not high enough for them to make any real money.

It really is that simple. I've experienced first-hand the obsession with metrics, and making money (at the expense of customer satisfaction), and it really is pathetic to behold. No decision is made at IMDb without greed being factored into the equation, and believe me, they will also shut down certain data sections at some point if they get in the way of making money. Forget the fact that the site has compiled 20+ years worth of important data - if one of the sections can no longer be monetised effectively (Literature, for example), they'll just get rid of it, and dump the hard work of thousands of contributors without batting an eye.

In financial terms, keeping the message boards live costs IMDb basically nothing, bar the human cost of maintenance, which - when considered in the context of the site's huge annual profit margin - is less than miniscule. Still, community cannot get in the way of making money, and trying to increase the site's earning by 5-10% every.single.year.

There's no point complaining about it, making suggestions, or suggesting alternate, viable solutions - the hacks at IMDb don't give a toss. There's no money in it for them, so they're not interested. They'll fob you off with the usual hollow platitudes, but make no mistake, the IMDb that people love died years ago. Now, the site is just a shiny, corporate plaything, pimped out by Amazon for the purposes of making money, with greed - not customer focus - being its primary driving force.

One final note: it probably burns IMDb that the majority (over one third) of their users come from China, the audience for which is far less valuable to advertisers than, say, the USA and the UK. Only about 5% of IMDb's users come from the UK, which is ironic considering the site originated in England. But, I digress - IMDb stopped having relevance years ago; Letterboxd is far superior.

As an add-on to my previous post: having worked at IMDb, I know from first-hand experience that the company is populated with corporate psychopaths, and they take their lead from the guy at the top, who is a ruthless, power hungry, two-faced phony. IMDb wasn't just founded by one guy; in the beginning, there were 5 or 6 guys who collaborated on getting it off the ground, but IMDb's current head honcho systematically stabbed them all in the back and either forced them out of the company, or ensured they got fired by Amazon. And these were his friends; people he'd worked with 15-20 years (!) This guy loves being in the limelight; swanning around to various film festivals acting like he's God's gift to film. Make no mistake: he (and his equally smug CTO, another corporate psychopath) are behind this change. He sold out to Amazon years ago, and doesn't give a toss about customer engagement. Like all corporate psychopaths, he talks a good game, and feigns interest, but as I've experienced first-hand, it's all an act, and it's all about money.

If something can't be monetized, or the 'metrics' don't show enough pageviews, it's gone, irrespective of the customer impact. You only have to look at the discussion thread on the Contributor's help board to see the contempt with which the head of IMDb holds the site's visitors.

imdb.com/board/bd0000042/flat/265706940?p=8

He's ignored 99% of comments, and replied only to the one comment that somewhat supports the abolishment of the message boards. Plus, like a coward, he deleted my comment on thread, and I'm sure he's furiously emailing Reddit right now trying to get my posts removed here. Good luck with that!

Then how come IMDb is axing the message boards now, after some many years

the only bummer is some obscure genre films have good comments listing similar films or weird trivia that never got added to the movie listing

plus there's no other website i know of that has permanent subforums for individual actors and actresses, which has been useful from time to time

Beats me. Other places have been cutting their comments sections thought. It's a building up to be a fad. Maybe that's the final push.

The entire Internet is getting more and more controlled and censored.

I didn't know Chinese people used IMDB so much.

Yup, pretty much what I figured was the reason.

>tfw i will never see what people think of my obsure waifu anymore


>>tfw now you can't reply to a two year old post on an obscure arthouse film calling OP a faggot
>god fucking dammit

>Other places have been cutting their comments sections thought. It's a building up to be a fad. Maybe that's the final push.
>The entire Internet is getting more and more controlled and censored.

yep

>muh (((moot)))

Well Trump is getting rid of net neutrality, so obviously this was going to happen.

Before or after his supporters on the alt-right lynch him

Net Neutrality is what keeps the internet open to political discourse without being censored by large corporations

>thinking wrong think gets your net speeds throttled

boy what a world to live in

lol

i don't like where this world is heading

I'm more and more tmepted to go live in the woods. A few weeks of life and a painful death seem a better alternative than the autistic 1984 world we're living in now.

why? then people would just go to wikipedia and RT now

They don't realize that traffic isn't everything. I don't use imdb forums but the fact they existed was a factor on why I went to imdb so much. No forums, less interest, even if I never used them. I'm sure I'm not the only one feeling this way. Haing an option that you don't use beats not having that oprion anymore.

Maybe now he can put all his attention into his career, his kids and unJUSTisng himself instead of shitposting all the time

>he doesn't know the power of meme magic

>he hasn't read thechamcham's autism and wasn't here when Sup Forums and plebbit made him quit imdb

your only hope is that a drone assassinates you in your sleep for unauthorized occupation

The official reason they give is it's necessary to meet the costs of maintaining the website.

The real reason is too many pedo creeps on the child actresses boards

I miss AIM desu
Although I had some cringe conversations on there I'm glad are gone forever

Shame, it's probably one of the last vestiges of old internet in the mainstream

That's why I think I like it. It's got an old fashioned charm.

the normie equivalent of Sup Forums

glad it's gone

Defining chat of 1999-2007.
Still makes me mad I can't send files over steam chat

Reminds me that xfire existed

OC btw

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Looks like (((they))) finally shut. It. Down.

>Moot declared
who?

The founder of facebook.

What's everyone think of my obscure waifu?

a shit

It's because trying to moderate that shit is near impossible, there are so many boards and so many users

>Rules 1 & 2
gb2/gaia/

You don't even know who Moot is, do you?

what they're saying without the political cryptography is that they're about to recieve a partnership or sponsor from nosewood who wants to reduce the influence the average pleb has on the outcome of ratings or criticism towards capeshit and other lower forms of Sup Forums

user ratings will go down next

> imdb ads == top of page
> long forum threads == scroll down below ads
> amount of $ to spend paying ad team to rewrite ads to be persistent through every thread > amnt of $ theyd make from the 10 ppl who actually bother reading that far down
> which is in turn < amnt of $ to maintain their garbage forum code
> soh theres literally noh reason to keep them

I miss yahoo chatrooms, I banged a lot of useless cat ladies from them.

They're making it pretty clear that they have to get rid of the Internet *because* there's too many bigoted alt-right fascism supporters on it

The arguments are usually started over just basic film criticism.

It's even better when someone bumps a thread 5 years later to ask who won it.