FL!CKING IMDb SUCKS NOW!!!

Come on now. You really believe it's a big deal to have to read the rules before jumping in?  Seriously?  How's that working out for you? You ended up finding out the hard way that you wouldn't be interested...and you're blaming that on IMDb having printed out the explanation so you could inform yourself?. That's just ridiculous. I'd be with you if the explanation wasn't printed anywhere but now what you're saying is just insane.

re: "Why don't you two try to get new userIDs with new emails and see how cumbersome it is."

What makes you think I haven't?  I frequently test the way things work since I am frequently answering peoples' questions. 

re: "read the forums and you'll see I'd have backers"

Ok...so how many "backers?"  I'll give you two hundred (though it's probably more like a couple dozen, tops)...how does that compare when the site has 100 million visits per month from unique visitors?

I've never found the site "cumbersome," and frankly, if I disliked it as much as you do, I  wouldn't come to the site..and surely wouldn't spend time bitching and moaning about it. If it's truly such a pain in  your behind, why are you prolonging the pain by moaning about it?  You're certainly caused your cumbered yourself more here than you did by registering for a site you clearly don't  want to participate on knowing now what that requires.  Certainly reading the FAQ about it would have been, by far, the easiest route.

Seriously...this is beyond ridiculous...

Good luck, dude.  Hope life gets easier for you!

I never said the website is "cumbersome." I said registering is cumbersome. Seriously, what's with this solidarity when it comes to such a simple issue of wasting people's time? I should not have to read an FAQ to disenroll from a website. That was my argument, which you seem to interpret as my failure to properly register. Good on you for reading the FAQs; try reading the posts you reply to as your next hurdle. I'm used to fair business practices wherein sites have a link on the bottom of their emails which take one IMMEDIATELY to disenroll without having to hunt for a means to do so. You can mark me for vitriol all you want, bud, but this kind of thing is a standard among all reputable websites.

And by "backers," I mean the many people who had similar experiences with the ludicrous registration experience. Your whole "100 million visits" is a straw-man argument. I'm not talking about visitors to the website; I'm talking about people who try to register with the new format and encounter this kind of nonsense. Logic has abandoned you, or rather you abandoned logic on that one, guy. 

I really don't know how I could have made this clearer. Give full disclosure before you waste one's time as far as how much information we need to provide up front. One should not have to read the FAQs to do this. Your simple life might allow you the opportunity to do this, but I expect a degree of uniformity in websites. I'm not alone in that regard.

Seriously...this is beyond ridiculous...

Good luck, bruv.  I genuinely hope the simple things in life get clearer for you!

My issue with wanting direct contact is the need to complain about a user who has gone crazy. He is stalking other users replying to every single comment they ever wrote. He also wrote almost porn like stories about users. It's really nasty. He can get racist, make threats to coming to your house, make odd comments about your kids and more. Reporting doesn't help & ignoring makes it worse. I know 4 users now who were active on that board for 2mts up and delete their account due to him. I'm friends with them on Facebook and they could not take it. If I write a complaint or something against this crazy guy it gets deleted then he mocks it by claiming to work at IMDB. It makes no sense why IMDB won't allow emails or help tickets to discuss this. He claims to "own" 3 boards and IMDB I'd allowing it. Who wastes their their days trolling 3 tv shows and claiming the boards as your own? This nut even claims other trolls are his brothers. They are triplets. Trust me when I say he is weird and out of his mind. I may delete my account soon. I'm tired of him following me through my profile page. He is marked as ignore yet he can still comment and of course his "brothers" follow him,

Gee thanks IMDB for showing me that trolls can "own" boards.

Rose: I would recommend posting your issue in a separate thread. I suspect that the staff decided to ignore this particular thread due to its title. 

I have. I & it resulted in nothing but telling me to put them on ignore. I got no where. Other users have tried too. It's always the same thng. Report them once so the reports don't look like spam. Then add them to the ignore list. Doesn't work on this guy. Being ignored made things worse. One friend had him create up a whole creepy story of her showing up at his house. He made a big post about it for attention. It was deleted an hour or so later but my friend was horrified. She left after being an active user for about 3yrs. We are told this trolling. But it is getting worse. I can't believe IMDB has no way to request help.

I'm done. This is my sisters account. I'm afraid the troll would know it's me if I used my real one.

I'm deleting my account in the morning.

IMDB just doesn't care about it's users. As I said I'm not the only one who left because of this troll.