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TV.com Guidelines Center

Editor Submission Guidelines
Episode Submission Criteria
Person Guide Submissions
Review Guidelines
Reporting MIA/Problem Editors

TV.com Editor Guidelines

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Welcome to the best place to start looking for answers to the basic TV.com guidelines for editors and show/person pages. All rules stated below apply to show and person pages, as applicable. These are not optional guidelines - for the sake of assuring site consistency editors do not have discretion on these minimum guidelines. If an editor is unaware of these guidelines or refuses to accept a submission matching these standards, please direct them to this thread, if that is unsuccessful, please notify Jaxiecracks or Danmod. We will update these guidelines as things change on the site, so consider this your most valuable resource for general information about TV.com editor guidelines!

TV.com Editor Guidelines

Links
Copy / Paste Material
Editor Queue
Editor Special Circumstances
Show Quotes
Rejected Submissions
Mass Submissions
Trivia & Notes Debates
Trivia
Notes
Allusions
Nielsen Ratings
Guest Stars

Additional Information

Editor Blog Guidelines
How to Moderate Show Forums

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Links

Do not accept or post links to non-TV.com webpages. (Back)

Copy / Paste Material

Do not accept or post material from other sites. If any sentence of any submission can be found at another site when using a search engine, it should not be accepted or posted. (Back)

Editor Queue

Editors must process their queue(s) in a prompt manner for the benefit of all contributors. For popular shows the editor should check their queue at least every 3 days. Otherwise they should check their queue at least every 7 days. These are general guidelines--in general no show-queue should have 50+ submissions in it for more than a day. Not following the above guidelines may give staff reason to believe an editor is MIA. (Back)

Editor Special Circumstances

Editors may notify staff in the Editor Special Circumstances thread if they will be absent for an extended period, as an exception to #3 above. An editor who cannot keep up with his duties and makes repeated "time-off" requests only to acquire extra time may be force-retired at tv.com staff's discretion. (Back)

Show Quotes

All show quotes (and quotes leading off an Allusion, see #10 below) must have the name of the speaker(s) bolded using HTML start and end tags. The name is then followed by a colon, which is not bolded. The dialogue itself should not have quotation marks around it. There should be no spacing between different speakers' lines in the same quotation, or extra spacing after the last line of a quotation. Action/context/background description should be in parentheses (or brackets) and italics.

How to Submit Proper Quotes

Brooke: So that's the boy that beat Nathan?
(Peyton nods)
Brooke: Well, he's good from behind.

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<strong>Character</strong>: Character Quote.

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<em>(Character Action)</em>

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<strong>Character</strong>: Character Quote.

Please do NOT use any quotation marks.
Please do not use paragraph or break tags.

Code:

<p> or <br>

Please put html tags for italics around any "action" and outside the parentheses (as shown above) using emphasis tags.

Code:

<em> and </em>

Please put the colon AFTER of the closing strong tag.

Code:

<strong> </strong>:

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Rejected Submissions

When an editor rejects a submission, they must provide a clear explanation for the rejection.

COPY/PASTE Submission

This submission has appeared on a different website. Tv.com does not approve of copying such information except for facts such as quotes, cast listings, and episode titles/airdates. Please summarize the information in your own words and resubmit.

Current Submission:

(User's contribution would be placed in this area)

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Mass Submissions

As a best practice when submitting, please remember that:

1. While you put a lot of work into researching and compiling your submissions, an editor or staff member is potentially processing submissions from several other users as well. Please use common sense and reasonable judgment when considering how many submissions to make to a single guide in one sitting. Especially given the attempt to process submissions within the 7 day (regular shows)/3 day (popular shows)/24 hours (editorless submissions) timeframe, it's more reasonable to pace out submissions so that an editor has a manageable amount due one day, a manageable amount due the next, etc., instead of a huge amount due all at once. Parsing out your submissions also ensures that you can get feedback from the editor instead of having a potentially large batch of submissions rejected for the same reason. It is within the discretion of editors and staff to reject mass submissions that inordinately strain moderation resources.

2. While TV.com thrives on passionate, knowledgeable users, at a certain point the guides become cluttered, clunky, and hard to navigate. Remember, that while you might find every achievement, every appearance, every quote significant, their significance is relative to the amount of information otherwise available about a person or show.

