What if THIS board remained the permanent home?

I kind of agree. This board has some great features updated from what BOM had, but it does still seem a little old. And I can't get used to the layout/color scheme, seems amateurish.

WOKJ and Filmgasm type forum is the best option, very easy on the eyes and to use. Those are pretty ugly.

Keep in mind Invision is about as customizable as it gets. I'm told, if wanted, it could be made to look exactly like the old Mojo (hypothetically).

Those forums, for some reason, are taking a long time to open on my system.

I say Shawn, start a forum with paid hosting (unless the cost is too high). A lot of us guys would like to contribute.

Lets stay here ShawnMR. After BOM crashed we lost a ton of threads that will never get back and now we are trying to rebuild from scratch (minus those early threads). If we move again will have to create another 30+ threads to keep up. This is great we can embed images and videos and is easier to use IMO.

I wouldn't mind moving sites like you mentioned only if we could transfer this board completely.

Hi Shawn,
I think its impossible for any forum to duplicate mojo forums. BOM is THE most popular BO site in the world. I was looking up at alexa.com to get some stats and numbers are something like below. What made BOM so active was the site is/was so popular that it constantly pulled in new users some of whom joined the forums. I dont think its possible for any blog/forum to come even 1/1000 of that.

I think if you just want a forum to interact with the circle who were already very close at BOM, I would recommend just keeping this forum or may be look at Facebook/Google+ circle etc. Other crazy option is to ask Nikki to open a forum at deadline :-). That should pull in new users as that site looks to be very popular in US at least.
SITE GLOBAL RANK US RANK
1) hollywoodreporter.com 1903 507
2) deadline.com 4211 1045
3) BOM 2781 1384
4) variety.com 9159 3021
5) the-numbers 31382 10826
6) hsx.com 38520 12591
7)boxoffice.com 75628 37130
8)boxofficeguru 145253 51662
9)ercboxoffice 1071272 345484
10)worldofKJ 557529 N/A
11) filmgasm 2688133 N/A
12) boxofficetheory 5803423 N/A

Yes it is the most popular box office site and it is still going to be great. IMDB is still the biggest movie site as well.

I hope a decision is made and finalized before BD1 OW.

Take us to the next level.

I believe this could be related to the confusing nature of the questions (and potential answers) in the poll: "If its not on BOT, I'll still post here." (?)

I end up reading the question & the options multiple times to understand.... (do you want the poll to mostly be about having a forum hosted here on proboards VS one hosted directly on BoxOfficeTheory (which is what the answers seem to be about).... or do you want to know how we feel about you hosting a permanent alternative board to the one that was at BoxOfficeMojo (which is what the poll question seems to be about)?

Why not just have the poll state directly:

1. "I would prefer to have a forum directly on the BOT site"

2. "Please Keep The Forum Here"

3. "It does not matter where the forum is located"

(By the way, you should realize that many of us are coming to this site for the very first time and even the BOT letters are unfamiliar. Took me awhile to figure out what the heck that was. It refers to "Box Office Theory" for others who don't know that).

I am guessing that perhaps you should be asking whether folks would post on a board hosted by you regardless of whether *Box Office Mojo* returns in some form since you reference Box Office Mojo in the poll question (isn't that the most important thing to consider here?)

ShawnMR, I am a long time / old time member of the boxofficemojo site (since 2002 I believe). Can I ask you if the moderators over at BOMojo were ever given an indication that the forums were being pulled or did everyone just arrive one day and it was all gone?

Please consider creating a home landing page here for the google search bots that references "BoxOfficeMojo" so that when people search google for BOM they will see links to your new landing page. Since you have complete control over BoxOfficeTheory, the landing page should be based at your BOT site and it should have a link directing folks to this forum (if this is the location that you ultimately choose to use as your forum site). I only found this site from a posting over on IMDB mentioning it (and it is probable that IMDB will delete that post at some point).


One other thing Shawn, I have a number of boards on php (free board software) and you should seriously consider using that software as you would own the contents. Continuing on a board like this where you do not own the content means that if at some point in the future you choose to expand or sell your site, all of the history and posts generated here would be lost (similar to what has apparently happened at Box Office Mojo.) I have seen many boards based on proboards software shut down or limited based on web traffic (the owners of this software are VERY open to listening to larger corporations who contact them stating that whatever may be going on here is in conflict with their official corporate sites). The owners of proboards rather than spend any money contesting such claims will simply shut down your board (without warning --- sound familiar?) I have seen this happen many times with proboards.

Didn't Brandon Gray sell his site to iMDB at some point for a profit? You should preserve that option for yourself using php with a Box Office Theory forum (great name for a site by the way).

Good luck.