Has anyone checked out the IMDB message boards lately? I probably need to use their "ignore user" button, but I was just amazed out how many dumb, obnoxious and/or racist comments there are. It's a pity that such an awesome site like IMDB has such a crap forum, partly due to a few persistent trolls and sloppy moderators, but also because it is incredibly slow and usually returns errors.

Here are some examples of the intelligent debates going down at IMDB recently:

"I have decided to model myself on Jason Statham from now on. "
"Movies dealing with the retarded should not be made "
"English actresses sure are ugly."
"Don't see why other countries need to hand out movie awards."

To be fair, most of these were probably posted by trolls.

IMDb must not have quality moderators like MC has. Mark f & company do a pretty solid job about eliminating that kind of nonsense, and this community as a whole does a VERY good job of sniffing out SPAM.

HOWEVER, IMDb is still the gold standard for movie sites, as everyone knows. The best argument settler out there.

Some people on the IMDB forums are nuts. Some guys even compared Disney's Aladdin with Hitler!!
They even said we should boycott Aladdin because it takes place in Iraq and stuff?
Can you believe that?

I can believe it, but what they're doing is just trying to stir up trouble and cause fights. There's always been people saying the most outrageous stuff just trying to push people's buttons. We have tried to get rid of that stuff here, at least if it's blatant, but it hasn't happened very often.

That's true. It's just really sad that people would stir up trouble for no particular reason. It's like those guys who go to a thread where there are only fans of an actor, for example, and starts saying that he sucks! Everyone just starts going nuts!

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Originally posted by Edward Nygma:
It's like those guys who go to a thread where there are only fans of an actor, for example, and starts saying that he sucks! Everyone just starts going nuts!

In this respect it is the members of the Metacritic Forums that deserve much of the credit for making this a more civil community. Trolls aside, not everybody is going to see eye to eye on every film, or CD, or book. The membership here does a good job of not letting differences of taste and opinion turn personal.

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Thats why I am using the IMDB just to search for info on movies rather than read reviews or pay attention to their ratings they have on each movie page. Basically, when I see a guy on their boards ranting about how much they hate a movie I just think that most of them are a bunch of jerks.

I tried to join in a discussion on the Casino Royale message boards describing saying why it isn't a good film.
I was promptly (within minutes) attacked by about 4 users notifying me that I wasn't intelligent enough to "get it."

A James Bond film...