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[Pow]

Missing the demise of the comments page from IMDB?

I know I am.

[bulldogtrekker]

Yes. I thought the big message board (I Need to Know, etc.) would be removed. I did not realize that the message boards for individual movies and actors would be removed also.

[Bud Brewster]

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I stopped posting on IMDB message boards back in 2007 when I created the first version of All Sci-Fi.

I just didn't like the way conversations simply faded away as new ones took their places. I wanted discussions to be permanent and easy to find.

So . . . I created this message board.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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[Pow]

And we all are grateful to for creating this terrific forum, Bud.

[Bud Brewster]

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______________Ah, garsh! Twarn't nuthin!


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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[Bud Brewster]

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Message boards have been declining for years, and I've had to work harder and harder to encourage our members to keep contributing to All Sci-Fi.

What I hope everyone will consider is the simple fact that even short replies demonstrate to the other members that their posts are being read and enjoyed.

One member who is especially good at this is orzel-w, who has the second highest post count on All Sci-Fi — 1,378!

And yet the vast majority of his posts are short comments that help keep the discussions going. I've always appreciated the way he does that.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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[Sens8]

The only IMDb board I ever used was the "Contributors' 'Help' Board" - back when I still contributed. But the 'Help' part of the title was just a Colinism; it was really the major - and only - means for contributors (volunteers all, and several with pre-computer databases of info on older films and, occasionally, even published articles and other works to back up their expertise) to talk with each other, about data questions but also about site issues related to the data. Help for the site, the managers, even for Col, if he could've accepted it; but not just help for the contributors.

The other boards - well, the per-title boards probably worked for the latest releases, but the older stuff was catch-as-catch-can finding a current discussion, and withall there were just so many damned individual boards to have to follow, you could spend an entire lifetime just boarding @ IMDb and never getting to all of them in time to be "au courant". They had a limited utility at best for me, and I suspect for many others. As for the rest of the boards, the mundane matters' boards, they really did become, rather quickly, troll magnets and crackpottery shops, at best having the feel of slightly high highschoolers' in protest mode, grouped up on opposite sides of a very close line, yelling at each other. The violence was often palpable.

So, no, I don't really miss them. Even the Contributors' Board had lost its meaning a good decade ago, with too many useful and even necessary suggestions having been pushed to the side and off the table, unkept promises to help the database part of the database grow in content and lock down on accuracy. Because of whim and ego among the "insiders", especially you-know-who. Toward the end, he'd even established a "code of conduct" for posting contributors which amounted to, essentially, never say anything that could be construed as critical of IMDb (where IMDb = CN, in his mind at least) on penalty of purge-atory. That I don't miss at all.