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Post by no on Feb 20, 2017 17:26:07 GMT
Explain why/why not.
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Post by michael128 on Feb 20, 2017 17:29:41 GMT
well from a business perspective, they seem to have their reasons. i'm sure they did their research first.
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Post by allaby on Feb 20, 2017 17:36:48 GMT
Pulling the boards was a terrible idea. It made a lot of people angry and many people completely deleted their IMDB account. It is going to reduce traffic o the site and leave people with a bad taste. IMDB used to be a popular, well liked site for many people, but now a lot of people will hate it or boycott it.
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Post by lunacryo on Feb 20, 2017 17:51:40 GMT
For me personally, other than checking the occasional actor/actress to see their work the boards were the main reason I was on that site for over 10 years. Now that they're not there I doubt I'll even go on the site at all. Its sad, for me.
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Post by taranofprydain on Feb 20, 2017 17:58:32 GMT
It was a very bad idea. I think I know why they did it though. IMDb is owned by Amazon, which is now in the movie business. I assume that Amazon got upset at some things said about theur films, or maybe some people who were involved with their films whined about the boards since they could have bruised some egos. And so they closed them.
And that leads to why it is a bad idea. The media framed everyone who used those boards as trolls, which is simply not true. That false ignominy, coupled with the board closure, will turn many people off IMDb. They will use other movie websites and other forums. And site traffic will go down the toilet
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Post by Zeb31 on Feb 20, 2017 18:13:16 GMT
I don't imagine it makes much business sense, since what little they'll save from not having to maintain them will be offset (or surpassed) by the traffic they'll lose now that the one function that set them aside from most other film databases is gone.
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Post by morton on Feb 20, 2017 18:28:52 GMT
Obviously I'm disappointed like most of the posters that have moved here that they closed, so part of me thinks that they should have stayed open since that was the only reason now that I actually visited IMDb since I can get similar information from Wikipedia or elsewhere if I'm just looking up information about a film. However, I do think that it was a big problem that there were so many trolls there, and part of me would sometimes get frustrated at times that there wasn't more done. Sometimes I felt that they should close if they weren't going to put any real effort in moderating there since there were a few times that it felt impossible to really do anything there because of the trolls. There were also times when there was a popular show like Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead where there would be nothing but error messages if I tried to get on the boards and that was very frustrating as well. I just felt that a site that was supposed to be taken seriously and one of the major sites for the entertainment industry wouldn't have had so many technical issues. |
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Post by unfunnyhamster on Feb 20, 2017 18:30:08 GMT
Nope. Next.
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Post by cornnetto on Feb 20, 2017 18:32:13 GMT
I will wait to see that newer platform and what new content will be available to judge that, I would assume they will get more exclusive content for each movie (like interviews with the stars) and that removing a comment section would help for that.
If that happen I would say yes, that it was good (gaining something, while loosing almost nothing)
If there is not new content, that no, it would be not good/not bad idea, just saving a lot of trouble while loosing almost nothing.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Feb 20, 2017 18:35:15 GMT
I'm sure the cost of maintaining the boards wasn't that big of a hit for them, but after getting considerable feedback on the trolls scattered throughout they figured that the boards, which are relatively lax on advertising, wasn't worth maintaining. Surely they also ran through some statistical checks to see what the likely cost of eliminating the boards would be (though whether or not they estimated it accurately we'll see) and IMDb is big enough that any immediate decline in traffic will be assumed to level off and keep the site highly profitable. I know that I now have pretty much no reason to go on there and I've heard others say similarly, but we'll see if it's a sizable enough faction of their base to really make much of a difference.
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Post by cornnetto on Feb 20, 2017 18:54:04 GMT
I'm not sure how we will see, the web site traffic metric are not that clear (maybe I just do know were to check), for example what was the impact on box office mojo removing it's message board year's ago ?
I'm not sure it is easy to know.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 19:02:30 GMT
No. Jesus Christ, no.
