A New Replacement for TV Tome

Randall311 writes to tell us about, what the creators hope will be, a new replacement for the old TV Tome website, the TV IV Wiki. The once popular TV Tome website was absorbed by CNET in April of this year and most of the content was added to their TV.com website. Many users dislike the new format with vast amounts of flash, obnoxious ads, and missing content. So, if you liked the old TV Tome website perhaps this will allow the community to rebuild what it has lost.

Comments

Possible Problems with Wiki Medium?

[Scoria]

This seems as though it would be an absolute haven for trolls looking to provide "unsolicited" spoilers. Have the individuals responsible for the TV IV Wiki taken any precautions against this?

Re:Possible Problems with Wiki Medium?

[amodm]

IMHO in the long term, the positives of the wiki approach far outweigh the negatives.

Look at wikipedia: some or the other time a page is spoiled, but its recovered very quickly and I believe its one of the most reliably informative sites on the net.

The warning is there, because of the _potential_ of spoilers.

One of the mechanisms in place is that no anonymous editing is allowed. People need to register to edit. That way, a spolier's account can be locked. For every spolier, a person would need to create an account. Its tedious in the least.

Re:Poor resource

[/ASCII]

TV Tome didn't always have thousands of programs, hopefully tviv will start catching up quickly. This is a bit like what happened with CDDB and FreeDB. Sure CDDB was a much better source for a while, but FreeDB quickly caught on and is new a perfectly viable source of CD information.

And since both sites are free, your comment about getting what you pay for makes no sense whatsoever.

Re:Poor resource

[tabkey12]

The only appeal that this may have is that it is a wiki so users can update as they see fit. Unfortunately, most of the time, you get what you pay for.

TV.com is free to use, and you can edit most of the information as if it was a wiki. It's the advertising and interface that sucks...

Re:bahh..

[tomhudson]

How is this a troll?

By 2000, tv viewing was down 27% in homes with a fucking DIAL-UP connection.

My dogs watch more TV than me.

I have watched a total of 2 hours of tv this summer (and that was a dvd). Better to get out of the house and visit friends and family, etc., than to waste time watching advertising and not-funny "comedies."

Heck, even slashdot is better than the average TV fare.

Cue William Shatner

[WidescreenFreak]

I think that William Shatner's classic "Saturday Night Live" skit is more of what you're looking for.

{Shatner at podium at a "Star Trek" convention}

"Before I continue I just want to say ... Get a life! Would you, people? It's just a TV show! {points to geek with Spock ears} You! Have you even kissed a girl? {geek slowly lowers head} I didn't think so!"

Even at that, you're still a pompous coward for posting AC. :P