IMPORTANT: IMDb is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb’s message boards on February 20, 2017. This includes the Private Message system. After in-depth discussion and examination, we have concluded that IMDb’s message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide. The decision to retire a long-standing feature was made only after careful consideration and was based on data and traffic. See more
Unless this is some sort of cruel joke- Imdb is going away on the 20th,
**~Not my circus, not my monkeys...~**
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we have concluded that IMDb's message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide.
I couldn't agree with them more.
<“Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking, Nerf-herder!” — Princess Leia to Han>
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Posts photos of your privates on Twitter - (I won't post a link to his ugly small thing) Writes death stories about a user Writes death stories about a users children Writes death stories about being a woman with children - https://postimg.org/image/5offp0kjx/
More than one user went to the police because of YOU
I'd say you being outed on here then had the tables turned on you was very well deserved.
Poor little you was stalked for less than a weekend & you just couldn't handle it but you stalked, harassed and tormented other users for at least 2yrs that I know of. How do you think they felt?
Trust me you pervert, EVERY ONE is so glad your playground is being taken away. YOU have hurt so many people here with your disgusting, perverted mind. I'm not going to respond to you or your socks. So reply all you want.
Just like you did this with your nutty posts this past week this message here can easily be reposted for all to see who you are and what you have done to others.
Images are from Bookman, myself and other users. More images will be added. If any of you have your own which I know you do from what Bookman told me months ago just message me & I'll tell you where to upload them. I will edit out your user name & profile picture if requested. reply share
Posts photos of your privates on Twitter - (I won't post a link to his ugly small thing) Writes death stories about a user Writes death stories about a users children Writes death stories about being a woman with children - https://postimg.org/image/5offp0kjx/
More than one user went to the police because of YOU
I'd say you being outed on here then had the tables turned on you was very well deserved.
Poor little you was stalked for less than a weekend & you just couldn't handle it but you stalked, harassed and tormented other users for at least 2yrs that I know of. How do you think they felt?
Trust me you pervert, EVERY ONE is so glad your playground is being taken away. YOU have hurt so many people here with your disgusting, perverted mind. I'm not going to respond to you or your socks. So reply all you want.
Just like you did this with your nutty posts this past week this message here can easily be reposted for all to see who you are and what you have done to others.
Images are from Bookman, myself and other users. More images will be added. If any of you have your own which I know you do from what Bookman told me months ago just message me & I'll tell you where to upload them. I will edit out your user name & profile picture if requested.
This memo was just sent to me by Jeannette_Mary, via private message. She wanted me to share it with all of you.
"Ok, so the results just came back from the lab, and yes, dammit, I have Herpes. I thought something was wrong, since my vajayja was constantly oozing, and there were all these sores around my ass crack. That's what I get for letting that bum use my Hershey Highway. You'd think I would've learned, after that incident at college. Apparently, I didn't, and now, I'm stuck.
This is almost as bad as the abortion I had in 1977. I didn't want to get rid of my kid, but there was no way I was gonna go to high school pregnant. They already thought I was a hore, so you can imagine what my showing up 8 months pregnant would make them think.
Oooo! I hope this cream works! I am all seriously itchy!"
This memo was just sent to me by Jeannette_Mary, via private message. She wanted me to share it with all of you.
"Ok, so the results just came back from the lab, and yes, dammit, I have Herpes. I thought something was wrong, since my vajayja was constantly oozing, and there were all these sores around my ass crack. That's what I get for letting that bum use my Hershey Highway. You'd think I would've learned, after that incident at college. Apparently, I didn't, and now, I'm stuck.
This is almost as bad as the abortion I had in 1977. I didn't want to get rid of my kid, but there was no way I was gonna go to high school pregnant. They already thought I was a hore, so you can imagine what my showing up 8 months pregnant would make them think.
Oooo! I hope this cream works! I am all seriously itchy!"
Mary you have strange fantasies. My God Mary, it really sucks to be you. reply share
That's too bad. I really liked these boards. I had some good discussions over the yrs. But it does seem to have gotten quite hostile over the last couple of yrs. I gather they just didn't want to do with the crap anymore. I wish they would reconsider though. But I don't know what safeguards they could put in place. Sad announcement.
Please do, Speedy. If it's money I'd be willing to pay a small monthly or yearly fee to keep up the cost of running the boards & moderators. But sounds like IMDB has already made up their minds.
This is an excerpt from that post (there is a lot more about how they have been upgrading IMDB):
"For years, our customers have done nothing but complain about how the boards are run, what features are missing and how angry they are about how other users have treated them. This is reflected in the relative traffic shrinkage of the boards. We have reached the point where most of our customers do not even know they exist; many that do know about them have been scared away after bad experiences. We have lost a non-trivial number of customers due to bad experiences on the boards. This is wrong on so many levels."
From the excerpt:
most of our customers do not even know they [the message boards] exist;
Maybe this explains why the ratings on a show's homepage can be high while the consensus of the message board posters for the same show is something like "It should have been cancelled last season!"
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If you count down 13 replies to that post (including deleted ones), currently 19 posts altogether, there is a post by "ydobon-1" - see if you don't recognize the tone and style.
This link should go to that post (used the chain icon):
I should have highlighted this part of the excerpt:
many that do know about them [the message boards] have been scared away after bad experiences. We have lost a non-trivial number of customers due to bad experiences on the boards. This is wrong on so many levels."
For IMDB to make this decision, they must have arrived at the conclusion that message boards like this have a fatal flaw: they end up with a high concentration of abusive posters - even if they are all just one person. I don't know why IMDB allows people to have multiple accounts, but yuckyflappy has assured us it's not against the rules. As long as that's the case there will be people who will do it to create artificial activity, play good cop bad cop, and draw in unsuspecting people who only came to discuss. In time most of those people will leave and the result will be a higher concentration of abusive posters.
It reminds me of the way uranium is enriched.
It also points to the need to be able to identify people absolutely, which is what leads to the mark of the beast.
I don't know why IMDB allows people to have multiple accounts, but yuckyflappy has assured us it's not against the rules.
Why should it be against the rules? Grace is Bookman. She's also Jeannette_Mary and KrazyKuntgrl. Nothing wrong with it.
Trouble is, you want your own personal playground, and you want to play by your own rules. Uh-uh, doesn't work that way, Sally.
Face it. You've lost. Actually, you lost with your first posting. And no amount of crying or begging or signing petitions is gonna stop the message boards from disappearing.
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