Talk:Flixster

Nomination
Why has this page been nominated for deletion? I just discovered Flixster and would actually like to learn more about its history, etc. The page does not sound like an advertisement to me, as it does not make any positive or negative claims about Flixster.

Jlkwofie 18:13, 21 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I would say leave it up just for the info about security if anything else.

I just got spammed by Flixster. Reinstate the security warning, please.
Despite the sleazy self-serving hack job that the "Flixster team" just perpetrated, they are still sending spam that includes a questionable javascript link. I don't know any "Danielle Pitt" and I am extremely unlikely to be on any such person's Flixster mailing list (whatever that is).

When I clicked the link that said, "If you prefer not to receive emails like this, tell us here", their removal page said my e-mail address had been removed from the database. Note that this did not mean they would not add it back again.

Anyone who falls for these lousy, desperate "business" practices is to be pitied. The spammers need to be severely dealt with.

NPOV
Okay, anyone who has read this article certainly knows the mess it is. Looking at it its is usually leaning to the speculation that the site is not legit. Which in itself could be written better. It could be written like the Zango article but it comes of as a complaint document filled by a disgruntled user. I labeled it NPOV due to that. --Spikeleefan 06:45, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I have instead reverted it to its previous state.

Dodgy SPAMMER?
I'm here cause I got a dodgy email suposedly from Flixster and rather than clicking on the link I researched it first. If anyone knows more about the suspect advertising it should be here for all to see.

I also just got spammed by flixster
I received a spam email from flixster on my hotmail account. There should a security warning about flixster's spamming activities.

Also some parts of the article read like an advertisement.

66.30.10.102 01:43, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Me Too
I say kill the article until they clean up their act. Wikipedia could do without promoting spam. At the very least, the spamming activity should be more clearly mentioned in the article.--58.7.179.235 16:01, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Updating page with more citations
I'd like to update this article with some new citations. This company has had a lot of press lately, and I think the article would benefit. I propose to include the following information with appropriate examples and citations:


 * Provide details on the company's structure (how many employees, location, age)
 * Cite stats on the company and its business metrics
 * Size (user metrics, though most of that is there)
 * Funding and valuations (somewhat disputed between different sources, but good for knowledge)
 * Discuss company's current "distributed" strategy (e.g. the company already has or will have properties on all major English-speaking social network platforms).
 * This company is typically given as an exemplar of the social "platform" play, so it's important to explain, cite, and show example of this
 * Neutralize some of the tone (e.g. "Spamming: "It Requests for Passwords..."), and expand on the allegations of spamming relative to the social network industry
 * This entry could also use some general copy-editing.

Bnselby (talk) 01:01, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Updating page with more citations
I'd like to update this article with some new citations. This company has had a lot of press lately, and I think the article would benefit. I propose to include the following information with appropriate examples and citations:


 * Provide details on the company's structure (how many employees, location, age)
 * Cite stats on the company and its business metrics
 * Size (user metrics, though most of that is there)
 * Funding and valuations (somewhat disputed between different sources, but good for knowledge)
 * Discuss company's current "distributed" strategy (e.g. the company already has or will have properties on all major English-speaking social network platforms).
 * This company is typically given as an exemplar of the social "platform" play, so it's important to explain, cite, and show example of this
 * Neutralize some of the tone (e.g. "Spamming: "It Requests for Passwords..."), and expand on the allegations of spamming relative to the social network industry
 * This entry could also use some general copy-editing.

Bnselby (talk) 01:04, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Large chunk deleted
I was patrolling the recent changes, and stumbled upon this edit, which has removed lots of material from the site. I won't revert this on the spot, as I have not edited this article in the least before and am unfarmiliar with editors' opinions, but I believe this is a bit of a drastic measure. If you agree, I would suggest reverting the edit, and inviting the user who removed the material to discuss it on the talk page. Robert Skyhawk (Talk) 04:09, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Update May 2010 And here again -- I visited this article again after a few months to find that all information about privacy issues has been erased by IP address 71.139.182.83 in November 2009. That IP address is in the San Francisco Bay Area, home of Flixster Inc. I guess that doesn't say much by itself, but the justification in the history -- "all referenced articles are from the same unverified source" -- is obviously untrue if you compare revisions.

