MIA EDITORS

An editor is considered MIA if they have not been active on the site for over 30 days and/or submissions in their editor's queue have been pending for more than 3 days (for a show on our Top 20 List,) or more than 7 days (for a show NOT on the Top 20 List.) Any submissions left unmoderated longer than the deadline may be moderated by TV.com staff. Inactive editors who have not logged into the site for 30 days or longer may be force-retired from their guide(s), regardless of whether or not there are new subs in their queues. This is to ensure that editors are active and ready to moderate submissions whenever they come in.

If you need to report an editor as MIA, send a PM to this profile. You must include the following information:

• username in the Subject Line
• ID of the guide(s)
• specific reason(s) for why you are reporting them as MIA.

The ReportMIAEditor inbox will be checked every Wed. and Friday. We will not issue responses from ReportMIA but you will recieve a PM from staff letting you know the outcome of the investigation. Staff will NOT discuss the details of the investigation.

Each MIA case will be considered unique, and staff may use some discretion in regards to the amount of submissions pending in the editor's queue, how popular the guide is, the editor's history with the guide, etc.

Any editor receiving a warning MUST respond to the warning PM as soon as possible with an explanation. Failure to respond within 7 days to any MIA warning will result in automatic retirement from the guide in question. The ReportMIAEditor inbox is checked daily. We will not issue responses from the ReportMIAEditor account but if necessary, you will receive a PM from staff letting you know the outcome of the investigation. Staff will NOT discuss the details of the investigation. As editors are given time to reply to the warning, it is not necessary to spam the ReportMIAEditor account with multiple PMs regarding the same editor. Doing so is counterproductive and may weaken your complaint.

Special Circumstances

If you are an editor and you know that you will be unavailable to edit your guide(s) for a set period of time, you can PM staff member nilla_chelle01 or post the details regarding your absence from TV.com in the pinned Editor Special Circumstances forum thread in the Ask the Editors forum. If you give us this courtesy beforehand, staff will check your queues for you during your absence. This will also ensure that you will not be considered MIA and not be retired from your guide(s).

Sometimes unplanned emergencies occur, and editors might not be able to log in and process their queues. All editors must keep in mind that any unreported absences and/or any submissions left unmoderated for 7 days might garner an MIA report. If an editor has a reason why certain submissions were not cleared within the 7 day time period, they must contact staff member nilla_chelle01 as to why or else risk an MIA report. Staff can't readily guess why an editor is missing or why submissions are left in the queues. But if submissions are backlogged, and users must wait longer than a week to get their submissions processed, then it is in the best interest of the site to retire the missing editor so that another, more active user can take over. Great care and investigation goes into the decision to retire an editor based on MIA reports. As a result, once an editor is force-retired from a guide, they cannot be reinstated, and requests to revert editorships will not be honored.

An editor will receive up to 2 warnings from TV.com Staff regarding MIA status before they are retired. Any editor receiving a warning MUST respond to TV.com Staff as soon as possible with an explanation. Failure to respond within 7 days to any MIA warning will result in automatic retirement from the guide in question.

**Please do NOT post any part of an MIA editor report as a comment on this blog. It will be deleted. Thank you.