The Religion, Faith, and Spirituality board is a complete flaming troll-pit disaster right now.

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And has been for over 2 months, since the beginning of May 2013 or so:

http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000108/t...

Over 70 long-time RFS board users have left the site for a private message board, because we were being trolled and reported ad nauseum on IMDb. Our threads and posts were being deleted indiscriminately, regardless of topic or content. Most of us have been using that board to discuss religious matters for years, and now we can't use the board at all.

At the moment, the board has been overrun by a determined troll group working together in concert to report and ban other users, again regardless of topic or content. Said troll group includes the following accounts:

http://www.imdb.com/user/ur26842622/
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur33414244/
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur44047795/
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur22073319/
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur21850521/
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur32163078/
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur2993853/
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur36744647/
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur29620108/

This troll group communicates both via private message and openly on the board, publicly discussing punitive measures they plan to take against other users via mass reporting. The following two accounts post endless hate-speech against non-Christians, the LGBT community, and anyone who disagrees with them verbally:

http://www.imdb.com/user/ur21850521/
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur2993853/

One of our group has communicated with an IMDb "champ," who basically stated that the administrators are aware of the situation on the RFS board, and have decided to allow it. Why is this the case?

Those 70+ of us who have left the RFS board are good Amazon customers who have purchased a great deal from Amazon over the years. Among other things, we discuss movies amongst ourselves on the RFS board (religious and other), and then purchase those movies from Amazon.

Why have the administrators of the RFS board made the questionable decision to allow a small group of extremely offensive users to overrun the board and chase away good customers? Do you not realize that this troll group is negatively impacting Amazon's commerce? It is in IMDb's best interests to do something about this situation if for no other reason than this troll group is negatively impacting Amazon sales among a devoted demographic of repeat customers.
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I agree that it makes sense to link to the other topic from here, excuse they are related. But certainly no solution has been offered in the other thread. A solution would be IMDB staff responding and letting us know what plans to be done to resolve the problem. I know that you are just trying to be helpful, but ultimately your answer has just boiled down to "so you have a problem? Sucks to be you, deal with it." That's hardly a solution at all.
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^^this.
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IMDB admins have labelled this thread 'Not a Problem', so I guess there wasn't one after all. Your lies have been exposed, along with your IP addresses.
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Right, you really haven't addressed the problem in that thread either. You're giving us the runaround.
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Keeping all posts on the same topic in the same thread is not a "runaround." It's quite the opposite. I posted that so people don't waste time replying where it's probably already been addressed sufficiently in another thread. Spreading it around is wasteful an not too productive. I also posted that so if a staff member sees this thread first, he/she can now see that it needs to be cleaned up and merged with the other thread.

I am under no obligation to address anything. Further, I don't think you're completely understanding the word "addressed" because I have, in fact done so, anyway.

No offense, but I can see why you have trouble getting along with others on a message board.
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Considering that I'm one of 70 people who left IMDb for a private message board, none of whom I have any trouble "getting along with," your accusation is unfounded. I'm pointing out that there is a serious problem on the RFS board, and you're telling me why it isn't going to be addressed. I hardly call that a satisfactory resolution to the issue. In fact, I'd call it a complete wash, at best.
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Sure, that's exactly what happened........

70+ users chased away by less than 10? As I remember you dudes were the ones deciding which topics could be discussed on that board and which couldn't.

http://i41.tinypic.com/2w1rxpw.jpg



As everyone can see in that picture, some of the users you've listed in this thread are the victims of multiple account mass reporting.

Stop being a little child because you aren't getting your own way anymore.

The Religion and Spirituality board is now enjoying a period of harmony, free from the arrogant and self-important users that you claim have 'fled'.
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That's cute.

You know, my driver's license doesn't say He_Cant_Use_Ipad, believe it or not.....
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does it say He Cant Get Satisfaction? :-)
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It says He_Cant_Drive_Well
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He Cant Drive Well ha ha. that is a good one :-)
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All it would take is for IMDb to compare the IP adress of waylonguitar http://www.imdb.com/user/ur38706976/b... and his alt account Chucklez_Otoole http://www.imdb.com/user/ur18266437/b..., and his OTHER alt account Chucklez_Otoole http://www.imdb.com/user/ur7187990/bo... , with Stan Snell and I am very sure they would discover the true culprit in this situation.

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