We would love to be able to process any and all submissions that come our way, but unfortunately, we don't always have the resources to keep up with your enthusiasm. We hope you understand that rejections of bulk submissions are not intended to discourage contributions, but rather an effort to maintain rapid turnaround times for everyone. (Back)

Trivia & Notes Debates

Trivia and Notes are not the place for debates, i.e., one entry or separate entries discussing an issue back and forth. If an entry is in error, it should be deleted, along with any additional entries saying why it is wrong. Editors may at their option include "common misconceptions as Trivia, as they are small details that viewers may not know (see #9 below). Debates should go to the show forum. (Back)

Notes

Notes are off-camera tidbits about an episode. They should contain off-camera events that deal with a show's production. They should not deal with on-camera events or trivia. (Back)

Trivia

Trivia is any small detail or goof that might not be known to people who view an episode. Trivia is attached at the episode level, not the show level. It should be specific to what aired in the episode and not deal with off-camera events, which should be submitted in the "notes" form. A car license-plate number is trivia, and a producer walking off the set is a note. (Back)

Allusions

Allusions: An allusion is an indirect or passing reference to an existing form of media, be it to another TV program, a movie, a piece of music, or a book. Allusions are prevalent in television shows, and some shows, like The Family Guy, make extensive use of this kind of humor. When submitting allusions, always credit the original media being referenced with as much detail as possible. (Back)

Nielsen Ratings

Nielsen Ratings are copyrighted material. Nielsen Ratings should not be submitted to any guide or accepted by any editor. (Back)

Guest Stars

Persons featured in historical footage typically should not be listed as Guest Stars, particularly if they have no other TV appearances. They can be included in Notes or the Recap. (Back)

Editor Blog Guidelines

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The Editor's Blog will appear on the summary page of your guide. You can use it to post news,interesting tidbits, upcoming appearances, etc., related to that particular show or person. This is not the place to talk about what you did on your summer vacation or announce your birthday.

Editor's Blog can be used for:

Posting Show News
Interesting Information
Upcoming Appearances

Editor Blog cannot be used for:

Copyright News Articles
Copyright Pictures
External Links
Submission Guidelines

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TV.com Editor Guidelines -- How to Moderate Show Forums

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The moderator powers for show editors appear in two drop-down menus, both labeled "(select an action below)". The first is the normal Message menu at the lower right of each message. The second is the new Topic Commands menu at the upper right of each page of a thread.

The Message menu choices for you in your show forum are now:

Moderate
Report Abuse to Moderator
Edit Message

View Edit History

"Moderate" is the same as "Report Abuse to Moderator" in that it puts a report in the general moderation queue and in the user's Permanent Record. But in this case you, as a Moderator, get to take action on it immediately. Use this when there are TOS violations or you just want there to be a record of what you did.

"Delete Message" simply deletes the message, and no record is kept. Use this when you are just deleting duplicate posts or whatever. NOTE: If this is the first message in a thread, deleting it will delete the entire thread.

"Edit Message" allows you to correct something in the original message, rather than simply deleting the whole thing. PLEASE USE THIS WITH CARE. Except for trivial corrections, you should label an edited section with "EDIT: " and briefly state the purpose of your edit. Note that you can edit the topic title of a thread by editing the first message in the thread and going to the "Topic:" line at the top.

"View Edit History" allows you to see what previous versions of an edited message were like.

The new Topic Commands menu can be found at the upper right of each page of a thread right above the buttons labeled " Page 1 | Previous Page | Next Page ".

The Commands menu choices are:

Make This Topic Sticky [or Un-Stick This Topic]
Close This Topic [or Re-Open This Topic]
Delete This Topic
Move This Topic
Mark All Msgs in This Topic Read

"Make This Topic Sticky" is a toggle that will either pin or un-pin the thread. "Close This Topic" locks the thread so that no new messages can be posted in it. "Move This Topic" can be used to move the topic to another forum for which you are editor, but is obviously of limited use. Generally, requests to move a topic to a different forum such as Off-Topic or Games should be made to the general forum moderators. This can be done either by PM or by posting in the "About the Forums - Ask the Mods" Forum.

Theoretically, it is possible for you to check the moderation queue for your show's forum to see what actual abuse reports have been made by other users, but in general we recommend that you leave this to the experienced general forum moderators, so that TOS violations can be handled in a uniform manner over the entire site. Only the general forum moderators have access to a user's moderation history to evaluate if the abuse is part of a pattern, and only they can suspend or request a ban on a user.

