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Post by 𝔅𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔞𝔫 𝔅𝔞𝔩𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔷𝔞𝔯 𝔅𝔲𝔵 on Dec 30, 2017 11:22:36 GMT
I never logged out.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 5, 2018 18:14:26 GMT
No, big companies can afford to take chances. They can afford it when some don't work out. Just got the end of year newsletter from IMDb: Sure seems like it's 'not working out'. |
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Post by slowcomingwarbird on Jan 5, 2018 18:35:41 GMT
I haven't logged in, but I go there. They removed the rated episodes from tv shows. You can't sort the reviews to see hated it / Liked it. It's all random now. That is because some studios would give fake trash reviews on their competitors movies so that they could get a better rating on something like it that they were about to release. Which did a lot of damage and caused many films to never even get seen. Then Russian trolls started getting in on the act, in order to cause financial ruin to entire film franchises like "Star Wars" or "Star Trek". That is why the ratings "like / dislike" system had to be taken down along with the boards because Russian trolls and competing studios were abusing the boards and ratings system. So why would I have any reason to look back at something like the IMDB that I have left behind? |
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Post by slowcomingwarbird on Jan 5, 2018 18:45:05 GMT
I think they bought it because the old owners didn't want it anymore. And the old owners wanted to cash out on all their hard work building it up. Last but not least, Amazon thought they could make money off it. Just because you are Amazon doesn't mean everything you touch turns to gold. That's not how large, competent businesses go about buying other businesses. They pore over the accounts, have an army of analysts to work out its market potential and therefore value, and have an army of execs to come up with a business plan. Only then will the Exec Board sign off the purchase. No way did Amazon go into that purchase with such a lack of responsibility to its shareholders and just say "well we think we can make money" and get a sign off and then a few months later say "looks like shit, let's throw it away" and get a sign off. No, if you already have insane amounts of money and you want to get rid of a high value target that really pisses you off. That is exactly how you go about eliminating it, by buying it up, claim that it isn't financially viable, then fire everyone axe the whole thing and let the tax payers swallow the debt. Those are games that rich people like to play in the United States. |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jan 5, 2018 19:07:52 GMT
No, if you already have insane amounts of money and you want to get rid of a high value target that really pisses you off. That is exactly how you go about eliminating it, by buying it up, claim that it isn't financially viable, then fire everyone axe the whole thing and let the tax payers swallow the debt. Those are games that rich people like to play in the United States. Read my post above. Clearly it doesn't piss them off - it supplies tons of content to the amazon website and generates huge advertising revenue. |
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Post by drtokyo on Jan 5, 2018 20:10:59 GMT
I did last night for the first time since they shut down the old message boards. I read a few reviews of Star Wars, then left. Ive visited IMDb maybe two or three times, but this was the first time I entered user name and password. I wonder how they've fared since last Feb? I never used that site for anything but the message boards, so no. I don't give a crap about movie and TV reviews. |
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Post by slowcomingwarbird on Jan 5, 2018 21:56:12 GMT
No, if you already have insane amounts of money and you want to get rid of a high value target that really pisses you off. That is exactly how you go about eliminating it, by buying it up, claim that it isn't financially viable, then fire everyone axe the whole thing and let the tax payers swallow the debt. Those are games that rich people like to play in the United States. Read my post above. Clearly it doesn't piss them off - it supplies tons of content to the amazon website and generates huge advertising revenue. That is not to say that that sort of thing doesn't go on as a strategy to eliminate competition, case in point, Microsoft. But no, it is not a "solid" business plan to gut such a web site and convert it into a competitor of Netflix. Streaming media of that sort only has appeal to generation "Y" and Millennials. And doing that to IMDB is like a giant middle finger to both generation "X" and Baby Boomers who have no interest in watching television or movies on streaming media which over all rates as a worse experience than watching movies on VHS tape or Betamax. Mostly the point of contention that the picture freezes or the sound drops out, or the sound and picture start to drift apart, or the internet connection drops out entirely. The picture quality of VHS tape was kind of bad, and sometimes there were "tracking" adjustment issues, but VHS never had the problems that streaming media does. |
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