My $0.02 On Adding a Beer on This Site

Just sent in some duplicates today.

Is there a way for people who keep adding beers that are duplicates to have their "adding beers to the site" statistic to go down once the duplicate is found? I would definitely support this. Or maybe it already happens, me, I'm not sure. If anything, in my opinion, it would definitely be a push back to hinder people from just adding instead of searching.

 

After reading this thread, and after recently adding a couple beers it dawned on me that the style list from which to select when adding a new beer differs from the styles in the 'official' Beer Style list. I didn't count the styles in each list, but it just seems that a difference exists. The two lists are certainly in a different order. It would be nice to have the lists be the same.

 

When we merge beers, the earliest person who added it to the site receives the credit. Other gets deleted along with the statistic.

 

This is a good thing! Hoping users know this!

 

This is a little frustrating. I reported a series of beers that were added and labeled 'test' beers by myself, pointing out they had been put into distribution under a different label, and requested the names be changed to match the new series ("test" vs. "tasting room"). The change was never made; however, my beers have been removed after I self-reported them some months later.

Likewise, the photos I uploaded (which were for the tasting room series) have been taken down, but no new labels have been put in their place.

I still have the images somewhere that I can re-upload, but it is a little frustrating making a report ahead of the curve only to have it ignored. Especially if being diligent still results in my additions being removed.

@superspak @dbrauneis

 

I stand corrected. Thank you.

I reported the other occurrences for the site team to take care of at this point. Should I suggest name edits per beer profile in the future in lieu of flagging a batch that has been re-labeled?

 

Yeah, I can understand how this is frustrating to you and I'm guessing you were probably not the only BA effected by something like this but you mentioned/tagged admin that were quick to respond with an appropriate comment. But that's why I said what I said, cuz I had that 'odd feeling ' BA's didn't know that they were losing add-in's on here, and that probably in turn effected their beer karma. Me, I don't give a hoot about beer karma, I would rather see a clean database of beers all over. However, I have seen threads where BA's mention they want a bigger beer karma.

 

I would like to know if I'm missing beer's in the system and be notified when my additions are duplicates. The bigger problem for me is I want to be given credit for my photos. I had a photo from this site used without my permission and I can say it is quite frustrating. I have since decided not to share my photos save for labels for this very reason.

The site editors did a wonderful and thorough job responding to my inquiry. I thought it would have sufficed to flag the brewery as a whole to avoid several individual reports, alas it did not. In the future, I'll take the time to make the individual reports. I thank them for updating me on the process and state of events.

 

Only thing I can suggest is contact admin on here, maybe even @Todd or @Jason , maybe start a thread indicating that it would be a good idea for notifications to be sent to users who are adding duplicates. Maybe suggest it here, sorry, I can't help you in that regard, it doesn't seem very fair to users who care as much as I can tell you do. I feel we both care enough about having a clean database.

 

Understandable. I get it. But like Harrison8 said, thanks for a rapid and informative response and on a Saturday night! Keep on doing what you do. If no one else thanks you, I will.

 

@FLima, I tried to message you, but you blocked PMs apparently. Please read the FAQ for adding beers: https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/how-to-add-beers-on-beeradvocate.193134/. Adding the brewery name to the beers is not necessary anymore; unless it is a collaboration, or the listed brewery is making another brand. I will clean up everything you added eventually, but I wanted you to know. Cheers

 

Weird to me that the Bros allowed users to have control of blocking pm's from site editors. To you to do proper editing, it's not fair. And not fair to the rest of us who want a clear and concise database of beers and places.