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Forum Moderation Guidelines for Show Editors

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The following are some guidelines for moderating forums. It's hoped that editors keep them in mind when moderating so as to ensure consistency across forums, and within the same forum if an editorship changes hands.

1 ) While show editors are "in charge" of their show forums, the forums are still ultimately owned by TV.com. Editors should not consider the show forums their personal boards. Editors and other users have their personal blogs for personal matters and other information unrelated to the show.

2 ) The TV.com Terms of Service remain in effect for both editors and users. Editors should familiarize themselves with the TOS and if they have any questions, contact a forum moderator.

3 ) Editors do not have to moderate their forums, but staff and forum moderators may take on this responsibility if in their opinion a forum gets out of control.

4 ) A show forum is intended primarily for discussion of that show. If the discussion expands to a range of shows, a general forum might be a better place to take it. Just because there is nowhere else to discuss a movie or a music video does not mean it's on-topic in a show forum.

5 ) Game threads are limited to 4 per forum at the editor's discretion and are restricted to games specifically relating to the show or person. Off-topic lounge-type threads are limited to 1 per forum, at the editor's discretion. For show and person forums without an editor, these types of threads aren't allowed.

6 ) Editors are expected to enforce topicality, but have some discretion. Spam, one-word posts, and other means of rapidly accumulating post counts are frowned upon. Editors may want to review the Off-Topic Forum rules for more on such spam and "no-content" posts.

7 ) Editors should try to keep the number of pinned threads to 10 or less. More than this unnecessarily clutters the forum's first page.

8 ) A show forum is allowed up to four game threads, which may be pinned or not as the editor wishes (they may allow a lesser number, or none). Any additional show-related game threads can be moved to the TV Show Fun & Games Forum, PM a general forum moderator to make such a request. If there are more than four game threads and they are not pinned, forum moderators will pin the four most recent active games and move the others.

9 ) Fan fiction and screen captures are technically legal, but may be disallowed at the editor's discretion.

10 ) Editors can only move topics between forums they are editor for. If an editor wants to move a thread to a forum they don't edit, they should PM a forum moderator.

11 ) Although editors have the right and indeed the responsibility to close or delete any topic they decide is inappropriate, they must give a specific reason, or post and pin a specific set of rules. Editors cannot force users to request permission before creating any new topic in the forum.

12 ) Closing and deleting threads should be done with caution. They often represent the time and effort of a great many contributors. Closing is preferable to deleting, since a closed thread can be reopened. A deleted thread cannot be undeleted.

13 ) If an editor has an issue with a poster, it's best to contact them privately rather than argue with them in public, attempt to shame them, etc. Such attempts almost always turn into extended arguments and flame wars.

14 ) Finally, while editors have discretion, they are still ultimately responsible both to TV.com and to the users. Editors should always try to set aside their personal preferences and moderate their show forums in a fair and unbiased manner, respecting the preferences and personalities of everyone present and treating everyone the same. Editors should always act in a courteous and professional manner when dealing with forum users. Any editor suspected of abusing their moderation privileges will be investigated and dealt with appropriately.

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Episode Submission Criteria

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As far as episode submissions go for shows which have not yet aired: ie. Fall Season '08, mid-season replacements early '09, Spring Season '09...

When entering a "NEW" episode, you need to have at least 2 out of the 3 following criteria PLUS an accessible URL for the source of the information you are adding (besides also entering Episode Season/Lifetime Numbers and Episode Type):

-Episode Name
-Unique Episode Summary
-Episode Airdate

NOTE: "Pilot" is not a valid episode title for a first episode unless you have a resource that specifically states that the episode is in fact titled "Pilot". This also goes for choosing "Pilot" for the "Episode Type" - unless it is a stand alone episode or before the airing of the series, generally it would be a regular episode. Also, the dates that were added by staff for these pilots were an estimate based on the information available at the time and was added so people would know if it was fall or midseason for the purposes of the feature (so, if the show summary says 09/01/06 or 01/01/07 it is an estimate to indicate the season the show will be airing in and not information for the episodes to go by). You can also update the show summary information as it becomes available but it is not reliable for purposes of episode airdates.

Episode summaries must be unique: repeating the same basic summary/concept is not acceptable. A URL that TV.com cannot access is not an accessible URL.

