“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”

Re:“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards” by Arnt on Sunday February 05, 2017 @08:33AM (#13572340)

I've battled spam at another film site. If my experience is anything to go by, even mentioning the word "spam" is enough to make smoke come out of the operators' ears. They tried to delete the spam and abuse when it was posted, but some slipped through and leads to new support requests and new complaints even now.

Sorry if that sounded exasperated.

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Re:“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards” by sbarre on Sunday February 05, 2017 @09:20AM (#13572480)

Yeah but his point is it's one thing to disable new posts or comments, but just archive what's there instead of removing it.

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Re:“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards” by Arnt on Sunday February 05, 2017 @09:21AM (#13572488)

And my answer is that there's a stream of new complaints even about what's there.

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Re:“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards” by sbarre on Friday February 10, 2017 @04:51PM (#13619219)

You can say that about large parts of the Internet, so it's kind of moot, and not unlike throwing out the baby with the bathwater etc.

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