That’s not my experience with IMDB. The trollies were mostly involved with current popular media, and hardly ever bothered with classic, art, or non-English media - which comprises MOST OF the database, even if it isn’t as prominent in its profile.
Nearly all of my use of IMDB was for the forums, so I hardly use their site anymore.
Most people aren’t trollies, so it’s depressing to see people give up ground to them everywhere. Our response to them can nurture/kill discourse at least as much what the trollies do. Anger about this feels perilously close to victim-blaming, but what can one say when most of the reasonable people let barbarian hordes take over simply because “I shouldn’t have to deal with that sort of thing”? If people aren’t willing to participate and defend the s/n ratio of speech, there won’t be any. What matters and what we can control is what we do, not simply complaining and conceding to endless floods of bad actors.
