yahoo has closed its comment section

[corrector]

It looks like there is a cold civil war already in North America. I'm glad in one way that they closed down the comments because it has become nothing more than an echo-chamber, especially if the article is racially charged. However, it's not just those type of articles, ALL news articles it has shut down.

Gone are the days of the talk show programs I saw in the late 80s and 90s growing up. Sure, you had some fights on the stage and security had to step in to stop it from turning into a brawl, but I think it allowed some relative constructive vents to be on TV during that time without the audience itself fighting against each other.

Has youtube and the internet killed the lost art of the talk-show program? Were talk shows really that constructive to society in the past verses what we have now?

 

[HyenaPrince]

It looks like there is a cold civil war already in North America. I'm glad in one way that they closed down the comments because it has become nothing more than an echo-chamber, especially if the article is racially charged. However, it's not just those type of articles, ALL news articles it has shut down.

Gone are the days of the talk show programs I saw in the late 80s and 90s growing up. Sure, you had some fights on the stage and security had to step in to stop it from turning into a brawl, but I think it allowed some relative constructive vents to be on TV during that time without the audience itself fighting against each other.

Has youtube and the internet killed the lost art of the talk-show program? Were talk shows really that constructive to society in the past verses what we have now?

Talk shows have been replaced by podcasts. They're extremely authentic and invite honest discussions without having to mince your words. Nonetheless there are still good and popular talk shows like the Graham Norton Show. That one is still relevant for PR/marketing purposes.

 

[stovepipe]

Fuk Yahoo! Myself and many others were constantly exposing Yahoo with their blatant lies and fake news. After they disabled comments a month ago they had a survey asking how users felt about it.

It's obvious they are working with Satan/left posting lies. By removing the comments they stopped people like me from trying to wake people up from the deception they were being fed daily. We're living in a modern day digital book burning era.

 

[zekko]

I don't spend time on Yahoo anyway, but I don't like the sound of it. I've seen many public forums that I was fond of get closed over the years. Usually it's because the main business of the site is something else (like IMDB, for instance), and they didn't want to spend the energy moderating the forums. Some people would get offended or post something questionable, and they just didn't want to deal with it. Sounds like that's what's happened with Yahoo.

I don't like seeing public avenues of discourse closing down. It's unfortunate that people are so divided, but not talking isn't going to accomplish anything.

 

[user43770]

Horrible move. I would sometimes seek out the Yahoo version of a story specifically for the comments. You know, just to see how normal people felt about it.

Looks like I'm never going to that website again.
I bet there are a lot of people that feel the same way.

 

[zekko]

Looks like I'm never going to that website again.
I bet there are a lot of people that feel the same way.

I felt that way about IMDB when they closed the forums. I liked going there to see what people thought about movies.
I've tried to avoid the site ever since.

 

[Who Dares Win]

I recall I was used to check IMDB.com for comments about movies before getting one then "someone" got offended so the site shut down comments.

I recall a guy saying that no chance in hell a skinny girl in her early 20s would have being chosen as the army leader in a post apocalypse world and litteraly 10 women started insulting him and threath to sue the site if they werent gonna remove such posts.

It was "the 100" tv series board a tv show were basically anyone with a leadership position is a woman...cant get any more sci-fi than that.

 

[Lookatu]

Everything is controlled in the US by government and other "special" interest groups.

What there needs to be are websites that are hosted and not blocked on foreign soil with immunity from these censorships.

 

[corrector]

I recall I was used to check IMDB.com for comments about movies before getting one then "someone" got offended so the site shut down comments.

That is not true.

I recall a guy saying that no chance in hell a skinny girl in her early 20s would have being chosen as the army leader in a post apocalypse world and litteraly 10 women started insulting him and threath to sue the site if they werent gonna remove such posts.

It was "the 100" tv series board a tv show were basically anyone with a leadership position is a woman...cant get any more sci-fi than that.

There are many comments about "The 100" Tv series. This is the spiritual sequel to "The Hunger Games", 2012 (and sequels) in my mind, and anyone who has a problem with that TV show would also have the same issue with "The Hunger Games" 2012 as there was a female main lead character, and President Coin of District 13 (Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1) was also a female lead. But otherwise that's a poor comment, I'm on the season finale of season 4 and haven't opened the last episode yet and it's a great TV series. For someone to rate it one star and put such a comment would not be taken seriously as the overall IMDB rating of the series is 8.1, which isn't bad for something that has 7 seasons.

