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Okay, the question of the week is: What the Fuck?
I got the boot from TV.com, and you want to know "WHY?"
This is my side of the story....
I got a PM that said I was banned for gaming the system and exploiting bugs.
The thing is, I didn't do anything different, well…..
(those guys are bastards I'm innocent) 
One thing that I did (different) was submitted to a show I was trusted on… I got the white screen… so, like everybody else I re-loaded the page and hit the backspace button still white screen, so, I did it all over 'till the white screen went away. It was a summary I was submitting so 8 points + the number of times I reloaded and backspaced , I ended up with 9 submissions and a considerable jump in points on that guide.…(my theory is someone noticed that jump and told the staffies)
Now the TV.com staff is vague about what exploiting bugs is or how(or not) to exploit bugs. Because they don't fix bugs, they only make more. (so I'm the poor helpless victim) 
One option I thought was good was to disable automatic PM's, with 10,000 submissions you would get 10,000 PM's. That was a no brainer I disabled automatic PM's. but with every CNet feature there are bugs. I did not get MOST of the PM's with the rejections (I got no PM's with approvals) telling why or whatever they would say in the rejection PM's. I got one and only one that said "refer to previous PM" WTF? I resubmitted the same thing and asked in the comments what they were talking about because I did not get MOST of the rejection PM's… they said "you got that one" …
….. Now (actually then ) I had a lot of guides. I did not need to "game" points on my own guides when I could just as easily submit to new guides, that's why I had an asinine amount of guides. I liked to push the limits of what I could submit that they would accept. Half the submission rules they have are because they didn't like what I was submitting so they changed the rules. I did exploit rules, not the bugs. Sentence fragments: I'd add the few words to make a complete sentence(2 points). I used to submit Astrological signs, Eastern and Chinese(4 points) Hair and eye color (4 points) political party(2 points) and who had the same birthday (2 points) they used to accept those now they don't .
So if they don't accept those as trivia's, anymore, I should get as many points for deleting them and they would accept that. (who's the Idiot here?) I guess that's gaming.
And they changed the rule about currently as in Bob currently lives in New York should be As of 2006, Bob currently lives in New York …so, I went back and changed the ones they already accepted. Oh, the Quotes in the trivia section got me quite a few guides.
I guess it might be considered an Exploit by some incompetent people, typing in a URL so as to edit a bio that has the "Edit Bio" button is disabled.
http://www.tv.com/usersubmission/celebrity_bio.html?celeb_id=
and the persons ID#
Well they probably would consider that "exploiting a bug".
All good things...
11:39 PM
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