@Harry Skywalker said:

@autoexec.batman said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

@M. LeMarchand said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

Everything costs money but even in independent and small forums around the world they can have moderation systems good enough yet Amazon can't? They were just lazy.

It's a lot easier to moderate a small forum than it is a large one. That said, AMZ could have done something with IMDb (and their own boards) - I guess they figured it wasn't worth the money.

Instead of trying to fix the forums they decided to just blow up everything.

It was just lazy, an insult and a total lack of respect to thousands and millions of IMDB users who always used the forums.

It's always easy to spend other people's money, isn't it?

What...? Nothing to do with anything.

Yes, it has everything to do with it. You are complaining that Amazon wasn't willing to spend the money necessary to bring the forums into line, as if they had some kind of moral obligation to provide you with a free message board, well, they have no such obligation.

In case you haven't noticed, IMDB is only the latest in a long line of big websites that are abolishing their comment sections, most of the big newspapers, magazines, and blogs have done so as well. The ones that haven't completely abolished their comment sections have severely restricted access in some way, by either requiring payment of a fee to use a forum, requiring users to use their real names with pictures of their real faces on their profiles, or a combination of the two.

Other than IMDB, the other big website which had a reputation for obnoxious comments was YouTube, and Google finally got YouTube under control and largely ended trolling on the site by requiring users to use their real names and login with their Google account.

The fact, which everyone has known for a really long time is that the Internet is an incredibly toxic place, it is a place where people feel empowered by their anonymity to behave like assholes. Whenever there is a place with no rules, it quickly becomes dominated by the worst aspects of humanity. Visiting most Internet websites used to be like walking into a shopping mall and seeing that everyone was using the floor as a toilet and that there were a large number of naked people having orgies all over the place, that shopping mall isn't going to stay that way for long, either someone is going to step in and put a stop to this by establishing order, or the mall is going to close.

As long as the Internet was a niche product used only by a small number of people, this wasn't a problem, because it was always possible for the Internet-savvy people to avoid the places where the big public orgies were taking place. But now that the Internet is mainstream, and big corporations now own most of the backend, this situation is not going to be tolerated anymore.

These corporations WILL bring the Internet into line, they will do either by abolishing comment sections or requiring payment of a fee to use a comment section or by abolishing anonymity and requiring everyone to use their real name when online.

This is ineviatable, you must choose your poison.

@autoexec.batman said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

@autoexec.batman said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

@M. LeMarchand said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

Everything costs money but even in independent and small forums around the world they can have moderation systems good enough yet Amazon can't? They were just lazy.

It's a lot easier to moderate a small forum than it is a large one. That said, AMZ could have done something with IMDb (and their own boards) - I guess they figured it wasn't worth the money.

Instead of trying to fix the forums they decided to just blow up everything.

It was just lazy, an insult and a total lack of respect to thousands and millions of IMDB users who always used the forums.

It's always easy to spend other people's money, isn't it?

What...? Nothing to do with anything.

Yes, it has everything to do with it. You are complaining that Amazon wasn't willing to spend the money necessary to bring the forums into line, as if they had some kind of moral obligation to provide you with a free message board, well, they have no such obligation.

In case you haven't noticed, IMDB is only the latest in a long line of big websites that are abolishing their comment sections, most of the big newspapers, magazines, and blogs have done so as well. The ones that haven't completely abolished their comment sections have severely restricted access in some way, by either requiring payment of a fee to use a forum, requiring users to use their real names with pictures of their real faces on their profiles, or a combination of the two.

Other than IMDB, the other big website which had a reputation for obnoxious comments was YouTube, and Google finally got YouTube under control and largely ended trolling on the site by requiring users to use their real names and login with their Google account.

The fact, which everyone has known for a really long time is that the Internet is an incredibly toxic place, it is a place where people feel empowered by their anonymity to behave like assholes. Whenever there is a place with no rules, it quickly becomes dominated by the worst aspects of humanity. Visiting most Internet websites used to be like walking into a shopping mall and seeing that everyone was using the floor as a toilet and that there were a large number of naked people having orgies all over the place, that shopping mall isn't going to stay that way for long, either someone is going to step in and put a stop to this by establishing order, or the mall is going to close.

