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This article is about the current form of the service. For the predecessor of this website (before 2005), see TV Tome.

TV.com is a website belonging to the CNET Games and Entertainment family of website. The service replaced the popular TV Tome website.

The site covers television and focuses on English-language shows made or broadcast in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Ireland. In addition to episode guides, it includes US-oriented news, reviews, photos, trailers and TV listings.

The site shares the same accounts as other sites within CNET Games and Entertainment. Users maintain a personal profile page and the ability to track shows. Members can contribute to the site by adding information about the latest episode details and cast members.

TV.com provides show descriptions, cast and crew listings, and detailed episode guides for many TV shows. Episode guides may include synopsis information, a complete recap, notes and trivia, quotes and more. Information is dependent on volunteer contributions so some shows, particularly more recent ones, are extremely detailed while others may have minimal information.

Editors and Trusted Users

While much of the information is submitted by general users, most guides have Editors and sometimes Trusted Users. [1] A guide Editor has immediate control over all aspects of the guide and any changes they make to a guide they edit appear immediately. Editorship is determined by the Points system — a user becomes Editor for a show when they have at least 80 points for that show. (40 points for people) If the show / person has an existing editor, then that editor will be replaced if another user gains 80 / 40 more points than they currently have. The Show / Person editor has direct approval capability over all information submitted. Submissions are sent to their queue (if they are over Level 5), where they may choose to approve (with edits if necessary) or reject them.

The editor may also designate up to two other contributors as Trusted Users. Trusted Users also have immediate submission power, but do not handle submissions and do not have the power to edit show descriptions. It is recommended that this setting be used with care, as anyone designated as a Trusted User can much more easily gain enough points to become Editor.

Discussion

TV.com has two types of forums as well as live chats.

General Forums

This forums are used for discussion that isn't related to a specific program.
* TV.com ideas (Site suggestions)
* Support & User Submission Questions (Questions about the site are posted here)
* About the Forums - Ask the Mods (The site Mods answer the questions posted on this board)
* TV.com Technical Support Board
* General TV Discussion
* Off-Topic
* Shows in Development
* TV Show Fun & Games (if a show forum has more than four game threads, they are moved to this board)
* Drama
* Comedy
* Science-Fiction
* Reality
* Animation
* Soaps
* News/Documentary
* Talk Shows
* Children
* Sports
* Ask the Editors
* Editor's Lounge
* Television Hardware
* Downloading Television

Show Forums

Additionally, every show has its own forum. Some of the most popular show forums are Code Lyoko, Teen Titans, Danny Phantom, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xiaolin Showdown, Charmed, Grey's Anatomy, Alias, Angel, The Simpsons, Kyle XY, Lost, Smallville, Desperate Housewives, and SpongeBob SquarePants. As of July 2006, TV.com added the ability for users to add polls to each thread they created.

Forum Moderation

According to Gislef, one of the five forum moderators, forum moderation works in two stages:
* The forum users can report threads that they believe violate TV.com's forum policy, using the pulldown tool at the lower right of each thread.
* These reports go to a central queue which a volunteer team of five moderators have access to, although staff can look in as well. Reports are essentially randomly assigned and the moderator who fields the case determines if the report requires action. Such action can involve doing nothing, deleting the post (which replaces it with an automated message), deleting the entire thread, locking the thread, suspending the user, or giving a full report of all violations to TV.com staff and letting them determine if a ban is necessary.

As of July 2006 the five volunteer forum moderators are AngelandSpike, Gislef, GeorgeFergus, Grailwolf, and VillaFan. TVCom_Moderator is an account used by staff and the five forum moderators. It is primarily an "automated account" used to send warnings of forum violations and notifications of suspensions.

As of early 2006 the show editors can moderate their own show forums, even if they have less power than a forum moderator. Editors can pin (make sticky), lock or delete threads without asking a mod to do it.

Forum moderators also review blog entries, reviews, profile and news comments.

Live Chats

In 2006, TV.com introduced live chats to the site. The chat rooms open at the same time that the program which the chat is about start, so it's a chat-and-watch experience. At April 19, 2006, four chats were held: Lost Chat, 24 Chat, Huff Chat and American Idol chat. During the week of approximately May 17-24, 2006, a "Finale Spring Fling" was held with chat rooms for many shows with finales in or just before that period.

Levels

Each user on TV.com has their own level. Since high-leveled users were complaining about the difficulty of leveling up after reaching level 50, the staff tweaked the difficulty of levels 50 and beyond in April 2006.

Staff

* missribs - Community Producer
* waltmor - Programming Producer
* bboys577 - Site Manager - TV.com
* freaksngeeks - Site Designer
* Danmod - Data Producer
* smushmeg - Site Developer
* cooncesean - Site Developer
* emaldalani - Data Manager - CNET Entertainment
* symlink - Director of Development, CNET Games and Entertainment
* dudelance - Software Engineer (retired from CNET)
* TVTome_John - Former TV Tome Webmaster
* Teivan - CNET Games & Entertainment Technician
* CybertronR - Technical Producer for GameSpot, MP3.com, and TV.com
* Mr_Lara - VP of Product - Games and Entertainment
* Vermifuge - CNET Engineer
* honeybuzzer - Operations Manager for GameSpot, MP3.com, and TV.com
* sbritton - Engineer - CNET Games & Entertainment
* VinceL - CNET Games & Entertainment Technician
* BallGame - VP of Technology - CNET Games and Entertainment
* Butlers - CNET Developer
* jsd - CNET Games & Entertainment - Director of Technology
* Snide - David Snider, Site Architect - CNET Games and Entertainment (retired from CNET)

External links

*TV.com

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