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IMDb message boards
Please see the text below from http://www.imdb.com/board/announcement
In addition, we have created a new Get Satisfaction categories for "I Need to Know" to replace the "I Need to Know" message board and "IMDb Poll" to replace the "IMDb Poll" message board. A post on the Contributors Help board explains the migration path from there to the newly renamed Get Satisfaction category "Data Issues & Policy Discussions" (which is an already active community here).
An FAQ on the closure is now available at http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?boardsclosurefaq
IMDb Message Boards Announcement
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.
Increasingly, IMDb customers have migrated to IMDb’s social media accounts as the primary place they choose to post comments and communicate with IMDb’s editors and one another. IMDb’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/imdb) and official Twitter account (https://twitter.com/imdb) have an audience of more than 10 million engaged fans. IMDb also maintains official accounts on Snapchat (https://www.snapchat.com/add/imdblive), Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/imdbofficial/), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/imdb), and Tumblr (http://imdb.tumblr.com/).
Because IMDb’s message boards continue to be utilized by a small but passionate community of IMDb users, we announced our decision to disable our message boards on February 3, 2017 but will leave them open for two additional weeks so that users will have ample time to archive any message board content they’d like to keep for personal use. During this two-week transition period, which concludes on February 19, 2017, IMDb message board users can exchange contact information with any other board users they would like to remain in communication with (since once we shut down the IMDb message boards, users will no longer be able to send personal messages to one another). We regret any disappointment or frustration IMDb message board users may experience as a result of this decision.
IMDb is passionately committed to providing innovative ways for our hundreds of millions of users to engage and communicate with one another. We will continue to enhance our current offerings and launch new features in 2017 and beyond that will help our customers communicate and express themselves in meaningful ways while leveraging emerging technologies and opportunities.
In addition, we have created a new Get Satisfaction categories for "I Need to Know" to replace the "I Need to Know" message board and "IMDb Poll" to replace the "IMDb Poll" message board. A post on the Contributors Help board explains the migration path from there to the newly renamed Get Satisfaction category "Data Issues & Policy Discussions" (which is an already active community here).
An FAQ on the closure is now available at http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?boardsclosurefaq
IMDb Message Boards Announcement
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.
Increasingly, IMDb customers have migrated to IMDb’s social media accounts as the primary place they choose to post comments and communicate with IMDb’s editors and one another. IMDb’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/imdb) and official Twitter account (https://twitter.com/imdb) have an audience of more than 10 million engaged fans. IMDb also maintains official accounts on Snapchat (https://www.snapchat.com/add/imdblive), Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/imdbofficial/), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/imdb), and Tumblr (http://imdb.tumblr.com/).
Because IMDb’s message boards continue to be utilized by a small but passionate community of IMDb users, we announced our decision to disable our message boards on February 3, 2017 but will leave them open for two additional weeks so that users will have ample time to archive any message board content they’d like to keep for personal use. During this two-week transition period, which concludes on February 19, 2017, IMDb message board users can exchange contact information with any other board users they would like to remain in communication with (since once we shut down the IMDb message boards, users will no longer be able to send personal messages to one another). We regret any disappointment or frustration IMDb message board users may experience as a result of this decision.
IMDb is passionately committed to providing innovative ways for our hundreds of millions of users to engage and communicate with one another. We will continue to enhance our current offerings and launch new features in 2017 and beyond that will help our customers communicate and express themselves in meaningful ways while leveraging emerging technologies and opportunities.
tom_stodola
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80 Points
9 years ago
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kay_d_5141247
6 Messages
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170 Points
9 years ago
It was the only place with up to the minute discussions on everything movie/TV related.
Now where to? I've searched all over for other types of message boards and/or forums but they are old! Even for current shows. There's just seems to be nothing now. Unbelievable really in this age of so-called hi tech internet!
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robert_elliot_7056772
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60 Points
9 years ago
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travis_ruhland
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90 Points
9 years ago
IMDb, please bring back the Message Boards. From interacting with fellow IMDb users, I was able to learn a lot about various Films, Actors, etc. Also, in my experience, I was able to have deep, thoughtful discussions with many users.
