Color coding seasonal, one-time, limited, etc beers.

Talk Discussion in 'BeerAdvocate Talk' started by goodbeer4cheap, Dec 8, 2015.

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  1. goodbeer4cheap

    goodbeer4cheap Devotee (375) Nov 28, 2012 Indiana

    I love this site but I have one huge gripe with it and although I am not often a posting person I have used the site for years of beer know how. I would love the bro's or other monitoring site people to color code or otherwise fix the huge problem I have with the site. So many one time or former and no longer on the market and seasonal released beers are listed without that information that you will never find them again and a lot of beers are listed two ways. No improvements makes this site stale as this issue has been steady from the first time I came here and that was the beginning days. I in all honestly have always been a craft beer guy since 1993 when I was a legal drinker and as my name suggests I like reasonable priced products.
     
    #1 goodbeer4cheap, Dec 8, 2015
  2. Treyliff

    Treyliff Grand Pooh-Bah (5,025) Aug 10, 2010 West Virginia
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    It is the users responsibility to update incorrect listing of beers. A few people can't keep track of 50k+ beers. There is an update tab on the page of every beer. Feel free to send an update, I've done several.
     
    #2 Treyliff, Dec 8, 2015
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  3. dbrauneis

    dbrauneis Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,071) Dec 8, 2007 North Carolina
    Mod Team BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    And beers that were one-offs are automatically archived after one year (assuming they were submitted with the Availability set to "Limited"). Otherwise, as @Treyliff said please submit updates - I process approximately 10-20 of these every day but there is no way I can keep track of 100K or more beers with the handful of other Site Editors (we depend on updates from the user base).
     
    #3 dbrauneis, Dec 8, 2015
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  4. goodbeer4cheap

    goodbeer4cheap Devotee (375) Nov 28, 2012 Indiana

    I thank you both for replying to me on this but both of your suggestions do not answer what would make this site awesome which is some kind different marking for limited time or otherwise not regular and seasonal reoccurring beers. I would think only brewers themselves (and you link many people to their websites) should be the ones to send updated data. Maybe survey them and ask us users help on those that do not respond. I think you have enough users who would be willing to make this work.
     
    #4 goodbeer4cheap, Dec 8, 2015
  5. Todd

    Todd Founder (13,518) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
    STAFF Mod Team Society Pooh-Bah

    Thanks for the suggestion, but we're going to pass on the idea. Beers are already tagged as seasonal, limited, retired, etc., so I don't see this as any form of improvement.

    And the site is already awesome.
     
    #5 Todd, Dec 8, 2015
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