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Re:“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards” by notatoad on Sunday February 05, 2017 @10:49AM (#13572853)
"we have concluded that IMDb's message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority..."

they don't explicitly say "we're shutting down because of trolls", but i think the message is pretty clear.

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Re:“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards” by mynameishere on Sunday February 05, 2017 @01:23PM (#13573655)
It's not clear at all. Probably what they mean is that out of every million unique hits, only a small fraction actually use the message boards. Meanwhile, the message boards, being dynamic, are expensive to host.
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Re:“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards” by tatoalo on Sunday February 05, 2017 @02:45PM (#13574146)
It's definitely expensive, but aren't they heavily AWS based? More importantly, aren't they an Amazon sub-company?? I understand that they could rearrange the resources elsewhere but I don't think, at least this time, it's a merely cash problem.
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