Hidden Figures : Amazon's decision to close the message boards…

Amazon recently announced a decision to close the IMDB message boards. In the following link I explain how google made the opposite decision, and put decades worth of content from the old USENET newsgroups back online decades after everyone assumed they were gone for good. http://www.imdb.com/board/14846340/board/nest/265343300?d=265816704#265816704 I estimated that google valued that old content, that everyone had seen as ephemeral, at tens of millions of dollars. I suggested that, even if Amazon couldn't justify running the message boards, they should methodically archive the remaining content, and make it available for scholarly study.

And I offered one of my email addresses - email:booledozer@yahoo.com - to anyone here who found anything I wrote here worthy of further comment, who wished to correspond with me.

Cheers! Best wishes everyone!

There are several other threads where respondents encourage us to lobby Bezos, or his executives, to keep the fora open.

I don't petition executives to reverse their decisions to change their minds, and fund further seasons for shows they cancelled. You don't get to be a CEO, remain a CEO, by being a wishy-washy policy reverser.

But I do think it is worth pointing out that it would be a lot less expensive to archive all the comments that remain on the board in February 2017, and make that archive available to serious scholars.

Archive available to serious scholars????? That is the most ridiculous but at the same time hilarious comments I've seen for some time.

Sorry, but google totally biffed their acquisition of dejanews. Each "update" made it harder and harder to access usenet content, turning a useful resource into a disaster. For all practical purposes its gone now. Citing google's valuing of usenet is just about the worst argument you can make.

Overall a good move. Lots of bigotry, expletives, and worthless hate speech in most comment sections.

Very few boards are decent.

Not really.
There is a ton of siht in the comments for popular mainstream movies.
That's just nature of lowest-common denominator populations.

But when they are not ghost-towns, the comments for even slightly obscure movies are often goldmines of insight.

The death of these message boards came when millennial idiots came onto the movie forums to call every classic movie "racist" because they just learned that word in their history class, and they wanted to call "The Godfather" a racist movie because it doesn't have enough black people, and "Apocalypse Now" a racist movie because it's harsh on Vietnamese, and "Jaws" is racist becausewell, you get the picture.

SJWs ruin everything for everyone. They try to provoke a response, and when they get it, they go crying to the authorities. In this case, the board admins.

Make no mistake: These boards are going away for fear of litigation over information requests because someone (SJWs) feel they were threatened.

May I ask where you go this nonsense tidbit from?

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May I ask where you go this nonsense tidbit from?

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Experience, EFFTARD

Imdb has disclaimers about how they're not responsible for the content here, so it has nothing to do with what was being said. Or somehow an entire generation deciding to register and comment about how they're offended, as silly as that would be to claim. If I had to guess, i'd say the boards are being closed because not enough people here use it to be economically viable. It's not some conspiracy or censorship, it's a business choice.


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