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IMDB says the decision was based on traffic and data. They don't mention trolls.

• alecco 10y ago
  Right
• notatoad 10y ago
  "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.
  • mynameishere 10y ago
    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.
    • tatoalo 10y ago
      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.
• anigbrowl 10y ago
  Yeah but that's corporate bullshit to avoid litigation by admitting there's a problem. As a company IMDB is not especially interested in movies or in the quality of the service they provide to users, only in maximizing the revenue stream from them. They have a very aggressive approach to gathering data; if any of your personal information shows up in their database it's virtually impossible to get it removed, for instance.