As long as the Internet was a niche product used only by a small number of people, this wasn't a problem, because it was always possible for the Internet-savvy people to avoid the places where the big public orgies were taking place. But now that the Internet is mainstream, and big corporations now own most of the backend, this situation is not going to be tolerated anymore.

These corporations WILL bring the Internet into line, they will do either by abolishing comment sections or requiring payment of a fee to use a comment section or by abolishing anonymity and requiring everyone to use their real name when online.

This is ineviatable, you must choose your poison.

You are wrong.

Yes, they have obligation because I'm a costumer and I was an IMDB user. So I have every right to complain about their own stupid decisions.

What you are trying to do is using the corporate logic which is obviously a failed logic. In fact, by what you're saying it even sounds like if you were working for Amazon.

No, Amazon is a gigantic company, one of the biggest in the entire world and does have a place within the Top 10 in Forbes yet you keep talking like if they were short of money to spend in the message boards...

@Harry Skywalker said:

No, Amazon is a gigantiuc company, one of the biggest in the entire world and does have a place within the Top 10 in Forbes yet you keep talking like if they were short of money to spend in the message boards...

Do you know how Amazon got so big? By making decisions that were all about maximizing profit - like chopping the forums, not paying decent wages and not providing decent working conditions for staff.

Do you miss this ex IMDB user? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8kvg4ZfwCnSzC5zAO6w5qg

@M. LeMarchand said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

No, Amazon is a gigantiuc company, one of the biggest in the entire world and does have a place within the Top 10 in Forbes yet you keep talking like if they were short of money to spend in the message boards...

Do you know how Amazon got so big? By making decisions that were all about maximizing profit - like chopping the forums, not paying decent wages and not providing decent working conditions for staff.

And again you keep talking like if it was expensive at all to get a competent moderation system let alone being expensive to a company like Amazon.

You keep giving them excuses. I bet you are one of those who claim what a company says and does is always right.

@Harry Skywalker said:

@autoexec.batman said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

@autoexec.batman said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

@M. LeMarchand said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

Everything costs money but even in independent and small forums around the world they can have moderation systems good enough yet Amazon can't? They were just lazy.

It's a lot easier to moderate a small forum than it is a large one. That said, AMZ could have done something with IMDb (and their own boards) - I guess they figured it wasn't worth the money.

Instead of trying to fix the forums they decided to just blow up everything.

It was just lazy, an insult and a total lack of respect to thousands and millions of IMDB users who always used the forums.

It's always easy to spend other people's money, isn't it?

What...? Nothing to do with anything.

Yes, it has everything to do with it. You are complaining that Amazon wasn't willing to spend the money necessary to bring the forums into line, as if they had some kind of moral obligation to provide you with a free message board, well, they have no such obligation.

In case you haven't noticed, IMDB is only the latest in a long line of big websites that are abolishing their comment sections, most of the big newspapers, magazines, and blogs have done so as well. The ones that haven't completely abolished their comment sections have severely restricted access in some way, by either requiring payment of a fee to use a forum, requiring users to use their real names with pictures of their real faces on their profiles, or a combination of the two.

Other than IMDB, the other big website which had a reputation for obnoxious comments was YouTube, and Google finally got YouTube under control and largely ended trolling on the site by requiring users to use their real names and login with their Google account.

The fact, which everyone has known for a really long time is that the Internet is an incredibly toxic place, it is a place where people feel empowered by their anonymity to behave like assholes. Whenever there is a place with no rules, it quickly becomes dominated by the worst aspects of humanity. Visiting most Internet websites used to be like walking into a shopping mall and seeing that everyone was using the floor as a toilet and that there were a large number of naked people having orgies all over the place, that shopping mall isn't going to stay that way for long, either someone is going to step in and put a stop to this by establishing order, or the mall is going to close.

