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Two Petitions To Keep The Message Boards Open...

posted 7 years ago by mcdemuth
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I've just heard, that there are TWO petitions, to keep the IMDB message boards open...

Here are the links:

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-to-keep-the-imdb-messageboards-going#

https://www.change.org/p/imdb-stop-imdb-from-disabling-the-message-boards?recruiter=27917358&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink

I really don't want to see IMDb close any of these message boards down. I've been posting on them for over 11 years, and I have never seen another site that has such well rounded topics of discussions... I love being able to talk about just about anything here, and I don't think there really is a place that compares to IMDb. We need this place to keep going!

I know it is a long shot, because most of the time petitions don't work... But every once in awhile, they do... and it can't hurt to try...

I signed BOTH petitions!

Please sign them too, and spread the word about them through the other Message Boards...

The more people that sign them, the better!

[–] virgiltx 7 years ago

It could be that Amazon has some bottom-line issues with the IMDb boards:
-Cost of moderators, storage and bandwidth.
-There is a lot of negativity about movies here. Amazon is trying to sell, and rent those movies. They may have calculated there is more discouragement of movie watching than encouragement.
-There may be pressure from the movie industry if it thinks it's lost money from instances of intense IMDb users' negativity about expensive movies, like Ghostbusters 2016.

The IMDb staff may be entirely in agreement with you, but it's not their call. Amazon is aiming to thin their ranks with this move. IMDb staffers may be afraid to bring these petitions to Amazon management--afraid for their jobs during this process.

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[–] Zero_Wolf 7 years ago

Hmm, just hearing about the closure for the first time now.

That's definitely going to reduce my visits to this site by about 99.9%

I guess the trolls won.

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[–] virgiltx 7 years ago

Re -99.9%, same here.

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