Would some more experienced wikipedians please help control this abuse? There are important and legitimate reasons to present the privacy issues. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.46.13.203 (talk) 05:10, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Flixster is using this article to perpetrate fraud
The fact that Flixster phishes for email passwords is not "point of view" - it is evidence of fraud. http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/is-flixster-a-big-fat-spammer-are-they-hacking-your-aol-or-hotmail-address-book/ When Bnselby edited the article, it apparently mentioned flixster's phishing activities: "Neutralize some of the tone (e.g. "Spamming: "It Requests for Passwords..."), and expand on the allegations of spamming relative to the social network industry".   But since then somebody (Bnselby? Or did Bnselby just fix the tone while keeping the facts, which were later deleted by somebody else?) has removed all reference to flixster's phishing for email passwords.  Whoever removed that material should be banned from further wikipedia editing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address_harvesting quote When persons fill out a form it is often sold to a spammer using a web service or http post to transfer the data. This is immediate and will drop the email in various spammer databases. The revenue made from the spammer is shared with the source. For instance if someone applies online for a mortgage, the owner of this site may have made a deal with a spammer to sell the address. These are considered the best emails by spammers, because they are fresh and the user has just signed up for a product or service that often is marketed by spam. .... In Australia, the creation or use of email-address harvesting programs (address harvesting software) is illegal according to the 2003 anti-spam legislation. end-quote

What Flixster does is worse than simple email harvesting, because they fraudulently (by intent, despite the concealed caveats)obtain passwords in order to steal data from address books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing quote In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. end-quote

Is Wikipedia letting Flixster get away with this because Flixster is big?

Ray Eston Smith Jr (talk) 19:35, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Hello.
Hello —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.108.245.98 (talk) 19:11, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Possible Flixster removal of criticism section
On November 30, 2009, the entire criticism section was removed by an anonymous IP. I suspect the anonymous IP was a Flixster employee. After getting spammed by Flixster today, I have added it back. Please watch for the removal of the criticism section, and if you notice it, please add it back immediately. To be on the safe side, please watch for any removal of content from this Talk page as well. --JHP (talk) 21:07, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

While the section is not without merit I think there is a concern it is presented as a hit-piece without an objective description of what the site does and its features and drawbacks are. Expanding the former may well protect the latter from being tampered with. 108.67.71.45 (talk) 00:39, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Outdated article
This article is outdated, as the Flixster brand has been re-used by Warner for a completely different service (Flixster Collections, a digital movie distribution system). The Flixster service as it's described in the article has been shut down months ago. I'm not in the know about when, how or why exactly this happened, but someone who knows more should update the article accordingly. 188.63.151.199 (talk) 20:48, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

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The site is still live
The website is still live but a lot of broken thing. It still run by Fandango. Matthew hk (talk) 08:30, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Flixster still appears to be a going operation run by Fandago so I fixed the lead/intro.
I checked the website for Flixster as well as the iPad app and both seem to be up and running providing current movie listings, local showtimes, Rotten tomatoes scores and audience scores, and movie trailers (among others features) thus I corrected the lead to indicate that Fandango hasn't shut the Flixster website or mobile app down as of April, 2022. I can't say if all the former features of the old Flixster still are active/available but as a going concern under Fandango's management it seems to still be operating in some form. Someone else can scan through the article's main body and fix any areas out of date that incorrectly suggest Flixster is no more. My current sense is that the Flixster name is just a brand used by Fandango, as the Fandango and Flixster websites seem to have much the same content, but sinse their is still a working website and mobile app for Flixster without evidence to the contrary I believe we have to treat it as going concern and if we can source evidence that the name Flixster is currently being used simply for Fandango.com content under a different name then we can clarify that in the lead and elsewhere. --Notcharliechaplin (talk) 04:44, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

App no longer in service
The Flixter app is no longer in service for Android devices. It merely links to flixter website, and there's no way to rate movies anymore. 2600:8807:C0C2:3900:C8F3:942D:BA97:4A8A (talk) 07:49, 10 February 2023 (UTC)