I'm surprised that there isn't a bigger who-ha (my grandma used to use that word all the time) about the Internet Movie DataBase closing their message boards.
I used to use the message boards to ask questions or just to chat about shows and people that I liked. I used to watch this show where 2 teams of people used to try to solve real life crimes. There was this one episode where the murder and suspect made no sense, and when I went onto the IMDB message board to ask questions, one of the girls who appeared on the show in the team who solved the case, she answered my questions and went on to explain the case further (she put it down to bad editing) and it made more sense.
People say that users are getting trolled. Well, any site that allows users to engage with other users are at risk of that. The thing with the IMDB is that a lot of users used the site for the very reason that they could chat to other users.
Without the message boards, IMDB just seems like a useless, soulless site.
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