IMDb Help Board

Since IMDb began their authentication system to cut down on trolling (trolling has increased monumentally since the authentication was implemented...) and since IMDb altered their Report Abuse system to punish good users for daring to report bad users who were and are trashing boards and vandalizing data (even several Top Contributors had their accounts sanctioned for asking staff why staff were ignoring unprecedented sweeping abuses damaging several of IMDb's most popular boards and destroying data and vandalizing IMDb's Wiki sections) IMDb has devolved into a negative, hateful community dominated by trolls, and such behaviour infested the Help Board since about 2006.

"Respected and Regular" Help Board users themselves instigated troll wars on the Help Board.

"Respected and Regular" Help Board users themselves attacked and stalked other "respected and regular" users on the Help Board and all across IMDb.

One upon a time the Help Board threads spanned back a year and the board had 15-20+ pages of threads and most threads were threads asking genuine questions, but when the Help Board became the victim of troll wars, the rate of expiry was changed, slashing the board down to a handful of threads that "expired" within about 4 months.

The last couple of years the Help Board has been a joke, predominantly flooded with threads by profane abusive obscene trolls demanding to know "why were my messages/threads deleted", coupled with equally crude, arrogant, condescending comments posted in response by "respected and regular" users, resulting in yet more trolling and abusiveness and crudeness by all the people posting on the threads, all eventually deleted by staff. Help board regulars arguing with each other and trashing each other and arguing with blatant trolls and trashing blatant trolls, and help board regulars either responding with condescending retorts to the few people seeking genuine assistance or ignoring them all together.

IMDb made the right decision to terminate the Help Board from their site - it's a disgrace and reflects poorly upon IMDb. Since the IMDb staff lack the manpower to properly monitor the Help Board, their hands were tied. They could have terminated the board altogether, but instead they simply swept it off their site and onto another site.