HenryFord Wrote:No, I think you explained well enough, I just misread:
You want to post wanted but missing episodes to the sickbeard-website to a list, not the usenet itself. So that people can make use of this list and (if they are available) post the appropriate episodes to the usenet... Did I catch that one correct? I got a little bit confused with the answers

mattressfish Wrote:That's it. Seems like a useful enough idea...

ECEC Wrote:You're better off posting requests to the actual newsgroups themselves, where the people that actually post might have a chance of seeing it. Alternatively, find a private torrent community somewhere that will respond to requests.

seand Wrote:#1 a few people actually do communicate via usenet the old fashioned way, the way it originally worked. If you are already have a usenet account to download there is nothing stopping you from setting an app like Mozilla's Thunderbird to access the appropriate newsgroup directly where say the other 10 episodes were posted and simply typing in a comment that you are interested in someone reposting the 11th one. People do actually read the usenet like a listserve sometimes. There is still a whole world where people have conversations much like this forum on usenet, which is where these files originally come from.

#2 the indexing sites for nzbs all have their own forums and that is another place to reach out for garbled or missing files.

There are already programs people use to send messages to eachother on newsgroups. I don't think Sickbeard should aim to redo what 20 other programs have already done for the last 15 years, just like it shouldn't aim to reinvent email. There are apps that do that function much better already.

mattressfish Wrote:The idea isn't about MY specific requests. Its about what a swarm of Sickbeard users are wanting to watch, but currently no one is capping. Let me try again to explain it...

(assuming someone has enabled this feature)

Every day, the Sickbeard application would upload what's on the user's backlog/wanted list. From that, the Sickbeard website would compile the data from all reporting users and come up with a "heat" index of shows that people want, but aren't currently available for download.

So for example, lets say that 100 users enable this feature. After data compilation, its shows that 30 users are requesting Jersey Shore, but no downloads have been found. From that, cappers (or anyone with the equipment to give back to the community) could cap and post the most requested shows.

I envisioned it being a feedback loop to see what big shows are being missed...

Does this expanded description make any sense? I'm not trying to recreate anything or another avenue to request reposting of corrupted .RARs. The idea is just to use the Sickbeard app for some useful crowd sourcing.

darkscout Wrote:Communicating to the 'scene' is as good as talking to Anonymous.

You might as well start a web petition.