As long as the Internet was a niche product used only by a small number of people, this wasn't a problem, because it was always possible for the Internet-savvy people to avoid the places where the big public orgies were taking place. But now that the Internet is mainstream, and big corporations now own most of the backend, this situation is not going to be tolerated anymore.

These corporations WILL bring the Internet into line, they will do either by abolishing comment sections or requiring payment of a fee to use a comment section or by abolishing anonymity and requiring everyone to use their real name when online.

This is ineviatable, you must choose your poison.

You are wrong.

Yes, they have obligation because I'm a costumer and I was an IMDB user. So I have every right to complain about their own stupid decisions.

What you are trying to do is using the corporate logic which is obviously a failed logic. In fact, by what you're saying it even sounds like if you were working for Amazon.

No, Amazon is a gigantic company, one of the biggest in the entire world and does have a place within the Top 10 in Forbes yet you keep talking like if they were short of money to spend in the message boards...

You have a strong sense of entitlement. Well,get over it, you can scream "I'm entitled" at the top of your lungs as much as you like, but the world actually doesn't owe you a thing.

@Harry Skywalker said:

@M. LeMarchand said:

Do you know how Amazon got so big? By making decisions that were all about maximizing profit - like chopping the forums, not paying decent wages and not providing decent working conditions for staff.

And again you keep talking like if it was expensive at all to get a competent moderation system let alone being expensive to a company like Amazon.

You keep giving them excuses. I bet you are one of those who claim what a company says and does is always right.

Given the traffic on the site, it wouldn't have been cheap to get it properly moderated. It wouldn't suprise me if they had metrics showing that people went to the forums didn't click the ads and cookie trails that showed forum users weren't heavy users of Amazon, so why make an effort? Also, a "moderation" worker wouldn't fit in with AMZ's every-second-of-the-day-accounted-for ethos.

Not to mention the whingers who start complaining about "free speech" if they are moderated.

As for your second sentence, I've bolded part of my text for those with poor reading comprehension; it should make what I think of AMZ's business practices clear.

@autoexec.batman said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

@autoexec.batman said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

@autoexec.batman said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

@M. LeMarchand said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

Everything costs money but even in independent and small forums around the world they can have moderation systems good enough yet Amazon can't? They were just lazy.

It's a lot easier to moderate a small forum than it is a large one. That said, AMZ could have done something with IMDb (and their own boards) - I guess they figured it wasn't worth the money.

Instead of trying to fix the forums they decided to just blow up everything.

It was just lazy, an insult and a total lack of respect to thousands and millions of IMDB users who always used the forums.

It's always easy to spend other people's money, isn't it?

What...? Nothing to do with anything.

Yes, it has everything to do with it. You are complaining that Amazon wasn't willing to spend the money necessary to bring the forums into line, as if they had some kind of moral obligation to provide you with a free message board, well, they have no such obligation.

In case you haven't noticed, IMDB is only the latest in a long line of big websites that are abolishing their comment sections, most of the big newspapers, magazines, and blogs have done so as well. The ones that haven't completely abolished their comment sections have severely restricted access in some way, by either requiring payment of a fee to use a forum, requiring users to use their real names with pictures of their real faces on their profiles, or a combination of the two.

Other than IMDB, the other big website which had a reputation for obnoxious comments was YouTube, and Google finally got YouTube under control and largely ended trolling on the site by requiring users to use their real names and login with their Google account.

The fact, which everyone has known for a really long time is that the Internet is an incredibly toxic place, it is a place where people feel empowered by their anonymity to behave like assholes. Whenever there is a place with no rules, it quickly becomes dominated by the worst aspects of humanity. Visiting most Internet websites used to be like walking into a shopping mall and seeing that everyone was using the floor as a toilet and that there were a large number of naked people having orgies all over the place, that shopping mall isn't going to stay that way for long, either someone is going to step in and put a stop to this by establishing order, or the mall is going to close.

