• 28Oct 07

  Crazy guide of the week 3

  Friday Night with Jonathan Ross has received quite a bit of negative attention from users and staff in the last couple weeks. The guide is generally cared for, but a casual read through the episode summaries reveals mostly opinion with plenty of negative person attacks. According to the tv.com knowledgebase article on this topic: "Episode summaries and the recaps that follow them should not contain opinion and should be as neutral in tone as possible." Now I know that a lot of the knowledgebase articles are outdated, but I'm fairly certain this one doesn't go out of date. Another obvious aspect to these summaries is that many of them are simply made up. A few, like the December 17, 2004 and the June 3, 2005 episodes, even have a note at the end stating this fact.
  • Posted Oct 28, 2007 3:39 pm PT
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• 14Oct 07

  Crazy guide of the week

  I was under the impression that show guides were for, um... shows! But somehow the Court TV network managed to get its own "show" guide. Oddly enough, there was actually an editor who submitted random episodes from various Court TV shows like Texas S.W.A.T. and Forensic Files. Not only does this guide look awful, it doesn't even belong on this site. Which is why, about two months ago, I followed the proper procedure for deletion of this guide. Unfortunately, no one seems interested in removing it.
  • Posted Oct 14, 2007 3:39 pm PT
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• 12Oct 07

  How to 'game' at tv.com

  When submitting a new episode, you get 2 points for filling in all the episode information except the summary and recap (yes, summaries are no longer required with new episode submissions) If you include a summary you get 5 points! That's a lot more than 2. So if you want to quickly become the editor of a guide that doesn't already have one, you'll need to include summaries with your new episode submissions. However, writing a summary is really hard work, and it's incredibly taxing on the brain. I mean, you really have to think and stuff. If you just can't be bothered, but you really need those extra points, then go ahead and write something lame like "coming soon...", or "to be added later", or just "TBA" that way you still get the points and you get to be a total douchebag! Score! And then later, if by some bizarre set of circumstances you actually do add a summary, you get 4 more points! Score! Now look how much closer you are to getting that guide you can corrupt with your editorial powers!
  • Posted Oct 12, 2007 3:39 am PT
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