Please keep the message board feature. It's the first thing I look at on this site.
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Pete cameron
9 years ago
Let's give this free speech thing a chance
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Rodrigo
9 years ago
I'm just crying, can't say anything more.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
Please keep the boards! Otherwise you will lose a lot of account members...
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Oscar Javier Pinilla Castro
9 years ago
The board is life.
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Kristyn
9 years ago
The message boards are the best thing about imdb!!!
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Joseph E FITZPATRICK
9 years ago
Please keep the boards! They have enriched my life tremendously! Watching movies would not be the same without them
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Anonymous
9 years ago
only reason to visit imdb
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Carla Sanders
9 years ago
I rely on the imdb message boards for information and opinions about shows and movies. It will be a great loss to me.
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Ana
9 years ago
What even IS imdb without the MG board???
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Anonymous
9 years ago
I don't use social media so I wouldn't use the message boards on Facebook, etc.
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Jace Janiero
9 years ago
although this is a very poorly worded petition i agree with every word. it is shameful for IMDB to delete what has come to be the most valuable resource for movie info on the internet
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Neon Neautiful
9 years ago
The idea of having to move the discussion boards to other social media sites, seems like a hasty decision, rather than a thoughtful one:
1) Facebook has a tendency to only view the "most popular" comments, and will be a mess when trying to discuss over a longer period of time. And especially discussions about lesser-known movies will be a mess to find. Which is the main reason I visit IMDB at all: Read about lesser-known movies and lesser-known theories of a character, a storyline or stuff that I didn't notice in the film.
2) Rumors says that IMDB started by people that wanted to come together and discuss movies. Isn't this move then a little ironic? You are essentially killing what gave you your birth.
3) "IMDb is passionately committed to providing innovative ways for our hundreds of millions of users to engage and communicate with one another"
- Nope. You are not passionately commited to us being able to communicate with each other. You are removing the capability of messaging with each other when removing the Message Boards.
4) "Message boards are always temporary in nature: content is not meant to be kept forever"
- Seriously... What? The whole idea of Message Boards is to keep information that people can read, and respond to, whenever they want. This being 1 hour after a thread was being made -- or 5 years! Message Boards are not Facebook or Twitter. They ARE the archive that Facebook and Twitter are not.
The beauty of Message Boards is that it informs everyone, whenever it fits for people to read and respond. The threads and comments does not decay the next day when new info is being posted - it stays independently in an organized way.
It does not seem you have any real experience with Message Boards and what it really stands for, for so many.
Sad.
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Adam King
9 years ago
Use the message boards everyday :'(
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Kevin
9 years ago
Don't disable the message board, just monitor it better.
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Tom Ellis
9 years ago
Give it one more chance please. Trolls will behave, they will miss it too. :-)
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Anonymous
9 years ago
It is a huge boon to watch a film (any film) and then easily find discussions and be able to discuss nuances and plot points with fellow film fans no matter how obscure or forgotten the title.
Please keep the boards alive and don't give up on them just because of a few people on the boards for the biggest mainstream blockbusters
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Billy Dix
9 years ago
Please do not remove the message boards, my few joys in life is to read other peoples opinions and discussions about movies that i love. Your reason is ridiculous give me a break!
Please don't shut the boards. Please.
Please keep the message board feature. It's the first thing I look at on this site.
Let's give this free speech thing a chance
I'm just crying, can't say anything more.
Please keep the boards! Otherwise you will lose a lot of account members...
The board is life.
The message boards are the best thing about imdb!!!
Please keep the boards! They have enriched my life tremendously! Watching movies would not be the same without them
only reason to visit imdb
I rely on the imdb message boards for information and opinions about shows and movies. It will be a great loss to me.
What even IS imdb without the MG board???
I don't use social media so I wouldn't use the message boards on Facebook, etc.
although this is a very poorly worded petition i agree with every word. it is shameful for IMDB to delete what has come to be the most valuable resource for movie info on the internet
The idea of having to move the discussion boards to other social media sites, seems like a hasty decision, rather than a thoughtful one: 1) Facebook has a tendency to only view the "most popular" comments, and will be a mess when trying to discuss over a longer period of time. And especially discussions about lesser-known movies will be a mess to find. Which is the main reason I visit IMDB at all: Read about lesser-known movies and lesser-known theories of a character, a storyline or stuff that I didn't notice in the film. 2) Rumors says that IMDB started by people that wanted to come together and discuss movies. Isn't this move then a little ironic? You are essentially killing what gave you your birth. 3) "IMDb is passionately committed to providing innovative ways for our hundreds of millions of users to engage and communicate with one another" - Nope. You are not passionately commited to us being able to communicate with each other. You are removing the capability of messaging with each other when removing the Message Boards. 4) "Message boards are always temporary in nature: content is not meant to be kept forever" - Seriously... What? The whole idea of Message Boards is to keep information that people can read, and respond to, whenever they want. This being 1 hour after a thread was being made -- or 5 years! Message Boards are not Facebook or Twitter. They ARE the archive that Facebook and Twitter are not. The beauty of Message Boards is that it informs everyone, whenever it fits for people to read and respond. The threads and comments does not decay the next day when new info is being posted - it stays independently in an organized way. It does not seem you have any real experience with Message Boards and what it really stands for, for so many. Sad.
Use the message boards everyday :'(
Don't disable the message board, just monitor it better.
Give it one more chance please. Trolls will behave, they will miss it too. :-)
It is a huge boon to watch a film (any film) and then easily find discussions and be able to discuss nuances and plot points with fellow film fans no matter how obscure or forgotten the title. Please keep the boards alive and don't give up on them just because of a few people on the boards for the biggest mainstream blockbusters
Please do not remove the message boards, my few joys in life is to read other peoples opinions and discussions about movies that i love. Your reason is ridiculous give me a break!
pls keep imdb