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065154d1 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c1ff5b2c then …. Why were they acquired?

Acqui-hire? To kill it? To scrape it? To save it?
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Pablonius Monk | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @13d743bf You're asking the right questions, for certain.

 I'll give the new owners a chance to not shoot themselves in the foot and mess up the good mojo that the site has built up quietly over the years.

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065154d1 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c1ff5b2c it would be a nice addition to an cleaner user based ecosystem like TMDB (the movie database) that doesn’t want the cruft and baggage and gaming of the system that have made IMDb and RottenTomatoes increasingly worthless to the end user.