Well... since most everyone has experienced the new submission sytem by now.. and all the great little bugs we get to work through, I figured it was at least worth mentioning it in a new blog post.

For the most part, I'd say I'm have an average experience of problems. As an editor of just one show, I certaining not swampped with submissions. Nor do I have a long list of episodes / cast lists to work and re-work. However, I do have a summer show, so it's tricky to keep things up-to-date each week when new submissions have problems going in.

Really quick, I'd just like to mention that I'm still, and will always be AMAZED by the people that serveral, if not LOTS, of shows they are editor for. Surely, I understand that people are fans of many shows. But I don't see the drive to try and earn the editorship for more shows. Personally, I like a good amount of shows. The ones I like most, I contribute to. If I have the editorship for the show... more power to me. But I'm not going to go out and try to look up stuff on shows just to earn points for it. I don't think I could properly manage all the shows I have "earned." I seems like many editors then reward other users with TU status. This way, they can delegate the show to someone else. But, in my opinion, if you don't have the time to work your queue for that site, then why not just retire the show to one of the TUs.

When the system went crazy last week, one of the popular bugs was the TU's lost premissions. With that, it bought up how many TUs are truly running the show guides. I see a couple editors with issues that "my TUs cannot get things done". Maybe I just don't understand the TU thing. I don't have a TU on Entourage, and I don't really plan to have one. I feel that I've I'm ready to have someone have TU status, I should just retire all together. Apparently I don't have the time to work the show anymore.

As of today, the things that are still going wrong with my world is:
1. the empty submission in my queue, but I think almost everyone has this by now
2. not able to edit existing cast. Very problematic because during the first couple days of new system, guest stars were submitted as "Self", which is not the convention on the Entourage guide. I want to go back and resubmit, but no way to at the moment.
3. Despite the fact that recurring stars is suppose to be easier, every submission I make to add one to the show guide never seems to take
4. Cannot seem to add writer/directors to new shows. I haven't tried in a few days, I guess I should try again.

I guess my biggest desire is to hear from someone that is in charge, giving us some status on the bugs. Suring there is the S.I.G. thread in the editors forum... but it's still a pain to read through. Even a mass PM to every user... or every editor... just as a "yeah.. we know. Stuff broke. These things are fixed. These things are broke still... for to be fixed by (insert date here)... yada..yada..yada". Just to hear something would be a good sign.