@AlienFanatic said:

@forkbeard said:

I looked at very few boards on IMDb, but I did have the displeasure of looking on the Game of Thrones board. It would be hard to believe that anything could be worse.

I was watching a CNN live YouTube feed concerning hurricane Irma recently and in the top right corner there was a live chat feed. Within a brief few seconds before I closed it I watched something like "kill all niggers" fly past. It beggars belief.

Not really. In every discussion there are disruptors. Even in public forums it's not uncommon for some crackpot to stand up and spout gibberish. However, I think we pay far too much attention to their behavior and that is why they continue to circle back and annoy us. It still amazes me that people address them directly instead of simply ignoring them. If people would just stop acknowledging them they'd fail to receive the attention they desire and they'd be forced to find some other outlet.

Seriously, ignore the trolls and never, ever talk to them. The pattern is always the same: say something irritating and if that fails increase the vitriol until someone responds. At some point even the most ardent troll--at least those that aren't truly mentally unstable--will run out of energy and stop. Why people can't accept this is beyond me.

Don't. Feed. The. Trolls.

Ever.

I'm not sure what you're saying "not really" to ;)

Ignoring them is the best course of action, I cannot disagree.

The problem with boards such as Game of Thrones is that they were swamped with crazy posts. The ratio of genuine posts to joke posts was so low that it made the boards unreadable/unusable. One could go through and create ignore lists but it would be far to time consuming to bother. Some of the people who posted sensible posts were also part time trolls, so the ignore list option doesn't work in those cases.

The boards were littered with "difficult" people and many would pass a troll test.

i honestly dont think it was due to trolls

remember what happened with Fantastic Four

that right there is the main reason for shutting down real free speech

imdb was infected with shills. in the case of fantastic four the shills were contracted to put it down

@MongoLloyd said:

Alien: Covenant: 6.8/10 66,080 votes

Their reviews are now based only on most helpful. I use to love separating them by date. Now if someone from a studio wants to flood the top helpfulness reviews than can very easily

@drjekel_mrhyde said:

@MongoLloyd said:

Alien: Covenant: 6.8/10 66,080 votes

Their reviews are now based only on most helpful. I use to love separating them by date. Now if someone from a studio wants to flood the top helpfulness reviews than can very easily

Not sure what you mean.

@tmdb65271336 said:

If you've kept an eye on IMDB after they killed their forums, they immediately moved to advertising themes for the pages for major releases. Studios can pay for a complete color and image "theme" on the IMDB page for a given movie. I said this when IMDB killed their forums, but I strongly believe it had little or nothing to do with the "trolls" and was instead a reaction to the failure of movies like Ghostbusters.

When many consumers will go to a website like IMDB before deciding to attend a movie, negative reviews can influence their decision. Comment sections, especially, can create a strong impression. (So can the user reviews, which i'm surprised the IMDB still allows.) I think that by making their pages less interactive, IMDB hoped to control the message a little better and I think they sold this to the studios. Cutting off more lively user feedback allows the studios and the IMDB to project a more positive image of a film.

Like Netflix, who is moving to thumbs-up and thumbs-down instead of stars, I expect that the IMDB will eventually get rid of its point-based system. That will be all the confirmation I need to conclude that I was right about them.

The IMDB forums were more entertaining than most movies. With all the movie review and info sites around now, there is no reason to visit IMDB ever again unless they bring back their message boards.

@tlm550 said:

@tmdb65271336 said:

If you've kept an eye on IMDB after they killed their forums, they immediately moved to advertising themes for the pages for major releases. Studios can pay for a complete color and image "theme" on the IMDB page for a given movie. I said this when IMDB killed their forums, but I strongly believe it had little or nothing to do with the "trolls" and was instead a reaction to the failure of movies like Ghostbusters.

When many consumers will go to a website like IMDB before deciding to attend a movie, negative reviews can influence their decision. Comment sections, especially, can create a strong impression. (So can the user reviews, which i'm surprised the IMDB still allows.) I think that by making their pages less interactive, IMDB hoped to control the message a little better and I think they sold this to the studios. Cutting off more lively user feedback allows the studios and the IMDB to project a more positive image of a film.

Like Netflix, who is moving to thumbs-up and thumbs-down instead of stars, I expect that the IMDB will eventually get rid of its point-based system. That will be all the confirmation I need to conclude that I was right about them.

The IMDB forums were more entertaining than most movies. With all the movie review and info sites around now, there is no reason to visit IMDB ever again unless they bring back their message boards.

I enjoyed the boards at times, though they were perverse :(

I still use IMDb, maybe force of habit. What sites would you say were better? (present site excluded of course)

I hate imdb as much as anyone, but I think yall might be reading too deep into the studio conspiracy theory. Websites like IMDb make their money through advertising, and that's purely based on traffic. So even a movie that everyone's slamming will be money for IMDb if the pages are drawing a crowd. In fact that's one of the youtube angles: put up a shocking offensive video that'll go viral, you still make money (Logan Paul).

I happen to believe IMDb's explanation that trolls ruined the forums. I've run a site before, not nearly as big as imdb, but big enough to know it sucks to dedicate half your resources to moderators and fielding emails all because some 12 year old neo nazi is getting his rocks off. Like imdb I pulled the plug on the forum because of that. If your site has traffic in other areas, forums are the first to get cut because they're way too much work, as opposed to static pages you put up and forget about.

As for the rating of 6.8, I think that's pretty average. I don't even take note of a rating unless it's above 8 or below 6. I think everything else balances out between fanboys & trolls in the 6-8 area.

@mechajutaro said:

What was the name of you website, Roo?

Lol it had nothing to do with movies, it was a site about dog humor & dog related wastes of time (scoopdogs.com long gone). With me actually it wasn't haters or trolls that brought it down, it was mostly spammers posting nonstop ads trying to sell their dog food and chew toys and stuff 😒

I have the highest respect for the people running tmdb for keeping this place clean and well oiled. It's a LOTTA work (or maybe I was just really bad at it haha).