These last several posts from today, about bots doing the bumping, and the timing and sequencing of the bumps, and about posts of a fictitious BBQ that only trolls claim to have gone to - I had no idea.
Tell you what, this is my first thought when I hear this - it's to vacate the board completely in terms of the warm, cozy posts, and leave just a few posts each day that have real movie content, not even all that in-depth, just enough to show new people it's an active board (and at IMDb, 5 new posts a day is a lot for most forums), and respond to new people's posts. And then move the living and loving to here.
I also think this should be reported to the right journalists. It actually seems like an incredible story to me. Is it high-tech homophobia?