***If the above requirements are not met, your submission will be rejected. When editing these episodes thereafter, you must also have a URL for any edits you are making up until the episode(s) actually airs.***

[Since these episodes have not yet aired and whatever the most current information regarding them is definitely available on the internet, there isn't any reason why you shouldn't be able to provide one.]

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TV.com Person Submission Guidelines

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Welcome to the TV.com Person Submission Guidelines for submitting new material to editorless person pages. If a person has no appearances listed, please PM a tv.com staff member and let them know. It's possible the entry may be present in error and needs to be deleted. We will update these guidelines as things change on the site, so consider this your most valuable resource for general information about TV.com person guidelines!

If the First/Last (and Middle if applicable) name fields are blank, or the gender isn't selected, please fill them in regardless of anything else you put on the page. This makes sure people show up in the search engine.

If you make an edit, please use Comments to indicate exactly what you are changing. The less clear you are about what you're adding, the less likely your submission is to be accepted.

Also, if you decide to reorganize info, particularly moving it from one category to another, please check to make sure the information isn't copied from another site. Just because the material slipped by once or was cut-n-pasted back on TVTome does not make it acceptable for it to be here now, or to be resubmitted as part of a clean-up effort.

TV.com Person Submission Guidelines

Biography
Copy / Paste Material
Movie / TV / Play Titles
Quotes
Reference to Time Submissions
Trivia
Submission Policy for Non-TV Stars (Athletes, Musicians, Politicians)

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Biography

Place of Birth, Full Name, Birth Name, Date of Birth, Date of Death, Cause of Death, credited Aliases, etc., should all be submitted here rather than as Trivia.

A brief Biography should sum up the person's career, have unique content rather then restate material already on the page, and be roughly 50+ words long and contain two or more sentences.
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Copy / Paste Material

As per Terms of Use, all material submitted unless otherwise noted must be the contributor's own content, and stated in their own words. If the bulk of at least one sentence can be found on another site using a search engine, the submission will be rejected.

You should provide a specific source for all material. If there is a URL, provide the complete URL (rather than just "wikipedia"). If you don't and staff can't verify the information, your submission may be rejected with a request for the source.

Stick to facts about the person's life, not yours or anyone else's opinions. Don't use exclamation marks on Trivia and Biography entries. Alternately, if you're citing a source for a commonly held opinion, provide that source. Vague statements like "People think" or "Critics say" or "They are best known as" are not acceptable.

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Unacceptable: Frank Jones is the greatest actor of all time!
Acceptable: Readers in the March 2005 issue of Entertainment Weekly voted Frank Jones the greatest actor of all time.
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Movie / TV / Play Titles

Movie, TV, and play show titles (and other types of titles as well) must be italicized, bolded, or in quotation marks as per tv.com standards. If one of these formats is already in use on the page, stick with that.

Outside of quote identifiers, do not italicize, bold, or otherwise special format names of people, bands, institutes, products, etc.

Always assume the reader knows nothing about the person you're writing for and what they've been in. Even if they're in a single show, that may change in the future.

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Unacceptable: Bob was chosen because he impressed the director with his skills. (Chosen for what? What director? What skills?)
Acceptable: Bob was chosen for the role of "Jim Bob" on Who Wants to Be a Pig Farmer? because he impressed director Samantha Smith with his pig-slopping skills.
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Quotes

Quotes should be interesting and give the readers insight about the person's life, values, beliefs, etc. As with Trivia, having 20+ Quotes is often as bad as having none. Ten is typically a good maximum.

Quotes can be cut-n-pasted for the purposes of accuracy, and as copyright law does not cover public statements. Q&A-type copyrighted interviews belonging to web sites, magazines, etc., in part or in whole, are not acceptable. Wholesale cut-n-paste from another site's copyrighted database in any number is not acceptable.

Quotes should always be formatted to tv.com standards. The name is bolded using HTML start and end tags, the colon is not. At least one space follows the colon. The quotation itself is not in quotation marks. Contextual material is italicized and separated from the bulk of text using brackets or parentheses. If another format is used on the page, please correct it. Do not use BB code. An example of HTML tags usage:

Code:

<strong>Joe Smith</strong>: <em>(about George Washington)</em> He is my idol and inspiration.

Quotes should be the person's own words about their own life or someone who influenced their life. Quotes from their TV shows and/or movies are typically not acceptable (see below). Reviewer comments about the person are not acceptable.

