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Hunger Strike

posted 7 years ago by rimnod-17089
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I'm preparing to go on a hunger strike to protest this dumb move by IMDB to destroy some of the most helpful and valuable message boards in all of internetdom.

I've given this a great deal of thought and truly believe that we the users of the IMDB message boards should make a stand-- not just for ourselves but for all those who follow us. That is why I will cease eating solid food come the 20th of February.

The statement that IMDB is making is that all the reasonable and rational users of the message boards are not as important as the trolls and spammers. God in heaven ----there is an ignore button right there. Who is complaining? Who is so emotionally mortally wounded by trolls and spammers that they need to complain to have a thread deleted? All you have to do is press the ignore button. People!

Once these boards are gone they are gone forever ---It would a catastrophe to lose these boards. A disaster for humanity that would rival the burning of the Great Library of Alexandria. Please join me in making a sincere effort to stop this.

[–] vestdennis 7 years ago

Their statement that the boards are not useful to the majority of their users is an outright lie. I have never used their Facebook or Twitter pages. How the hell are fans of TAGS going to talk about episodes, characters, trivia, etc? They are going to lose a LOT of traffic if this happens. I doubt I will visit anymore. What's the point?

[–] rwilkins2 7 years ago

So they are trying to push everyone onto a social media platform? Not gonna happen. We tried Facebook and that is a hot mess. Been off the social media grid over a year and would never go back.

[–] [email protected] (38) 7 years ago

It probably has to do with the 'bottom line' and much less to do with nut jobs ruining a pleasant experience for people. Could it be they just don't want to pay someone to monitor the boards anymore? - unfortunately, in the end it's usually all about the money.