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Seems like it's going the way of imdb. Getting to be so many posts by trolls that are being douches on purpose, generally complaining about things being "too woke" or "not woke enough." Or politics. It'd be nice if everyone could knock it off so it doesn't just shut down like imdb was. Just a bummer, because all these years later, and this is the best successor I've found, and it's not even a tenth as great as imdb was in its heyday (I know, mods, you're trying, and like I said, it's the best, so not throwing shade at you). And it's taken time to build up. Anything I've found that's more active tends to be for a specific show or something and who has time for that. Probably trolls.

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It's going to be like that anywhere. I quit Twitter long ago because of all the stupidity. YouTube has dumb comments too.

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The remnants of the imdb forums were always going to be the trolls.

Imdb forums were using homebrewed forum software that had its own problems, i suspect they were planning on decomissioning it for quite a while

Even in its hey day imdb forums were not designed to keep absolute records of all that people posted on them and things llike disappearing topics showed the aging software needed to be replaced

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Getting to be so many posts by trolls that are being douches on purpose, generally complaining about things being "too woke" or "not woke enough."


I tend to agree. Why are so many people so angry and outraged??

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THAT STATEMENT IS JUST CRAZY! I AM OUTRAGED!

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These days, instead of "everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame," it's now "everyone wants their 15 minutes of outrage."

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AT LEAST YOU HAVE ME.🙂

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Don't fall into the trap of thinking everyone who disagrees with you is a troll. There are a lot of political conservatives here. They believe what they say.

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It's a bit of an easy "out" for the easily offended types to just brand someone a troll just because they are hearing things that challenge them. Whether it be political or something else. I have been banned from forums for simply expressing a different opinion or standing up to people who have tried to bully me in some way.

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It's the nature of social media message boards like this that there will always be trolls trying to stir shit up.

They are (& always will be) in the minority of posters overall. Best to just ignore them & not engage with them. I don't think this site has gotten anywhere near the level that IMDb had gotten towards the end, especially on the TWD & GoT boards which the trolls had completely taken over. When this site started, those same trolls tried to take over here too, but luckily the mods here did a good job of nuking them right away, & they all ended up on filmboards.com, which makes the troll level here look tame by comparison.

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I can remember times when on IMDB new comments were being added at such speed that I could not read them. The champion for speed though had to be ESPN, after a big game with some controversy. I can see the logic in what both companies had to do. There weren't trolls, but maybe worse, irate fans!

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Just block the people you see as being trolls and enjoy the parts of the forum you like. At least politics is on a different board altogether so you can side step that mess altogether.

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Hollywood has drastically changed in the last 8 years. It has been completely captured by racist, sexist woke ideologues who disdain the general public. Therefore, it’s impossible to have an honest discussion about contemporary film without mentioning the gigantic elephant with blaring sirens in the room. Hollywood now produces woke propaganda posing as ‘films’ and it’s killing the whole industry. You cannot expect cinema enthusiasts to pretend nothing is going on.

The other difference with imbd is the general IQ drop. The sheer number of people here who cannot think, reason, do anything other than fart out nonsensical emotional diarrhoea in atrociously bad English is…depressing. Sure, imdb had plenty of retards, but here you really have to sift through several mental hospitals before you can find a poster who is sane, articulate and interesting.

They’re out there, though, and the mods here do a pretty good job of zapping the worst trolls and not falling for false reports by nasty little shits trying to ban proper users.

It’s great to have a place which has preserved all the old imdb message boards and where you can speak freely, we just need to attract a better quality of user by making better quality posts.

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Imagine someone using the word "retard" claiming to be sane and articulate. That says it all about this message board.

It's never going to move beyond a site of trolls because that's 75% of the posters here.

The country is more left of center than you think. Audiences are diverse and you are the one who needs to change.

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Prime example of the kind of woke prick we’re dealing with ☝️

Language policing, strawmanning, gaslighting… right out of the gate.

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💥💯

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Typical middle-aged, white male grieving that he can no longer freely call someone a "retard."