Quotes from a person's books, scripts, stand-up routines, political speeches, stage performances, etc., are not acceptable except for one or two well-known quotes or catch phrases.

Provide context for the quote. An actor talking about "he," "she," "my show," etc., means nothing to most readers.

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Unacceptable: Joe Smith: He is my idol and inspiration.
Acceptable: Joe Smith: (about George Washington) He is my idol and inspiration.
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Reference to Time Submissions

All material submitted should be in complete sentences. This includes a subject noun (the person's first name, full name, or simply he/she) and a period at the end of the sentence.

General submissions with no reference to time should be reworded. The words "currently" and "recently" and "now" tell the reader nothing about when the event occurred since they don't know when the entry was provided. Please provide a specific time reference, or at least the year, when posting. Don't assume another site that says "currently" is necessarily up-to-date either.

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Unacceptable: Is currently married to Mary Jo
Acceptable: As of 2006 he is married to Mary Jo Smith.
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Trivia

Trivia should be obscure but interesting. Keep in mind that not all readers may be fans of the person, and having dozens and dozens of Trivia items is often as bad as having none. As with quotes, taking another site's copyrighted compilation/database of trivia is a violation of tv.com policy and copyright.

Appearances in and of themselves are typically not Trivia since they are already listed on the page under All Appearances. It is acceptable to submit TV appearances if the show does not currently have an entry on TV.com. However, see below for the submission of related material. If they had an appearance on a show that is listed on TV.com, but their appearance isn't under All Appearances, submit them for the show/episodes that they appeared. Once the editor or staff approves your submission, they appear automatically under the celebrity's Appearances.

Trivia should typically be about the person you're submitting for. Unless it has a direct bearing on the person's life, what their mother, grandfather, dentist, etc., did is not acceptable.

Trivia should be confirmed facts that have actually occurred, not rumors. News about future events is iffy and it's typically better to wait until such events have occurred and can be confirmed. Likewise, try not to submit info that will need regular updating, such as upcoming movie appearances, scores and statistics for their current season, etc.

Do not submit mailing addresses and off-site URLs.

Please do not submit "Trivia" that can be easily determined by information already on the page such as birthdate (i.e., astrological signs, year of high school graduation, their current age, shared birthdays etc.).

Whenever possible, all related material should be combined into a single submission. This refers primarily to brief one-line items, but can include taking a Biography and breaking it up into separate Trivia submissions. This includes but is not limited to: movies and roles, sporting statistics, awards, physical description, family members, discographies, and favorites.

Do not post "constant update" Trivia. i.e., Trivia that is simply a continuing update of something in their lives. "Fred Jones appeared in 24 episodes of Leave It To Weasel." when the show is still on the air and they're still participating in it isn't acceptable.

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Unacceptable: (three separate submissions)
"He played in the World Series in 1992."
"He played in the World Series in 1993."
"He played in the World Series in 1994."
Acceptable: He played in the World Series from 1992-1994.
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Submission Policy for Non-TV Stars (Athletes, Companies, Musicians, Politicians)

TV.Com's primary intent is to focus on TV stars: people who work primarily in the TV industry. This includes actors, crew, and reality-show "actors." With this in mind, the policy for non-TV stars is differs from that for TV stars.

Someone who does not work primarily in the TV industry should not be listed as a guest cast member for any show unless the person has three or more televised appearances. Typically such a person's appearance should be added as a Note for the show(s) in which the appearance was made. (If the person is listed in the title or summary, a Note isn't necessary.)

Editors should not approve any such guest cast submissions or these submissions themselves. Any such entries found in the guides, should be removed. Once a non-TV star has three or more Appearance Notes, the notes should be deleted and the indiviual should be added as a guest star. When removing these notes, please use the comments section of the submission form to indicate what you are doing and why.

Additionally, video and archival footage appearances should never be entered as a guest cast member.

If you find a non-TV Star with inappropriate Appearances, please submit to the episode/show, deleting the a guest cast member and adding the appearance as a Note. Please use the comments section of the submission form to indicate what you're doing and why. Then, please use the Delete a Show/Person guide form found here to submit the guide for removal.

If you find a non-TV Star with three or less Appearances, do not submit to that guide. Your submissions will be rejected.

Athletes and Sporting Events

For a sporting event, team members should not be listed as main stars or guest cast members.

