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Although I was never much of a contributor to the IMDB message boards, I often found them incredibly helpful and insightful regarding various films and shows I'm passionate about. Getting rid of them was completely unnecessary and the site will see it's traffic greatly reduced as a result I would imagine.
Oddly enough and i speak from a little bit of experience here, to run a successful board- you have to really want to to do it. Not saying imdb didn't but their focus is the main pages & the forum was an after thought. so it becomes a matter of what's the primary focus of their business? What's their mission statement? for imdb it's the data base of movies & pro's. to be honest that's a lot of the reason i put the focc mission statement in place, so folks would know, that focc is about building a community
[member=1]alyssa[/member] - FoCC volunteers do a fantastic job of keeping this forum an open, warm, informative, exceedingly helpful and fun community...I appreciate your work even more now!
It's a great contrast of how NOT to run a message board (IMDB) and how TO run one (FoCC). I can't imagine their boards were particularly well moderated. Online harassment and trolling should be nipped in the bud on a forum. I know the mods on here and some other forums I'm on do an incredible job. It's not easy and it's often thankless. So thank you FoCC moderators for everything you do!