I know the boards were banished due to negative comments, but I would like to say my overall experience was extremely positive. I simply didn't participate in the pettiness.
So, please bring them back!!! :)
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dgranger
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85.7K Points
9 years ago
"And here I was going to ask if the new https://www.imdbarchive.com site was yours or not, because I saw that it's ability to insert messages boards onto the IMDB's pages was a nice backdoor way for the IMDb to bring the messages boards back to the IMDb (and user traffic back too) but as someone else's responiblity to supervise them. " You should look into that. Run the message boards as a seperate company under the IMDb brand but linked to the IMDb. As a source of advertising, here is an idea, if a user writes a post praising a film or act or director etc, and etc, place insert a small add advertising the film or DVD, or blu-Ray or advertising one of the director or actor's films next to the post. You guys had a ton of dead white space on those message boards that could have been put to better use.
Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: IMDb Data – Now available in Amazon S3.
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bill_g_skywatcher
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112 Points
9 years ago
I won't be coming back so often. Joy is a precious gift. When it is cruelly cut down, there can be no purpose in supporting the executioner.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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mrmikeob
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82 Points
9 years ago
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honest_commenter
3 Messages
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80 Points
9 years ago
I watch A LOT of movies, but I also play A LOT of games. After I complete each one I rate it on IMDb, to keep a nice list of the best titles I've come across through the years.
The major problem comes in when I want to show someone my ratings for movies to recommend some to them. I have to scroll past about 50 games just to get to the first movie I rated a solid 10 stars.
The same goes for the 9's and 8's seeing as games have less ratings and are almost always higher rated (the witcher 3 is rated 9.8, while the highest movie is a 9.3). This is why I think games and movies/series should be seperated. I mean IMDb already recognise games as "games" so it would be as simple as to add a new section called something like "playlist" or "gamelist".
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john_hurst_414inicucxivo
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80 Points
9 years ago
I as gone for awhile, and when I came back, the message boards seem to be gone.
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mikaela_arsenault
3 Messages
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212 Points
9 years ago
Why do the message boards on IMDB no longer exist anymore? Are they going to make a return in the future?
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petteri_jabg7hkmnxfpj
2 Messages
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72 Points
9 years ago
Hi from Finland
I think IMDB should reintroduce the discussion boards with some changes.
I was thinking of all the obscure movies and people discussed there - you could make friends worldwide with somebody who shared your enthusiasm for something nobody else in the world knew about. I bet some of those people traveled to meet in real life, even married each other...
There was never hate speech on those kind of pages.
But I realize it's hard to know how to define the limits.
On top of automatic removal of posts containing swear words etc, maybe anybody should be able to delete others' posts... and that should be made clear so you'd know your post could go any minute, for no good reason perhaps.
And then, on those pages that had repeated removals/deletions, the discussion feature could be discontinued altogether.
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dan_denekamp
2 Messages
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90 Points
9 years ago
What do you think of my idea for reopening the message boards, only all the topics that existed before they shut it down are no longer there, and posts/replies have to be approved before they appear?
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darrell_jackson_4szgj1n5kkdm4
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80 Points
9 years ago
Im db is jus not the same without real people discussing real talk about the material. Review are fluff garbage. It is utterly impossible for me to formulate an idea about a show without seeing real people with real feed back.. . this is terrible. whos idea was it to silence the community
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jeorj_euler
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226.1K Points
9 years ago
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toni_leigh_6133244
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1.2K Points
9 years ago
I have been away from IMDB well, the net, for a few years now. When I came back I couldn't believe the boards were gone. I even did a web search to find out why and found a few remarks but nothing that showed me this connection. I had been slowly making some contributions again, but what a dimwit I am, I didn't find the link to this until just now.
I won't even mind if no one responds to this because I feel like the newbie I was 15 or so years ago when I first joined IMDB. I welcome any pointers regarding the new system and categores, and discussions.
Well, I'm procrastinating on some work but look forward to reuniting with you. Oh, btw, my user names were ToniHunterOne, Ten-Inch-Toni, PhaedraBlueEyes. I think I'm missing something here.
Take care.
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