Cross-Posting to Multiple Threads

Talk Discussion in 'BeerAdvocate Talk' started by seakayak, Aug 14, 2021.

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Does Seeing Cross-Posts to Multiple Threads Impact Your Participation?

Poll closed Nov 6, 2021.
  1. Cross-posts improve the threads involved - the more the merrier!

    19 vote(s)
    25.3%
  2. Cross-posts detract from the threads involved - they become repetitive.

    11 vote(s)
    14.7%
  3. Cross-posts make no difference to me.

    45 vote(s)
    60.0%
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  1. ovaltine

    ovaltine Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,787) Apr 6, 2010 Indiana
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    In NBW and the tasting thread, yes, it’s essentially the same post (which is the review of the beer), though I’ll change the intro. The WBAYDN post will always be different - I don’t post reviews in that thread.
     
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  2. ovaltine

    ovaltine Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,787) Apr 6, 2010 Indiana
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    No, no it’s not. For me, it’s trying to drive more traffic for this site, which provides a lot of great information for all of us.
     
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  3. MNAle

    MNAle Initiate (0) Sep 6, 2011 Minnesota

    It's climate change. Try to keep up. :grin::innocent:
     
  4. FBarber

    FBarber Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,325) Mar 5, 2016 Illinois
    Mod Team BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    That makes no sense to me - the tastings actively encourage reviews - WBAYDN almost never has reviews … it’s kind of weird to see one there.

    Edit: this is not meant combatively - I just genuinely don’t understand the reasoning for that.
     
  5. bbtkd

    bbtkd Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,790) Sep 20, 2015 South Dakota
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    OK, just cross-posted in NBW and WBAYDN, we'll see if I get a nibble from the admin that canceled my posts before. I didn't copy the full review from NBW, but posted the picture and part of the text. That should be OK, I presume, based on posts here. :innocent:
     
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  6. GetMeAnIPA

    GetMeAnIPA Pooh-Bah (2,559) Mar 28, 2009 California
    Pooh-Bah

    Just because you’re posts don’t get likes don’t be made.
     
  7. papposilenus

    papposilenus Grand Pooh-Bah (3,232) Jun 21, 2014 New Hampshire
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    I can't see how it drives any additional traffic to the site at all. It's just the same eyeballs that were looking at the first post looking at the second post. Why not just click on the first post twice then? It's either masturbatory or incestuous, whichever the most apt offensive analogy may be.
     
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  8. papposilenus

    papposilenus Grand Pooh-Bah (3,232) Jun 21, 2014 New Hampshire
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    I have no idea, but I liked it anyway.
     
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  9. GetMeAnIPA

    GetMeAnIPA Pooh-Bah (2,559) Mar 28, 2009 California
    Pooh-Bah

    haha. I appreciate that. The more likes I get the better.

    I appreciate you’re humor btw.
     
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  10. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    Tommy thought he was gonna get made, but.....
     
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  11. GetMeAnIPA

    GetMeAnIPA Pooh-Bah (2,559) Mar 28, 2009 California
    Pooh-Bah

    lol. Too much cross posting got me faded and confused
     
  12. ovaltine

    ovaltine Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,787) Apr 6, 2010 Indiana
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    Do you look at every thread posted here? Not every eyeball looks at every post.

    As for the rest of your post, I'll let you be you.
     
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  13. thebeers

    thebeers Grand Pooh-Bah (5,837) Sep 10, 2014 Pennsylvania
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    Having a “tasting day” hosted within WBAYDN would be a marriage between the most popular thread on the site and most important function of the site (beer reviews).

    Since a lot of BAs don’t participate in multiple threads, and a certain percentage of those who do are apparently annoyed by cross-posting, it would solve multiple (non) problems — meeting WBAYDN’s core criteria of sidling up to the virtual bar with a beer you’re drinking now, while also introducing additional barflies to the joys of reviewing.

    Most importantly, undeserving cross-posters would only get one like per post, not the two or three they currently receive with superfluous threads. :innocent:

     
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  14. FBarber

    FBarber Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,325) Mar 5, 2016 Illinois
    Mod Team BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    Appreciate the response.

    I think the percentage of people who would view it as something foreign hijacking WBAYDN with something else and be annoyed by that would be way bigger than the percentage of people who would be happy to not see a post in a tasting thread and the same picture in WBAYDN.

    Also, there is no way you could mandate WBAYDN only be for the tasting topic (I mean we could, but really no one wants BA to mandate that WBAYDN is a single topic for one weekend - that would be completely antithetical to what WBAYDN is), so you'd have to wade through tons of "off topic" posts that have nothing to do with the tasting in order to actually follow/participate in the tasting.

    Again, likes count for next to nothing in beer karma, so I really don't get the hangup people have with likes.
     
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  15. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    People gotta game.

    I'm old, and give no fucks about being liked, either online or IRL, so I just post cuz I like to participate.

    Usually in my underwear, but, whatever.....
     
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  16. papposilenus

    papposilenus Grand Pooh-Bah (3,232) Jun 21, 2014 New Hampshire
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    Says the man with 114,845 likes...
     
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  17. Harrison8

    Harrison8 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,285) Dec 6, 2015 Missouri
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    So to counter - why even check two threads if they share a similar enough theme that a cross-post is warranted?
     
  18. Harrison8

    Harrison8 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,285) Dec 6, 2015 Missouri
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    That user has also been on here for 7 years more than you. You really trying to compare likes for user credibility?
     
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  19. dcotom

    dcotom Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,637) Aug 4, 2014 Iowa
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    That'd be 114,846 now. :slight_smile: :beers:
     
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  20. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    When ya talk a lot, ya get a lot of responses.

    Mostly they are of the "shut the fuck up asshole" variety, but, wutevz.....

    Plus, it's actually 114,884. Git yer details right!
     
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