I guess there has recently been an influx of new Tv.com members. The reason I think this is because of the rash of submissions I've gotten in the last month or two from those who are Level 1 through Level 10 or so. What this is causing is a load of rejected submissions because of violations of the Tv.com TOS and/or the guidelines. Here's a sample of the things the newbies are doing: *) Cut and paste I've gotten more summaries recently that are directly cut and pasted from other sites. That right away tells you that they haven't read the TOS or guidelines. Copyrighted material from another site can not be used without permission at Tv.com. But just today, I got a word for word summary from an old Tv Guide. If you aren't doing a Google search for the summaries folks are submitting, you should. As editor, you are responsible for what goes in your guides. *) Notes and Trivia This is the main issue I'm having. I have one fairly new submitter who is a great writer and is passionate about a show. Only he can't seem to get the definition of what a Note is and what Trivia is. I've sent him the definitions quoted right from the guidelines but he still insists on writing books on theories behind the parallels between this show and some other thing that goes on forever. That's not what a note is. That goes in an episode review. Why people are reluctant to write episode reviews but want to write ten page notes, I don't know. With the "new" focus of Tv.com on opinion and reviews, you would think that would be where most of the activity would be now. *) Spelling I am really concerned for the future of this country just based on the number of spelling errors in EVERY submission I get. As is the practice of most senior editors, I reject the submission if there is more than one or two because it means they aren't checking it themselves. And on top of that, the sentence structure and usage is pretty sad. I tell them nicely what they need to do and then ask them to make corrections and to resubmit. Most rarely do. There are other issues but those are the most consuming my time right now. What is consuming yours?