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There’s that racism and sexism I mentioned, with some ageism thrown in. It’s funny that you nasty little woke maggots think you’re ‘progressive’ when you’re the exact opposite.

As a censorious little Hitler, it must really piss you off that I am free to call you a ‘retard’, ya woke fuckin retard.

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The OP was complaining about your type of posts.

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The OP mistakenly thought that complaints about wokism were illegitimate or in some way a form of trolling, I corrected him.

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Your post belongs in Politics.

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No it doesn’t, it wouldn’t make any sense there, it’s a reply to the OP. Your attempt to censor me is failing. I suggest you stop.

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General Discussion: Talk about anything here...except politics.

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It’s good to see you dropping the caps at last, but unfortunately you’re making no sense. What are you talking about?

(Remember, if you use obnoxiously use all-caps I won’t be reading your reply)

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Looks like I hit a nerve, didn't I? LOL!

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No, you’re just projecting because you’re unbelievably butthurt that you weren’t able to censor me from accurately describing you as a woke retard.

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AWW...LOOK AT HIM THROWING A TANTRUM.🙂

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I don’t read obnoxious all-caps posts. Retype your reply properly if you want me to read it.

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Typical anti white male misandrist who hates straight white males.
Why you being racist and sexist?

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Another language policing Wokie imposing his puritanical ideology onto the rest of us.
You sound like the kind of woke Dunderhead that would ban the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because it has a character named Ν***gеrJim.

[Edited by Mod 5]

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YOU ARE ONE OF THE BIGGEST TURDS HERE...YOU ARE THE POSTER BOY FOR THE WRONG KIND OF POSTER...ANYONE WHO COMES ACROSS YOU CONTEMPLATES LEAVING THE SITE...A PROPER USER YOU ARE NOT.🙂

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Yes, It's pretty sad that half of the conversations in the non-political part of the site revolve around these types of posters complaining about how Hollywood has been taken over by people who don't cater to their particular political or cultural beliefs.

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Well, since Hollywood has been taken over by woke retards, and it is having a detrimental effect on movies and TV shows, by catering to a small minority of woke degenerates and forcing it on the rest of us who don't want it, it makes perfect sense that this would be a frequent topic of discussion within a community like this. And that is a good thing.

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Well said.

Wokies already know what you’re saying to be true, they just pretend they’re naive to it in the hope of gaslighting everyone into thinking the woke takeover of Hollywood isn’t happening, when it so blatantly is.

It’s reminiscent of when the Nazis tried to pretend the holocaust wasn’t happening… so that it could continue.

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"Gaslighting" is exactly the right word for it. This is a common experience I've had when interacting with the Wokerati. First, if you mention wokeness, some woke retard will inevitably come along and demand you define it. They do this because they know that it is a nebulous term that isn't easy to define, so they try to trip you up on the definition, this way they can claim that you don't even know what you're talking about because you can't defined it. Luckily, I've come up with a good working definition of "woke" so I always take these retards up on their offer. I explain to them that the term is nebulous and is an umbrella term for a constellation of ideas, but then I provide them with a clear definition. Once they realize that they are dealing with a thoughtful person making a reasonable argument, they then turn to gaslighting you, telling you that there is no such thing as cancel culture, forced diversity, or anti-straight white male sentiments in the media. They will claim there is no agenda being pushed. And finally, once you prove to them that all those things do indeed exist, they will resort to calling you a bigot, sexist, racist, homophobe, transphobe, etc. just because you don't want everything you watch to look like a rainbow flag.
This is the M.O. of the Wokerati... the lowest form of life... lower than pond scum.


Wokeness is cancer, it poisons everything.

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It’s like clockwork. Either they’re working off a script, or these are the natural tactics of any deceiver. Either way, it’s entirely predictable. I enjoy dismantling their process while they’re doing it, and sometimes it’s fun to call out their dull tactics before they use them - that one really pisses them off 🤣

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🤣

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What is hilarious is when people like you chant the go woke go broke sentiment. Thing is you cherry pick and only highlight the woke films which fail financially. It can't be because they are badly made it is because they are woke. However notice how whenever a film that is woke succeeds financially you go silent. I love the whining that goes on from you guys it makes me enjoy the films even more knowing it outrages people like you.

