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Without the boards, half the reason to come to IMDB is gone.

I use IMDB for two things. To check a quick movie fact, or to use the message board. Without the boards, this site is little better than Wikipedia.

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Re: Without the boards, half the reason to come to IMDB is gone.

I just checked out that troll fighter oasis board. Opened two film discussions. One was just a bunch of people posting minions memes at each other and another was just an argument about whether or not a film was worth seeing, with a ton of opinions being offered by people who have not seen the movie.

At this rate I'll even miss the trolls.

Movies are IQ tests; the IMDB boards are how people broadcast their score.

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that site is even more of a troll magnet than here

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same here

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Given the only other contribution I make here is that near-useless star rating review for films, I'd say―for those like myself―perhaps 90% of the reason to visit this website will be immolated through the closure of the message boards.

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same here! I come to imdb to see which actor is actor in a particular movie, then the trivia page and then definitely to the comments / message board to see what people are saying about it...

the boards were 50% of the reason I am here, not anymore, will use wiki in the future from now on...



This ain't that Kinda movie!

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Exactly; if I visit a particular actor's or director's page it's to maybe get some info in order to "settle an argument" or something like that. I actually linger on the message boards to discuss a film I'd just seen. To be honest, the message boards are THE most interesting thing about this site.

Yeah, they're dead, they're...all messed up!

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I've been a member for 16 years, and coming to the boards to read other people's opinions and share observations and trivia, etc.

Will definitely be missed!

If IMDb fixes anything at all, it should be the vote rigging which is making a mockery of the ratings.

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It's a massive error- really poor judgement . So many users check a film maybe read a review and.then head to the boards to see what people think / interpret/ etc.

Cannot believe that IMDb could have misread their user base so much. Without boards IMDb is nothing special

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Yes agreed.
The IMDB boards is I head to first when I'm checking out a movie review and opinions.
Will miss this feature once it's gone.

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I actually use this site more than Wikipedia, so I will still be coming here for movie or TV show info.

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Yeah, but much of that info comes from users, which won't be here.

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More like 90%. I always come to IMDB to discuss latest episodes, find information about actors (via the boards) or talk/read about movies I've seen.

Quick movie facts I can find on Wikipedia, or really anywhere else. This is the worst decision I've ever heard of.

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More than half.

I've been posting on the boards since there were boards. Yep, created an IMDB account in the 90s.

Once the boards are gone, I won't be coming to the website any more. I'll also be deleting the apps from my phone and tablet.

No reason to waste space on them.

Needham made a BAD business decision. I'm sure he thinks he's going to increase profits by getting rid of all that server space the message boards take up. But in the end he's going to shoot himself in the foot by eliminating a LOT of traffic. That in turn will result in drop in revenue. Then they'll start to eliminate content that isn't as popular. And so it will continue to spiral until IMDB will be just a shell of it's former glory.

Pity really.

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I will NOT miss endless troll posts about users being upset a certain movie is rated above one they like, I also will not miss the numbers "looks like" threads under every actors boards... but after wading through some of the crap, I will miss some of the more insightful discussions on this board.

I love how some people here complained about the lack of moderation, but on a site like this with thousands of message boards and millions of posts, I can see how that would be hard to do. I don't buy IMDB's explanation for the boards closing down however

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Same here. The main reason I joined IMDb 11 years ago was the very interesting discussions that took place on these message boards. If they shut them down I'll delete my account.

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i spent hours here. literally hours reading message boards.
after this closes i wont even bother checking facts, theres wikipedia for that

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Yeah seriously. The non-message board part of IMDB is something I use for 30 seconds on my phone when I'm watching a movie and say "where did I see that actor before?"

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Without the message boards, this site is worse than Wikipedia.


-I don't watch Fox 'News' for the same reason I don't eat out of the toilet

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More than half for me. With the boards I come here several times a week. Without the boards it would be lucky if I come here once a month.

As that great philosopher Bugs Bunny said, "Something tells me I shoulda stood in bed."

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I'm going to make a good point to use Rotten Tomatoes to look up who directed what movie , etc from here on.

Also it's annoying that this site doesn't give any separation whatsoever from signatures.

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I don't understand the thinking behind this decision - the main reason we use IMDB is for the message boards.

I often look up actors I like to find more films/programs they've been in or to look at what other users say about the next movie I plan to see.

Kill the boards and you kill IMDB - why can't they see this?
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