As long as the Internet was a niche product used only by a small number of people, this wasn't a problem, because it was always possible for the Internet-savvy people to avoid the places where the big public orgies were taking place. But now that the Internet is mainstream, and big corporations now own most of the backend, this situation is not going to be tolerated anymore.

These corporations WILL bring the Internet into line, they will do either by abolishing comment sections or requiring payment of a fee to use a comment section or by abolishing anonymity and requiring everyone to use their real name when online.

This is ineviatable, you must choose your poison.

You are wrong.

Yes, they have obligation because I'm a costumer and I was an IMDB user. So I have every right to complain about their own stupid decisions.

What you are trying to do is using the corporate logic which is obviously a failed logic. In fact, by what you're saying it even sounds like if you were working for Amazon.

No, Amazon is a gigantic company, one of the biggest in the entire world and does have a place within the Top 10 in Forbes yet you keep talking like if they were short of money to spend in the message boards...

You have a strong sense of entitlement. Well,get over it, you can scream "I'm entitled" at the top of your lungs as much as you like, but the world actually doesn't owe you a thing.

You have a strong sense of desperation.

No, YOU get over it.

The world OWES me a lot. The world OWES YOU NOTHING at all. That's the problem.

You can keep yelling about Amazon because nobody cares. Everyone made fun of Amazon except... maybe you and Amazon executives.

Cry more.

@M. LeMarchand said:

@Harry Skywalker said:

@M. LeMarchand said:

Do you know how Amazon got so big? By making decisions that were all about maximizing profit - like chopping the forums, not paying decent wages and not providing decent working conditions for staff.

And again you keep talking like if it was expensive at all to get a competent moderation system let alone being expensive to a company like Amazon.

You keep giving them excuses. I bet you are one of those who claim what a company says and does is always right.

Given the traffic on the site, it wouldn't have been cheap to get it properly moderated. It wouldn't suprise me if they had metrics showing that people went to the forums didn't click the ads and cookie trails that showed forum users weren't heavy users of Amazon, so why make an effort? Also, a "moderation" worker wouldn't fit in with AMZ's every-second-of-the-day-accounted-for ethos.

Not to mention the whingers who start complaining about "free speech" if they are moderated.

As for your second sentence, I've bolded part of my text for those with poor reading comprehension; it should make what I think of AMZ's business practices clear.

Maybe YOU are the one who has really big reading comprehension problems because I 100% understood what you said. It seems you are slow and you are the one who doesn't get it.

IMDB lost popularity and it's an user-based site where thousands of users use it to edit and to givr and improve information to IMDB. Without Message Boards why even bother? Those users just say "I don't give a crap anymore" and don't go to the site.

This works both ways.

@Harry Skywalker said: No, YOU get over it.

The world OWNS me a lot. The world OWNS YOU NOTHING at all. That's the problem.

HAHA..that's right Harry, the world does **OWN **you a lot. Including us on the boards constantly OWNING you..especially ME!

Learn English my friend! the word you seek is "OWE"! lol

@jorgito2001 said:

@Harry Skywalker said: No, YOU get over it.

The world OWNS me a lot. The world OWNS YOU NOTHING at all. That's the problem.

HAHA..that's right Harry, the world does **OWN **you a lot. Including us on the boards constantly OWNING you..especially ME!

Learn English my friend! the word you seek is "OWE"! lol

HAHA! That's right dumb Jorgito2001!

The world does OWN you a lot. Including us on the boards constanly OWNING and DESTROYING you, especially ME! :D

Learn English my little friend! The word you seek is OWE! LMAO!!!!

Copy/Pasting and changing a few words...the simplest and most obvious form of defeat!

The online equivalent of THIS SPONGEBOB MEME lol

watched avengers endgame steve with thor hammer rocks man

@jorgito2001 said:

Copy/Pasting and changing a few words...the simplest and most obvious form of defeat!

The online equivalent of THIS SPONGEBOB MEME lol

Yes Jorgito.

You are a legendary retard and you suffered a major public humiliation and defeat as usual.

Cry more..