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I think IMDB is a good example of why registration is a good thing: discussions on there were of very high quality and I learned a lot about a given movie by co
by tomc1985 8y ago
I think IMDB is a good example of why registration is a good thing: discussions on there were of very high quality and I learned a lot about a given movie by combing through them. You would have to have a subreddit for every movie out in order to come close to replicating that experience on Reddit, and it seems registration kept a lot of the riff-raff out.
- Fnoord 8y agoI've been a member on IMDB since the end of '90s, and I've seen high quality discussions and low quality discussions on IMDB. I think it goes too far to say that either is dominant. I can say though that controversial / politics related subjects likely create low quality discussion whereas clever movie plots generate high quality discussions. At least, that's my perception/experience of it. We both got our data point of experience, and that's it. We need some kind of data / analysis to get to a more coherent, unbiased viewpoint.
- cowpig 8y agoThere's a difference between requiring an account to lurk and requiring one to post messages
- intended 8y agoI’ll bet that this is primarily not because of registration but primarily because of topic constraints- you can only discuss movies. And I’m guessing there was some problem, which is why they shut the forums down.