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| caption = Homepage as of March 2021
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| founder = [[Col Needham]]
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| owner = [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]]
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The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017.
As of 2019, IMDb was the 52nd most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexa Top 1000 Most Visited Websites |url=https://www.htmlstrip.com/alexa-top-1000-most-visited-websites
==Features==
The
On October 2, 2007,{{citation needed|date=October 2013}} character filmographies were added. Character entries are created from character listings in the main filmography database, and as such do not need any additional verification by IMDb staff. They have already been verified when they are added to the main filmography.
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====Rankings====
The IMDb Top 250 is a [[
<math display="block">W = \frac{\ R \cdot v + C \cdot m\ }{v + m} </math>
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* {{mvar|R}} is the mean rating for the movie, from 1 to 10;
* {{mvar|v}} is the number of votes for the movie;
* {{mvar|m}} is the minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (25,000 as of 2013)
* {{mvar|C}} is the mean vote across the whole report (7.0 as of 2013).
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Beginning in 2001, the Internet Movie Database also maintained message boards for every title (excepting, as of 2013, TV episodes, which used the same message board for the whole series) and name entry, along with over 140 main boards. To post on the message boards a user needed to "authenticate" their account via cell phone, credit card, or by having been a recent customer of the parent company [[Amazon.com]]. Message boards expanded in recent years. The Soapbox started in 1999 as a general message board meant for debates on any subjects. The Politics board started in 2007 was a message board to discuss politics, news events, and current affairs, as well as history and economics.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}
By February 20, 2017, all the message boards and their content were permanently removed. According to the website, the decision was made because the boards were "no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/3/14501390/imdb-closing-user-forums-comments|title=IMDb is closing its message boards|last=Liptak|first=Andrew|date=February 3, 2017|website=[[The Verge]]|access-date=February 15, 2022|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112041601/http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/3/14501390/imdb-closing-user-forums-comments|url-status=live}}</ref> Others have mentioned its susceptibility to [[Troll (slang)|trolling]] and disagreeable behavior.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/03/one-of-the-worst-comments-sections-on-the-internet-is-shutting-down/ |first1=Sarah |last1=Perez |website=TechCrunch |title=One of the worst comment sections on the Internet is shutting down|date=February 3, 2017|access-date=April 10, 2019|archive-date=October 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020044636/https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/03/one-of-the-worst-comments-sections-on-the-internet-is-shutting-down/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2017/03/09/internet-movie-database-robust-community-goes-boards/QI8mDhM15L2iQzTTf5K0JJ/story.html |url-access=subscription |date=March 9, 2017 |first1=Ty |last1=Burr |title=Should IMDB have preserved its comment boards – flame wars and all?|website=[[The Boston Globe]]|access-date=April 10, 2019|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112003811/https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2017/03/09/internet-movie-database-robust-community-goes-boards/QI8mDhM15L2iQzTTf5K0JJ/story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theringer.com/2017/2/21/16043918/imdb-message-board-shuts-down-80b632d6ab79 |first1= Claire |last1=McNear |website=The Ringer |title=Not Even IMDB Is Safe From Trolls|date=February 21, 2017|access-date=April 10, 2019|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112043304/https://www.theringer.com/2017/2/21/16043918/imdb-message-board-shuts-down-80b632d6ab79|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- archive version containing the actual announcement needed --> Needham also mentioned in a post some months earlier that the boards received less income from ads, and that their members only made up a very small part of the website's visitors. The boards were costly to run due to the system's age and dated design, which did not make business sense.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/can-someone-on-the-inside-explain-to-me|title=Can someone on the inside explain to me|website=IMDb
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