IMDB Forums = rude and obnoxious people

Jim Williams · 06-12-2004, 02:59 PM

Please forgive me if I put this in the wrong board. Has anyone here gone to the IMDB message boards? A lot of the people there are simply rude, intolerant, childish and obnoxious. I don't go there often, but when I do I usually leave with a sour stomach afterwards.

Thanks God nearly everyone on this board has a lot more respect and maturity when it comes to responding to other people's posts.

Sorry, I just had to rant about the IMDB boards and commend the people on this board.

Peter McM · 06-12-2004, 04:19 PM

IMDB is an example of an unmoderated forum, so it allows for anybody to post anything with no one to reprimand and stop them. It's also a place where nobody is listening--like the proverbial tree falling in a forest and no one's around to hear. Does it still make a sound? Who cares!

People like you and me, Jim, are plenty mature and intelligent enough to monitor ourselves--thank God for Ron, Parker and the rest of the administrators for taking care of those that aren't and thereby keeping HTF a place where the studios actually care what is said.

TheBat · 06-12-2004, 08:22 PM

I agree. I rather post here in this forum where there is respect for others then in the internet movie data base.. Its nasty there.

JACOB

Rob P S · 06-12-2004, 08:31 PM

I abandoned the other (RT) forum I used to post in because of the childishness and moronic threads. Makes me appreciate this place even more!

to Ron and Parker.

Josh Simpson · 06-12-2004, 08:36 PM

Yes, this forum is a dream and something I visit every day. Thank you. Enter imdb message boards at your own risk.

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Rob Speicher · 06-12-2004, 09:49 PM

No kidding - I have yet to find one meaningful post at IMDB. It's all garbage. You start reading, and if a thread has more than 5 posts, it's always a flamewar.

Check out this one: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0324216/board/nest/7705140

Jim Williams · 06-12-2004, 10:12 PM

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No kidding - I have yet to find one meaningful post at IMDB. It's all garbage. You start reading, and if a thread has more than 5 posts, it's always a flamewar.

You are right about that one Rob. It went downhill really fast. It seems like the majority of IMDB posts degrade into a childish, immature rant with no point. I use the IMDB often and I would have thought that it would be one place to have an intelligent discussion about movies and the industry. Obviously that is not the place. Too bad, IMDB has such great potential.

ZacharyTait · 06-12-2004, 10:50 PM

I have a roomate who frequents the IMDB message boards and he thinks it's a good place for info. Then again, he thinks Pearl Harbor is a great movie.

I don't read their message boards because just about everyone there is an idiot who can't spell worth shit and has to use acronyms for just about every word.

That kind of stuff makes me glad that the HTF is run by a couple of cool guys and moderated by a bunch of kick ass people. Thanks to Parker, Ron and all the mods for making this an oasis in the wasteland of the Internet!

Greg_S_H · 06-12-2004, 10:50 PM

It's basically the AICN talkback on a site that's more respectable overall. Most the time the participants admit they are pre-teens. I wish there was a way to keep it off the pages via a user setting. Maybe there is a way. I never checked into it. As it is, I just avoid.

MatthewLouwrens · 06-12-2004, 11:07 PM

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Check out this one: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0324216/board/nest/7705140

Mummy, I'm scared.