 

[Who Dares Win]

That is not true.



There are many comments about "The 100" Tv series. This is the spiritual sequel to "The Hunger Games", 2012 (and sequels) in my mind, and anyone who has a problem with that TV show would also have the same issue with "The Hunger Games" 2012 as there was a female main lead character, and President Coin of District 13 (Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1) was also a female lead. But otherwise that's a poor comment, I'm on the season finale of season 4 and haven't opened the last episode yet and it's a great TV series. For someone to rate it one star and put such a comment would not be taken seriously as the overall IMDB rating of the series is 8.1, which isn't bad for something that has 7 seasons.

IMDB.com had a comment section, its not a matter of what you believe or think, they had it untill generation special snowflakes got offended from other people opinion.

You know stuff like skinny women leading armies or ancient greeks looking like africans in modern movies still look ridicolous to most people and they kinda like to say it, myself included.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/3/14501390/imdb-closing-user-forums-comments

Given the current political climate, where offensive language and hate speech have been normalized thanks to President Trump’s rhetoric, it’s not surprising that IMDb would want to take itself even further out of the fray.

You got it why they closed it?...hate speech lol

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

IMDB.com had a comment section,

It wasn't just a comment section, it was a full blown forum like this.

For each movie or TV show.

Getting rid of that was tragic.

 

[corrector]

Oh, @Who Dares Win , I thought you meant the movie reviews itself. That was confused with the comment section.
Didn't notice it was gone.

Like I said, that doesn't stop someone from rating something a one and putting a nasty review. There are one stars and lash-outs and oftentimes I look at the 1-2 star reviews especially on a highly rated movie but didn't click with me. A bad comment is like that anyway and so long as that's not censored then it can't really be that bad.

 

[Who Dares Win]

Oh, @Who Dares Win , I thought you meant the movie reviews itself. That was confused with the comment section.
Didn't notice it was gone.

Like I said, that doesn't stop someone from rating something a one and putting a nasty review. There are one stars and lash-outs and oftentimes I look at the 1-2 star reviews especially on a highly rated movie but didn't click with me. A bad comment is like that anyway and so long as that's not censored then it can't really be that bad.

Yes but its not as good to decide if you wanna give that movies a shot or not.

If 6 comments say that robocop (1987) is a great movie while 23 say that its ugly it doesnt necessarily means it is.

If the 6 comments come from guys whos names are videogame characters and the 23 negatives come from various karens, I know that I will like the movie, also the comment express better opinions than just a simple mark.

There is people that gives a low score to a movie cause he/she didnt like the soundtrack while others give top score to crappy movies cause the main actor in his private life is politically alligned to them.

Anytime they prevents people to share their opinion on something you can be totally sure that its because the dumb minority of karens got offended.

 

[corrector]

Yes but its not as good to decide if you wanna give that movies a shot or not.

If 6 comments say that robocop (1987) is a great movie while 23 say that its ugly it doesnt necessarily means it is.

If the 6 comments come from guys whos names are videogame characters and the 23 negatives come from various karens, I know that I will like the movie, also the comment express better opinions than just a simple mark.

There is people that gives a low score to a movie cause he/she didnt like the soundtrack while others give top score to crappy movies cause the main actor in his private life is politically alligned to them.

Anytime they prevents people to share their opinion on something you can be totally sure that its because the dumb minority of karens got offended.

To each their own. However, normally I look at comments after I've seen the trailer and watched the first 20-45 minutes of a movie, or first 3 episodes of a TV show, so I already have formed some opinion of it before I decide whether to give it a shot (ie view the rest of the movie, or look at the season, etc...). There are also other weighted markers (ie nominations, wins, RT score, video-reviews, ET news, friends/family who have recommended itetc....) that would also be influencing whether something has merits of using my time and attention. With most content ending up in streaming, it's easy to just open something up and then look at reviews afterwards. Also, allot of times reviews help process something I've already watched because I can compare my experience of watching something to other people.

But if you found the comments helpful that's interesting. I know if a movie is controversial or politically divisive (i.e "The Hunt" 2020, or "Unplanned" 2019), and there is enough hype about these types of movies to know that most reviews may be biased because of the subject matter.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Mlb suspended their commentary section last year on articles. It tended to be the same people arguing over the same never ending political disputes.