An athlete's sports stats, if the athlete is currently playing, should be placed in the Trivia section and limited to one year, and only after each season is over. If the athlete's career has ended, the lifetime stats should be listed in the biography.

Companies

Companies should not have guides. They should be added as a note.

Musicians

A musician's or band's current discography should be listed in the biography, with any additional album releases added in the Trivia section as appropriate. If the career has ended, then the complete discography should be listed in the biography.
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TV.com Review Guidelines

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TV.com Review Guidelines Index

How does TV.com policy apply to reviews?
What if I really hate a show or episode and want to rant about it?
What do "flaming" and "trolling" mean when someone reports my review?
I reported someone for Flaming on their review, but it's still there. What's the deal?
I want to review an episode that hasn't aired yet.
I can't reach the minimum word count. What can I do?
Can I use someone else's review?
Now that I have my review here, can I post my review at another site?
Is the review still mine if I post it at TV.com?

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How does TV.com policy apply to reviews?

Reviews fall under the same general rules as forums and blogs, and the rules against Flaming, Trolling, Censor Bypassing, etc. apply.

Reasonable criticism and informed debate are expected just like on the forums, for good and bad reviews alike. Hostile and insulting comments directly or indirectly aimed at a show's writers, producers, actors, etc., should be avoided.

Reviews, like blogs and signatures, are more your "personal space" then the forums so the standards are a little looser. However, you are using a shared community resource to post your review. Basically explain why you like or dislike something, and you'll be fine. (Back)

What if I really hate a show or episode and want to rant about it?

If you can explain why you hate the show stating reasonable criticisms, no problem. Otherwise if you're hostile or insulting it will probably be considered flaming and treated accordingly. The review space is for reviews. Personal blogs are for personal rants. Rants and reviews are not the same thing. (Back)

What do "flaming" and "trolling" mean when someone reports my review?

Explaining why a performance was bad or writing is bad is Reviewing (even if expressed...creatively). Insulting the performer or the writer is Flaming. TV.com recognizes that not everyone is a literary genius, and try to cut folks slack. Basically the more hostile and insulting your comments, the more likely it's Flaming.

Trying to provoke a response from fans by directing comments toward them is Trolling.

Review: The lead actor stutters, stares off into space, and moves like a pregnant yak.
Flame: The lead actor's a stinking pregnant yak and a major jerk.
Troll: Why do you stupid jerks think this pregnant yak of an actor has any talent whatsoever?

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I reported someone for Flaming on their review, but it's still there. What's the deal?

See above for the definition of Flaming with a review. Just because someone doesn't like the show and wrote a review explaining why doesn't mean they are flaming. Even using creative terms to address and clarify specific problems isn't flaming. Reviews are intended to express personal opinion, and TV.com recognizes personal opinions can vary. A lot. Mark down "Disagree" and move on. (Back)

I want to review an episode that hasn't aired yet.

TV.com's policy is that reviews of future episodes shouldn't be posted. This avoids giving away spoilers and reduces the possibility of fictional reviews.

Any episode which has been made available online or through promotional discs but has not yet been broadcast on television in its usual timeslot is still considered "unaired." (Back)

I can't reach the minimum word count. What can I do?

The minimum word count is there to assure that you use reasonable criticism. If you can't reach the minimum number of words, your review isn't going to be very good. Try to explain why you like or dislike something in complete sentences, you should be fine.

Do not pad out a review with repetitive words and sentences, gibberish character fills, cut-n-pastes of cast lists, show summaries, etc. (Back)

Can I use another of my reviews from this site?

No. Cutting-and-pasting of the same review with minor changes for show titles, etc., creates a "spam review" and is not allowed. (Back)

Can I use one of my reviews from another site and post it here?

This is not encouraged since it is difficult to ascertain that you are the owner of that review at the other site. We will probably remove your review on TV.com rather then risk copyright infringement. (Back)

Can I use someone else's review?

No. As per Terms of Use, all creative content you post at TV.com must be your own. (Back)

Now that I have my review here, can I post my review at another site?

Yes, but make sure it is dated at that other site. If your review is at TV.com first, it's not a problem. If it appears you took it from another site and we can't establish you own it, we may remove it for suspected copyright violation. (Back)

Is the review still mine if I post it at TV.com?

As per Terms of Use, material you contribute is and remains "Your Content" and you retain ownership while granting TV.com permission to use and reproduce it. (Back)

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