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I see you're now rage-stalking me after you got rinsed in that Glass Onion thread 🤣

Pathetic.

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I’d love to hear what you have to say but, as I’ve told you many times before, I don’t read obnoxious all-caps posts.

I doubt I’m missing much, they say still waters run deep… you’re the exact opposite - a roaring retard who leaves the caps lock on, constantly screaming for attention. I’m gonna bet you’re another wokist - your low IQ attention craving, and the fact that you crawl out whenever someone calls out wokeness, point to you being an apologist for woke. Someone correct me if I’m wrong on that.

So, rewrite your reply properly if you want me to read it.

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YOU READ WHAT I SAID...THEN YOU EMBARRASSED YOURSELF WITH ANOTHER BULLSHIT PARAGRAPH ABOUT HOW YOU ARE AWESOME AND THE WORLD IS AGAINST YOU.😘

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Serious question:
What is with your Caps Lock? Is your Caps Lock button broken? Perhaps a new keyboard might be a good investment.

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AWW...HIM CLEVER.

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No, I really want to know. Why do you do it? I'm curious.

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He's mistaken a gimmick for personality.

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The thing is, now I'm curious. I have to know, I have to get inside this guy's "touched" mind. I want to know what is going on inside that "special" brain of his. What confluence of retardation made him turn out this way.

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It’s the internet equivalent of a toddler walking into a room full of adults and YELLING as loud as it can for attention… constantly.

Notice how ‘Kowalski’ has run away from the question. You finally got him to shut the fuck up 🍻

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Nailed it.

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You're missing nothing. If you want to hear about his dick, keep talking to him.

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Why does this not surprise me?

I’m surprised the mods allow him to run amok, derailing threads with his narcissistic look-at-me garbage wherever he can.

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I ONLY DERAIL BULLSHIT THREADS...WHICH IS WHY YOU ARE SO FAMILIAR WITH ME...YOU ARE MISTER BULLSHIT.😘

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I don’t read obnoxious all-caps posts. Retype your reply properly if you want me to read it.

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If your IQ is so much higher than everyone else's, maybe you should spend less time here, and more at the Mensa Community Hang Out.

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Nah I’m fine here, somebody’s got to educate the likes of you, and deprogram you from the woke cult.

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Not true, people like him make this site better. We don't need this place to turn into an echo chamber. There should be people from all ideologies expressing their views and battling it out with each other. If this site turned into a safe space for woke dunderheads, then I would leave the site, and on the flip side, if it became a Nazi echo chamber where you just have genuine racists talking to each other, I would also leave. Having a battle of ideas is why I stay on this website. Also, it has been relatively good on the free speech front. Certainly better than, Yahoo, YouTube, or Twitter. Here at least, I'm allowed to get a little spicy, even use racial slurs, which can be fun depending on the context. So far I have only had a few posts removed because they were considered to encourage violence or self harm. I don't agree with the decision, because in both cases I was clearly being facetious and over the top, but I do understand that mods sometimes like to play it safe when it comes to that kind of thing.
I think this site is pretty good, and users like Drooch make it better.

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MAKES SENSE...YOU'RE A TURD TOO...THE BOTH OF YOU CAN FLUSH EACH OTHER ANY TIME.😘

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Wow, we had such a nice moment bonding over Office Space, and this is how you treat me?
Here I come in the spirit of friendship and solidarity carrying an olive branch, and you slap it out of my hand.
I'm very disappointed in you. Do better.

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DROOCH IS GARBAGE...YOUR ENDORSEMENT OF THE GARBAGE MAKES YOU GARBAGE AS WELL.

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Don’t expect humanity from a shrieking woke narcissist like ‘Kowalski’.

