Bring back the message boards

IMDb will have to find a way to end the raging abuse of the boards before they consider bringing them back. There may be a couple of ways they can do this.(1) Minds.com is experimenting with a new reporting system. When the staff receives a report of abuse, they make the first decision on whether to act on it. A punished user can appeal the decision, which then goes to a group of randomly selected users.The randomness makes the decision likely to be fair. The staff can be biased. An elite group of users who get to make all judgments would be biased and subject to corruption. But a randomly selected group, different every time, would almost guarantee a fair judgment.(2) IMDb could charge for access to the message boards. Trolls and other abusers are less likely to pay than a user who wants to have civil and productive conversations. The few trolls who do pay for entry can be easily managed and removed.

? ? https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/imdb-message-boardsIMDb message boards Announcement Col Needham, Official Rep Posted 3 years ago ( Feb 3 2017 )395 Replies- - - https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/boards-closure-faq/G5HU888HZYE8LF79#Boards Closure FAQ IMDb.com's message board system closed on February 20th, 2017.The following answers address some of the most frequently asked questions about this transition. - - - Wayback Machinehttp://web.archive.org/web/20170101000000*/http://www.imdb.com/boards/ http://web.archive.org/web/20170220000011/http://www.imdb.com/boards/Message Boards : Feb 20 2017 http://web.archive.org/web/20170219202927/http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000001/thread/265872671Boards Closure FAQby Col Needham Wed Feb 8 2017 00:00:24.

I miss the message boards SO MUCH! As I recently noted, I had a close-knit group of 'friends' on a couple of boards, and it was devastating when IMDb announced they were shutting them down. Some of us exchanged e-mail addresses, Twitter handles, and so on, and some migrated to a couple of replacements, but it was never the same.

The cross-domain migration from GetSatisfaction to Sprinklr made me just slightly hopeful that someday there could be a migration back to IMDb·Com. However, there is still a lot of work to be done, if ever there was to be a distinct board to correspond to every IMDb title page. I get the feeling that absolutely under no circumstances would a board specifically designated for politics be brought back before a hundred years after any kind of site-native board would be introduced. Interestingly, a board devoted to such a topic probably only previously existed at all as a place to vent shenanigans that didn't belong elsewhere besides the soap box, the testing board.

Why is that that you ask users to try out the new designs, but never ask for feedback about this or make sure that people actually sees it and can vote, and then that you honor their wishes, should it be voted against. Personally I don't see why some pimpled web designer gets to decide what I like and not even have to option to use the old "theme" which wouldn't be that difficult seeing as how you use CSS and whatnot for other settings, so why not do this for the entire site??? I hate inefficient designs where you have to strain the eyes & brain to find something that's always been there just in sight, always in a specific spot/place and ready to be clicked on. Now these things are hidden away, menus that expands (Like list of movies, directed by etc) that gets reset whenever you back-step a page and you lose your navigation in the list. This forces you to open a new tab/window which should have been the default for such menus instead of using the same window/tab. Inefficient and stupid design! If the list is static you'll have no problems navigating to the next item in the list and it also loads the page faster if no Java scripts or other stuff to render these menus is used, which also means simpler design and less things that can go broken. I say, rid the beautiful site of this "modern" crap and reinstate the old design, and please bring back the forum, but implement CAPTCHA and possibly utilize AI to monitor posts that conflicts with community standards - Now would be the perfect time, and you can no longer say that it would be inefficient to monitor that. This should also be implemented for the reviews since many new movies have fake reviews. In both cases, I think a minimum of x posts should be approved and screened before allowing posting contents, and should any fail to post, manual approval would then be required. I say that if it's considered a good idea to implement A.I. into Swedish JAS 39 Gripen, our top-of-the-line jet fighter (this was on the news in June 2025!), it sure as heck should be good enough to have it run here to help fix the content, and the forum would probably be greater for it too. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation Link : https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/new-designsbring-back-the-forum/684c058b3a61c86440c6372c Title : New designs/bring back the forum

I realize that it's exteremly unlikely that IMDb will ever re-establish the message boards. But I would appreciate it if the staff would confirm that they are pressing Sprinklr to restore functionality to this community. With no active links, no ability to post images, and not even any bold or italic formatting, this board has become a lot less valuable over the last four months.