What are we missing?

A drop down list of artists sounds good, but I see big problems: the list would be a mile long (I mean literally hundreds of band/artist names) and the list would never be complete (there would always be another theme song or artist not yet on the list that someone has a tab for).

I already dislike the lengthy list of destination countries/provinces/states to select from when arranging shipping - there would be far more artists than this.

If something along this line were attempted, I suggest an autofill - suggestions pop up based on the letters typed in when filling in the artist blank (e.g. type hol and Hole, Hollow, Holly and the Italians, Buddy Holly, etc. pop up). This would suffer from the same issue of incompleteness as the drop down, however.

As far as getting artist and song name spellings correct, I think the only way to get there is for that to be part of the approval process for submitted tabs - which means it will only be as good as the effort that persons approving tabs can bring to bear. Perhaps this should be enough to reject a tab - it remains in a person's pending folder until they go back and correct the misspellings. Maybe a message to the submitter - your tab can't be approved because the artist/band/song name is not correct. Again though, there are going to be submissions for anime/tv theme songs or local/regional artists where it could be impossible for someone in a holler in Kentucky or Slovenia to know how it should be spelled.

If a person is too lazy to find out and spell the artist and song names correctly, and their misnamed tab lingers long in limbo (unrated, unviewed, and unloved) tough luck. Given that they can't get the names right, I wouldn't expect much from their tab either.

Personally Id like some help when tabbing since Im not really good. Maybe some kind of “Work in Progress” stamp so others can see what has been done so far and leave suggestions. Dont know if anyone would want that but Id enjoy it alot (assuming people actually come in and help)

Oh, another change I'd like to see, though I'm sure there will be some who won't like hearing it, is that we shouldn't be able to rate our own tabs. We're all guilty of it – me included (two or three of my earliest tabs, anyway, and I felt like a total heel for doing it and haven't done it since) – but it's misleading to users who look that tab up.

Only other users should be able to rate your tab; rating it yourself is like writing a book and including a quote from yourself on the cover saying it's the greatest novel ever written. It's just not kosher.

I'm still showing a rating option on my tabs. Afraid to try it and make sure it doesn't work for fear that the rating will stick lol

Marko's surfing those fetishes sites again.