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Yeah, I was mostly fucking with him. The Caps Lock, the atrocious use of the English language (if you can call it that), the woke narcissism, and the vacuous petty insults, definitely makes him one of the more "special" individuals on this site.

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Racial slurs are not ok.

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They should be. The internet used to be free. It was a glorious time and now it has become so sanitized. People used to be able to say whatever they wanted and nobody cared. Nobody took it too seriously. We need to get back to that.
I would really encourage the mods here to lean towards greater freedom of speech.

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You're upset because you want to be racist on this site.
You're reminiscing for the good old days of racial epithets.
You're advocating for hate.

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It's not hate. It's fun.

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Fun like the KKK lynching black people?

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No, that is hate and not fun.

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"So far I have only had a few posts removed because they were considered to encourage violence or self harm."

No surprise.

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Excellent comment. Couldn't have said it better myself.
I think this website is great. Criticizing the woke disease that is spreading throughout our culture is not trolling. Wokies perceive any and every criticism as trolling. They think that their ideology is above reproach; To them it's the only permissible world view, and like the religious zealots that they are, they refuse to entertain the notion that someone with a different point of view might have a legitimate critique.
Likewise, I agree that there are a great many illiterate rеtаrdѕ who frequently butcher the English language on this forum, however, it doesn't bother me as much as others; Slaying rеtаrdѕ on the internet for sport is an enjoyable past time for me.


Wokeness poisons everything.

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YOU SOUND LIKE A COMPLETE IDIOT.🙂

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Why you being hostile bro?

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I wonder if the mods could somehow open another category devoted to “Wokeism in Film”, although I’m guessing wokeism isn’t an official word yet.

That way the people who love this topic could have a forum all to themselves, somewhat like the politics section. Wouldn’t that be great?

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YES...YES IT WOULD.

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No, I prefer being able to criticize a woke movie/tv show on the thread dedicated to the actual show/movie. It is a good way to let people know whether there is wokness in the show/movie so that they know what they are getting into.
Having said that, it doesn't mean that we can't also have a thread dedicated to wokeness in general.

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DELUSIONAL IS A GOOD WORD FOR THIS SHIT.🤨

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In what way is it delusional?

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*crickets*

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It's funny, when I first encountered this guy he would respond to literally every post I would make, always criticizing it and being a dick in the process. So naturally, I would respond by verbally eviscerating this retard, using my superior intelligence and sharp wit. Yet, he continued to come back for more. I never understood why. I've speculated that he might have some sort of a humiliation fetish.
A few days ago, like clockwork, I post something, and the retard responds to it with his usual vacuous criticism and petty insults, but on this day, I wasn't really in the mood for slaying retards, so instead of a zig I zagged; I decided to just ask him a question — Why? It turns out that this simple question short circuits his brain and causes a shutdown sequence to initiate. The same thing happened here. Still *crickets*. LOL

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Here's a recent post you shared:

Benoit Blanc is now gay
posted a month ago by Drooch (5308)
320 replies | jump to latest
No way was Ruin Johnson going to have a straight white male hero, so he’s retconned Blanc to be gay - a pointless and obvious woke move.

I’m half way through and Johnson’s anti-white racism is on full display as expected.

What a prick.

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Yes.

Your point?

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You're either THE poster boy or a great parody of one.

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What do you mean ‘THE poster boy’?

The poster boy of what?

Make sense.

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You're the poster boy of a homophobe and racist.

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To a wokie, everything is homophobic and racist. Those words have lost all their meaning. When a woke retard calls me a racist, homophobe, sexist, or transphobe, I wear it like a badge of honor. I laugh at you.

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Since I only post here and on usually non-block-buster film boards, I see virtually none of that. I get the anti-PC take, tend to agree with it somewhat, but again, my experience here is that the IQ level is pretty high.

An absolute requirement, long term, to keep boards from going toxic is effective moderation. We are so very fortunate to have that here.

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my experience here is that the IQ level is pretty high

I guess these things are relative.

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