Are you returning to IMDB now the message boards have reopened?
Also happy April 1st everyone (at least it is here in the UK)
shareI had not heard this.
Nah, fuck them. MC4LYF!
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They have, really? That's interesting, but at this moment, no - MAYBE later.
shareI'll check it out.
Perhaps go and chat about movies since that rarely happens here.
THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT ARE THE PEOPLE WHO DIRECT ATTENTION AWAY FROM MOVIE TALK.
shareWell having a Politics Board doesn't help on a movie forum no less nor Donald Trump basically being discussed here 98% of the time, but it is what it is folks.. He is a Celebrity/ Awesome President. What more could you ask for?? 🤔
shareFAQ about the boards closure, just in case anyone is interested.
help.imdb.com/article/Valerian/faq/1/G5HU888HZYE8LF79
That does not answer what I suspect would be the number one FAQ which is:
What exactly was the real reason why the boards closed?
All I ever get are just theories, guesses, speculation and other BS as to why users think they did, which is always blaming trolls, but never anything from the source themselves.
No. They've never said definitively -- and they never will now -- but we can make sensible guesses.
This...
in the end [we] concluded that they no longer provide a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide.
... would indicate that there was a trolling problem. Or at least a perceived trolling problem. Certainly, fairly or unfairly, the IMDb boards had gained a wider reputation for being a haven for trolls.
But they didn't close the boards down because of trolls. They could have fixed the trolling problem by paying moderators, but it would have cost them money to do so.
That '250 million monthly users' tells us something too, because Amazon claimed that the overwhelming majority of visitors to the site never used the boards anyway. I can't find it now, but think the figure they gave was 7%. In raw numbers that's still a lot of board users, but it means that the boards were never at the core of IMDb's success. It was always about the database.
So you're Amazon. Your core business is retail. And part of one of your sites that only 7% of your visitors use has a bad reputation, which may be damaging your brand. Advertising isn't worth as much as it could be because advertisers don't like to associate themselves with that crap [see Twitter, currently], so profits are not where they might be. You can either throw money at the problem to fix it or you can just get rid of it.
And, finally, we arrive at the most likely reason Amazon really closed the IMDb boards -- the only reason these decisions are ever made by big corporations: it wasn't financially worthwhile to them to keep hold of them.
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Yeah, all we got is guesses which is not the same as knowing what it is for sure.
I think you are right and agree that revenue is the best one.
I just don't see how trolls are that powerful to bring it down and Bezos would cut non money makers to make more money.
I don't remember if it had ads like we get on here.
Ultimately, it's always about the bottom line.
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