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January 15, 2003

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and we'd recommend it for any site with less than 13 million users per month.
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Trivia! Trivia!
I Need To Know

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4,285

3,188

1,870

755

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Tue Aug 6 02:20:49 2002

Best and Worst

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5,140

3,841

2,368

1,174

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Tue Aug 6 01:46:36 2002

Games

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3,505

3,231

2,988

2,456

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Tue Aug 6 02:07:40 2002

Goofs

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241

189

175

158

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Mon Aug 5 23:32:16 2002

Awards Season
Oscar Buzz

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Mon Aug 5 11:35:13 2002

Golden Globe Chat

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18

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3

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Wed Jul 31 15:53:03 2002

Best of 2001

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959

711

320

115

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Mon Aug 5 23:46:51 2002

Critics Choices

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56

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Mon Aug 5 10:50:38 2002

Worst of 2001

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213

120

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92

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Mon Aug 5 10:57:31 2002

Film Talk
Film General

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6,021

3,313

1,475

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Tue Aug 6 02:11:41 2002

Previews and Reviews

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357

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Tue Aug 6 01:04:31 2002

Video

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Mon Aug 5 23:35:24 2002

Classic Film

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Tue Aug 6 01:17:17 2002

Cult Films

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TV Talk
TV General

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Classic TV

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Tue Aug 6 00:11:34 2002

Current Shows

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Tue Aug 6 00:11:16 2002

Cult TV

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Trekkers Only!

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Shop Talk
Shop Talk Directors

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Shop Talk Actors

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Shop Talk Writers

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Shop Talk Crew

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Genre Zone
Action and Adventure

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Tue Aug 6 02:15:51 2002

Comedy

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Drama

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Horror

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3,252

2,445

1,556

591

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Tue Aug 6 01:26:15 2002

Independent Films

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Mon Aug 5 21:56:09 2002

International Films

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414

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Mon Aug 5 15:29:22 2002

Kids and Family

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Sun Aug 4 01:53:28 2002

Musicals

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Mon Aug 5 21:46:09 2002

Romance

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Sun Aug 4 17:51:46 2002

Science Fiction

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Western

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Tue Aug 6 02:11:06 2002

Star Talk
Actors and Actresses

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Directors

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Tue Aug 6 00:57:17 2002

Screenwriters

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Composers

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Other Moviemakers

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Hopefuls

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Tue Mar 21 23:55:31 2000

General Boards
IMDb Information

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Tue Jul 30 06:06:44 2002

Help Me!

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Mon Aug 5 21:03:41 2002

The Sandbox

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9,390

6,294

3,085

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Tue Aug 6 02:19:45 2002

The Soapbox

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8,318

6,778

4,520

2,494

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Tue Aug 6 02:22:37 2002

 
oro-2  Mon Oct 21, 2002
This weekend all threads on the old main boards prior to the 12th of July were deleted
oro-2  Mon Nov 11, 2002
I just want to add that these figures are very far from being correct
(many of the boards figures with a zero for the number of posts,
but when you look at these boards most of them have still 'plenty' of posts/threads left).
I don't know why IMDb's figures are so inaccurate on this point.
oro-2  Thu Dec 12, 2002
Today they deleted all the individual film boards,
so now there are only the oldboards-user-profiles and the Phantom Zone left.

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