True reason Amazon closed Imdb forums
Does anyone have some insider knowledge about the actual reason the forums were closed?
How about traffic statistics on Imdb? Anything besides Alexa(also owned by Amazon)?
Maybe they got tired of the incessant bitching?
"You're censoring people, you Nazis!"
"You're not censoring enough people, you Nazis!"
The last 12 months at IMDb were insane. It was almost like the place had been invaded by a bunch of trolls whose job was to behave so badly that it would give Amazon an excuse to close the Boards down. Gee imagine that !
I think that's true in the sense that trolls were NOT the reason they were shut down.
The only believable reason to close them that I heard of (but no proof) is because the forums hosted very much insider secrets about directors, actors etc and a big portion of Hollywood actually pressured to have that data removed.
I doubt that very much. I never saw anything like that in the nine years I was on the IMDb Boards. I think it was probably that Amazon didn't want a venue where people could freely say what they wanted about new films and television shows. Bad for business. And you have to remember that the IMDb Boards were very active.
That makes sense. There might also have been concern that un-moderated or poorly-moderated commentary might have raised some issues for the site we see with the large social media platforms, in terms of responsibility for hate-talk, manipulation by bots, weaponized bad actors.
I'd have to think that traffic on the IMDB site is only a ghost of what it was (though I could be wrong). I never go there, wiki has all the better content without the ads, context-switches, javascript woggles in the way.
I think this was it. Those forums were counter productive to business.
Same when Netflix ditched is rating system. Lots of garbage films got low ratings for all to see - meaning less would watch them, reducing their watched numbers.
I don't know what Netflix is doing now about ratings as I no longer use it.
One of the things I've heard is that on some of the actor's boards, people posted things that were violations of the actor's privacy, or the privacy of people close to them, and that IMDB was worried about legal blowback. I mean stuff that either came from stalkers, or stuff that would be of use to stalkers.
I have no idea if this is true. I posted there on and off for years and never saw this stuff, but then I never went to the forums dedicated to boy band members or cute teen boy actors.
What were these "trolls" saying?
shareIt's dead Jim!!
shareYes. The SVU page alone.
Did people, really hate Olivia Benson that much, lol.
I miss it everyday.
This is a great site, but I as I'm guessing others found it to late.
I also never understood how they thought Twitter would be the substitute. ?