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Post by erickeitel on Feb 20, 2017 19:10:17 GMT
I'm sure they had their reasons, but I don't believe the reasons that were provided were the actual ones, but that's to be expected: they wouldn't publicly state their business affairs.
Consider this: "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." Note that he didn't say users, but the IMDb pro users and others who use the site for film industry purposes, rather than their own research or what not. If IMDb gets more out of business revenue than they do clicks per site, then I guess it *is* a good idea. At the time of the closing, the boards were so poorly managed and the Report feature was so improperly used that the forums themselves weren't manageable.
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Post by silenthillfan on Feb 20, 2017 20:55:17 GMT
Not by a long shot
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Post by cornnetto on Feb 20, 2017 21:05:02 GMT
It really hard to tell (I'm not sure how people have a clear opinion) without seeing what the new platform content will be, you are basing your answer on what exactly ?
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Post by Kirk-Picard on Feb 20, 2017 21:06:52 GMT
Personally speaking no,but they obvious did their research and it a business after all and they seek maximum profits
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Post by Feesy on Feb 23, 2017 2:43:32 GMT
No, I don't. The idea of the message board is to promote discussion of whatever topic you please (in this case, movies, awards, etc.) and they're basically taking that aspect away from their site. Anything to take away from the discussion of things, even if it pisses off a smaller part of IMDB's users, is not a great idea.
Btw, why would you bring this topic up if you don't provide any analysis on the situation yourself? I see people do this all the time, I know the idea is to provide a topic, but I find it strange to not offer your own thoughts.
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Post by The-Havok on Feb 23, 2017 4:16:11 GMT
It actually makes plenty of sense management wise. Though it'd be better if Amazon just merged the whole thing onto a smaller, more exclusive function or website.
But even exclusivity isn't discussion devoid
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Feb 24, 2017 3:45:40 GMT
Personally speaking no,but they obvious did their research and it a business after all and they seek maximum profits I'm actually positive that Amazon didn't do any research, and just decided to pull the boards because they knew they weren't making any profits from them. |
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Post by cornnetto on May 1, 2017 3:47:52 GMT
Finally with some time that went on, and if free web traffic tracking are someonwhat accurate: www.rank2traffic.com/imdb.comIMDB volume, after it came down from is usual award season peak, is above the level of 2016 (well of all time). Message board were probably absolutely irrelevant relative to the massive traffic from non message board users like they were saying after all. |
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Post by harlequinade on May 1, 2017 12:28:09 GMT
Finally with some time that went on, and if free web traffic tracking are someonwhat accurate: www.rank2traffic.com/imdb.comIMDB volume, after it came down from is usual award season peak, is above the level of 2016 (well of all time). Message board were probably absolutely irrelevant relative to the massive traffic from non message board users like they were saying after all. That's a shame, what they did really went unpunished or without consequence |
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2017 12:40:28 GMT
Probably
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on May 1, 2017 17:52:35 GMT
I miss the format, but yeah. The place had really gone to hell.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on May 3, 2017 12:34:13 GMT
I haven't really put to much thought into whether it was a good idea from the IMDb perspective, but I doubt it will be too detrimental in terms of visiting numbers to the site.
From a personal perspective, I kinda miss the individual film / show / actor boards, more so than the old home of OB/MA. I would get a lot and useful alternate interpretation on films from their boards and it was nice to read opinions from other on actors who you like or dislike.
OB/MA wise, I was getting pretty tired of the try-hard, aggressive and confrontational nature of a small, but significant pool of the regular posters. You could almost be sure before you clicked into a thread with a large number of responses in it, that it was just something which had deteriorated into a childish back and forth snipe fest between two or more of the regular sniping idiots of the boards latter days. It was turning into a cesspool of shitty negativity and I probably wasn't going to devote too much, if any, of my time to it for that much longer. I'd been posting on the board for over 8 years when the curtain came down. I should miss the place, but I don't...at all.
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