Warning -- *Long Rant*
I'm a movie buff, like many others here, so this really pisses me off. Let's do a bit of history first. IMDB dropped all public message boards, like, in the past year or two, I forgot exactly when, but it was very disliked by a big majority of movie fans, who used to hang out on the boards and talk about their favorite hobby - movies of course.
But IMDB decided that because of all the political heat that had started getting too hot for them - boo hoo (sarcasm) - so IMDB went all authoritarian, and decided to punish everyone for a few trolls and troublemakers on their message boards, and no further discussion of movies was allowed.
Before this lame move by IMDB, I enjoyed occasionally checking in to the message boards, and seeing what people were talking about, especially when a hot new movie, one that I may have been interested in, would be released. So this was the first sign that IMDB was going to shit, when it used to be easily the premier and best movie site on the internet.
So now, I was checking out IMDB today, as I just saw a good movie in the theaters and was browsing the reviews section for it. IMDB used to have an outstanding reviews section. Now, they have changed it, and just about every other review is hidden, with "spoilers" as a warning label attached.
Basically, before they were much more lax about what was considered a spoiler, and then even if there were spoilers, the review text would still appear, but with a spoiler warning in bold text.
So IMDB basically, for some reason, doesn't want reviews to be shown by the regular folks out there any longer, and you have to deal with the hassle of clicking every time (or a lot of the time) you want to read a damn review.
Next, they put in a new and hard to read font, instead of the great readable font they had used prior.
Finally, and worse of all, now reviews are locked in order by "helpfulness" WTF??
IMDB took all the options away from sorting through reviews. They used to have several sorting methods, for example - you could sort reviews chronologically (which was the standard default view, and happens to be my favorite)
Or, you could sort the reviews by "Loved it" or "Hated it" or by which reviews were best received by the community, basically highest rated reviews, and so on.
Now, IMDB in their authoritarian wisdom, has taken away all choices, and there are no longer any options but a forced one of sorted by "helpfulness" only. Again - WTF??
IMDB apparently hates the public and the normal folk out there in terms of receiving reviews and feedback, as well as open discussion. Why does IMDB all of a sudden consider the general public their enemy? Is it because Hollywood has suffered this year, with bad box office results, and the big movers and shakers in Hollywood have decided its because too many poor reviews are being made about a lot of these crap films they have been releasing lately??
That is my speculation, at this point.
*Rant Mode Off*
I'm a movie buff, like many others here, so this really pisses me off. Let's do a bit of history first. IMDB dropped all public message boards, like, in the past year or two, I forgot exactly when, but it was very disliked by a big majority of movie fans, who used to hang out on the boards and talk about their favorite hobby - movies of course.
But IMDB decided that because of all the political heat that had started getting too hot for them - boo hoo (sarcasm) - so IMDB went all authoritarian, and decided to punish everyone for a few trolls and troublemakers on their message boards, and no further discussion of movies was allowed.
Before this lame move by IMDB, I enjoyed occasionally checking in to the message boards, and seeing what people were talking about, especially when a hot new movie, one that I may have been interested in, would be released. So this was the first sign that IMDB was going to shit, when it used to be easily the premier and best movie site on the internet.
So now, I was checking out IMDB today, as I just saw a good movie in the theaters and was browsing the reviews section for it. IMDB used to have an outstanding reviews section. Now, they have changed it, and just about every other review is hidden, with "spoilers" as a warning label attached.
Basically, before they were much more lax about what was considered a spoiler, and then even if there were spoilers, the review text would still appear, but with a spoiler warning in bold text.
So IMDB basically, for some reason, doesn't want reviews to be shown by the regular folks out there any longer, and you have to deal with the hassle of clicking every time (or a lot of the time) you want to read a damn review.
Next, they put in a new and hard to read font, instead of the great readable font they had used prior.
Finally, and worse of all, now reviews are locked in order by "helpfulness" WTF??
IMDB took all the options away from sorting through reviews. They used to have several sorting methods, for example - you could sort reviews chronologically (which was the standard default view, and happens to be my favorite)
Or, you could sort the reviews by "Loved it" or "Hated it" or by which reviews were best received by the community, basically highest rated reviews, and so on.
Now, IMDB in their authoritarian wisdom, has taken away all choices, and there are no longer any options but a forced one of sorted by "helpfulness" only. Again - WTF??
IMDB apparently hates the public and the normal folk out there in terms of receiving reviews and feedback, as well as open discussion. Why does IMDB all of a sudden consider the general public their enemy? Is it because Hollywood has suffered this year, with bad box office results, and the big movers and shakers in Hollywood have decided its because too many poor reviews are being made about a lot of these crap films they have been releasing lately??
That is my speculation, at this point.
*Rant Mode Off*
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