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 Posted:   Feb 4, 2017 - 3:45 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Just saw this on IMDb:
IMPORTANT: IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb's message boards on February 20, 2017. This includes the Private Message system. After in-depth discussion and examination, we have concluded that IMDb's message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide. The decision to retire a long-standing feature was made only after careful consideration and was based on data and traffic.

Further details:
http://www.imdb.com/board/announcement


That's a shame. Facebook is certainly not a better place and I can't say five years from now it'll be there or what it is now.

 
 Posted:   Feb 4, 2017 - 4:41 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

We're already lamenting this here:

http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=118763&forumID=7&archive=0

 
 Posted:   Feb 4, 2017 - 4:51 AM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

Somehow I completely missed that, sorry.

 
 Posted:   Sep 12, 2017 - 4:30 PM   
 By:   Justin Boggan   (Member)

I remember some people speculated one of the reasons for getting rid of the board is to remove negative comments because may studios were complaining.

Well, lo and behold, looks what I see today over at IMDb: the star rating system that was on the top of every page of every projects, is gone for newert pages (it' still there on older ones). It's been relegated to the user ratings sidbar link, where it's broken down by demographic and male/female viewership. Yeah, like that means shit to me. You have to lick on that page now to vote. Hopefully this is not a new norm.

 
 Posted:   Sep 12, 2017 - 10:29 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

The internet and social media finally empowered the average person. (for the good and for the worse) Those with little money or power finally had a voice on a universal stage. Big corps are freaking out now and have gone on a rampage the last 12 months in squashing dissenting voices. Do any news search on Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc, and read how they are making up reasons to "censor" what is said, posted and read online.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 1, 2021 - 12:51 AM   
 By:   Bob DiMucci   (Member)

I recently received an e-mail from the IMDB touting their top contributors for 2020. Someone with the screen name of "inespape-1" made 2,600,340 submissions to the IMDB last year. For those keeping count. that's about one every 12 seconds, 24 / 7 / 365. (or in the case of last year, 366).

 
 Posted:   Jan 3, 2021 - 4:19 AM   
 By:   Jehannum   (Member)

In an Amazon book review, I'd mentioned that 1-star ratings for the book were (justifiably) at 25 percent. However, I recently found out that 1-star reviews had fallen to 10 percent.

This couldn't have happened naturally. The book had been out long enough for the stats to have stabilised by the time I'd reviewed it.

I think they're deleting a lot of 1-star reviews, maybe with the justification that many are irrelevant "book delivered next door by mitsake"-type garbage.

This, of course, allows them to manipulate stats.

 
 Posted:   Jan 3, 2021 - 6:24 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

There's so many ways to manipulate and/or distort ratings. Either intentionally or unintentionally.

 
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