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A New Replacement for TV Tome

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the community-collaboration-at-its-best dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Poor resource by /ASCII · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Re:Possible Problems with Wiki Medium? by amodm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.