Newsgroup: it.fan.tv.friends
Titolo: [ot] Addio TV Tome?

L'utilissimo (almeno per il sottoscritto) website sembra stia per subire un 
makeover totalmente sgradito ai vari editor e decisamente inappropriato.
Leggetevi questo redazionale sfogo dell(degli)' editor, si trova appena 
sotto le info sullo show al link 
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-25043/
Io lo uso quasi quotidianamente, e sono assolutamente d'accordo con la 
bottom line dell'articolo ("it's not broken, it just needs tweaking")... che 
dire, speriamo bene e incrociamo le dita.
Per chi invece legge il ng offline, ecco il copy/paste:
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- April 24, 2005
*TvTome Development
As many of you may or may not know, TvTome was sold off this week to CNet. 
Sometime this summer, TvTome will be transforming it's look and overall 
submission techniques into a new site called "TV.com."
Now that that's out of the way, here's the nitty gritty as to how the new 
site will work. It has come to our attention that concept of "Editor" will 
no longer be what it was, and that the guide itself will take on a new 
submission style. In other words, the system of having specific people in 
charge of separate shows will vanish, and all submissions will be based 
completely off quantity. For instance, if a user comes by a guide and 
submits 20 piece of material in a week, while the current editor only puts 
in 5, the editor will be removed and the person contributing more will take 
his place as editor. We have tried several times to talk to the new 
management to point out the system is flawed. Anyone could submit the same 
material over and over again, submit useless stuff that has no bearing on 
the show it goes to, put in useless information during a show's downtime, 
and other spam-like problems that could remove hard working people and 
replace them with idiots who figured out how to trick the syetem.
In our attempts over the past week to make some kind of agreement or headway 
with the new management, we haven been ignored, shunned, have had our 
questions dodged, and overall been told in not so many words that our 
opinion doesn't matter. What's more, they've refused all attempts to tell 
any of us what the new plans are for the overall site, or whether or not any 
current editors will still be around managing our guides after the 
changeover.
Based off the attitude of new management, and their constant refusal to hear 
us out, I have made a final decision. The day that I am removed as an editor 
from any guide on TvTome.com (and the entity it will turn into, TV.com) I 
will no longer take part in the the development and updating of these pages 
for good. I rarely bring it up, but as some of you are aware, I work 
directly in television, and have made friends with many different 
franchises, studios, talent agencies, and even major television websites 
over the past couple of years. So the day I go, so will all of the 
information and updates I have been able to bring you in my time here will 
go with me.
To all of you who rely on me and this site for information and updates, I'm 
am so sorry. But there is no way in Hell I am just going to sit around and 
wait for some 12 year old kid who wasn't even born when most of these shows 
started, to spam up the submissions page and turn all my hard work into 
nothing! I wasted a lot of free hours here with no pay, no major credit, not 
even a way to stick this on a resume... all to be told that if I can't come 
up with enough info every week (even on complete shows), I'm useless.
All I can say is... it's been fun, or at least it was fun. I'll continue to 
do what I do best, and of course do it better than most. And hopefully 
between now and when this site changes hands, the people in charge will 
change their way of thinking and listen to us. And if any of them are 
reading this... it's not broken... it just needs tweaking.
-- John Q. Public 

 sotto le info sullo show al link
Ho letto. :(
Utilissimo anche per il sottoscritto. Proverò a salvare almeno le info
degli show che seguo.
Sebastiano