Hidden Figures : Gratz, trolls, you killed the message boards

I blame the rampant racism on message boards for movies like this one. IMDB managed to have largely cordial discussions for years. But the trolling of the past year or so has killed this forum.

Again, gratz.

The racists and Nazis were just too much for the website owners to handle. Thanks a lot you cads!

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

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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.

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peachy..so i just get back and all i have is two weeks.

so not fair

susan

*mommy's
*comma after "air"
*friggin' (with an apostrophe)
*No wonder
And the last sentence is missing the word "is".

It says a lot (none of it good) that you would think any word ending with "tard" is a good insult. Also telling is your use of "snowflake", a signature epithet of white nationalists. I find it ironic that racists think liberals are so delicate when it was white conservatives who came unhinged at the sight of a black person using the wrong fountain or kissing a white person.

I imagine you have great difficulty with the real world, in which whites are a minority.

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a signature epithet of white nationalists.

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Libtard translation: Any word that offends libtards makes the person who said it a nazi.

I don't really see you as snowflakes, which are unique. I see you as dust bunnies. Useless accumulations of detritus, that in abundance, can cause sickness, but can be cleaned up and then thrown out with the trash

I don't care what imdb says about the "customer experience", I'm more cynical about the reason the boards are going away. I think it's either financial or legal reasons. Either the boards are too expensive to maintain or they fear some legal backlash from things people say here.

Ultimately it is about money, IMO. The boards have been deemed not worth the cost of maintaining them.

Agreed! I actually avoided the message board for this thread because of all the hate that I anticipated would be here. Now that it's going away, I figured I'd stop by and take a swig of deep-seated racism for old times sake.

Hidden Figures was an excellent movie. And for the record, proved that it IS possible to make an impactful period piece about African Americans WITHOUT even a single mention of the N-word. Well done!

I so agree with you! I saw it tonight, and I'm still blown away by the whole thing. I don't really recall any swearing at all in the movie, and certainly no racial epithets. It was so refreshing that way! And so very touching. I'm still a little teary over it for some reason, perhaps because I was thinking I wish the so-called president could see it. Seems like he could learn something from it, like how government is supposed to work to do great things, not just tear everything up and hurt people.


"How was the war, sir?"
"As any wara waste of good men." (Poldark)

Because of what I experienced on this board, I am glad they are killing these message boards. The racism, bigotry, and white-supremacist views displayed on this message board alone to me, was enough to kill this message boards.

Every bigoted, racist, nazi white-supremacist circled this board like sharks. I am so glad the decision was made because these boards are visited by people all over the world and this is not the kind of discussion atmosphere anyone but the racists would want.

Adios and good riddance. Let the Nazi racist bigots find some other swamp to inhabit with their "alternative facts".

Agreed, the absolutely racist whites going to black movies message boards and destroying and flooding the board with racist threat titles was the beginning of the end. Guess they got what they wanted - good riddance.

I just fapped to this post to celebrate my success at having this liberal playground SHUT DOWN FOR GOOD!!!

Buh bye revisionists and libtards!

You may have a case for getting a complete refund from your college.

Nah, just kidding! I'm sure you never went to college.

UC BERKELEY BABY, graduated in 92.

Go eat a bag of dicks from your Upstairs Junior College of Hair Weaving & Cosmetology school!

For someone with a supposed college education, you sure don't show it.

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But the trolling of the past year or so has killed this forum.

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Trolling from all sides has long been a feature of the IMDB boards and the Internet in general.

Benoit killed 2x as many w/o a gun than Belcher did with one/S&W fighting climate change since 1852

I've been posting in IMDB for over a decade and until last year I had NEVER seen the constant vitriol that has been spewing out.

Agree, Nedhorn. Believe it or not, I said as much on another thread and was eaten alive by someone daring me to prove that it had not been going on for more than a few years. I mean.??????

Agreed. I guess maybe it existed and I just never happened to see it, but I never encountered vitriol on this scale until the Ghostbusters reboot, and now this.

Real shame, I enjoyed reading other people's thoughts on movies. It's also been a good place to get other people's opinions on interpretations of scenes, motives, clarifying plot points, etc.

I've been on IMDB for a long time now and it's always been a fascist forum without the need for trolls.
IMDB users are known for rejecting the opinion of others and name calling so they became an easy target for outsiders to trigger them.
I used to post on forums but I stopped realizing that it's mostly snob film school kids and anti-social introvert hipsters who hate people and they think their opinions are the only valid ones.

So in short, IMDB has always been the easily offended place on the internet. It's just now people are making fun of "you".

Note: Someone somewhere will shout "Go watch a Michael Bay movie" on the forum now.

Yeah it pisses me off that the boards are going away. I'm an actor just starting to get larger parts after toiling away for years, and I looked forward to seeing comments about my performances on my board, even if they were negative I wanted to see them. Now I won't get that chance. Thanks Trolls!!




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even if they were negative I wanted to see them.

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Clearly based on the idiocy on these boards over the last couple years, there's still lots and lots of people that would be more than willing to say those negative things about your roles whether they've seen them or not. Particularly, if you're black apparently.




No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.