Hey guys,
Just launched a small site on the side with a small team and we're looking for a group of beta users to play around with the site and give feedback.
The Site:
The Lowdown:
Thinkingsmartr is (hoping to become) the world's largest, collaborative suggestion box. The site allows you to create any topic you want (by default, you become the editor of each topic you create) and encourages you and others to collectively make suggestions that would improve the topic.
Each suggestion is voted on by the community and the best suggestions float naturally to the top while the least important suggestions fall to the bottom. The hope is that with enough passionatte users discussing their ideas to better a topic --- people will take note and the best suggestions will actually take foot.
For instance, say you have a bunch of ideas to make TV.com better. Go ahead and start the TV.com topic and post some suggestions to help make TV.com a better place. Others can then come in and vote on your suggestions (as well as make suggestions of their own) and with any luck your suggestions will actually be implemented on the site (please note -- this is not a garauntee that all or any suggestions will be fulfilled -- but I will personally be keeping an eye on that particular topic 
).
What we need:
A passionate group of users to play with the site and give us feedback on features you would like to see as well as bugs you come across as you use it. We also encourage you to spread the word --- as more get people involved, the more interesting and fun the site will be.
Thanks guys 
Comments
a. Long titles fold back on themselves obscuring the words.
b. One can not edit a posted title description for errors (ie typos).
c. There appears to be no place to report "bugs."
d. I was locked out of the PM system.
Good Luck,
jim
What, specifically, would you like to see improved upon on TV.com? Do other users agree with you?
I just started the TV.com topic if you'd like to join the discussion:
Thinkingsmartr.com/tv_com
a. Might be a browser issue.
b. Only editors (or users who start topics are allowed to edit them) -- this is done using the 'Edit Topic' link on the right hand side of the page (its a little obscured so maybe I'll make it a little more noticeable).
c. Locked out of the PM system -- that sucks! It should be open - so I'll take a look and get back to you.
Again, thanks.
laura -> the site is intended for anything and everything. you can start a topic on anything you want and invite others to suggest and comment on it. hopefully it sparks enough discussion that decision makers will have to take notice and use your suggestions to make their products better
I don't normally complain, but since you ask... Give us the functionality we lost with the closure of TVTome (sorting cast lists, allocating specials, correcting cast entries at a single pass, searching by alias, free text fields for crew positions). Fix the programming oversights (times missing from show summary drop-down, Writers & Directors page based on TVTome data at May 2005, Recurring Stars on Cast page based on TVTome data at May 2005, a script that assigned all TVTome show summary stars to every episode, another in summer 2005 that reclassified hundreds of Stars as recurring, a recurring script based on 5 actor appearances). Oh, and fix the bugs.
Once that's done, I'll be in a position to give some thought to a wish list. Meanwhile, I'm too busy dealing with the fallout from the conversion scripts to dally with a beta that you are selling as a duplicate of our own Ideas forum.
cooncesean