Factual site additions

I get how it can be annoying to find incorrect info on the site, but I’m not sure how we define “meaningful.” Like a lot of users, I come on BA to interact, read posts, check reviews and generally have fun. I think it’s good perspective not to take any of this too seriously.

 

I appreciate what you folks do, hope I was never a pain in your backside.

 

While I'm new to BA and can't comment on most of your post, I want to relate an experience I had this week that highlights the issue above. I would guess that you are correct, most times people just don't check. But in some cases it is the site design that causes the issue.

Earlier this week I was looking at the website for a brewery that I've been hoping to get some beer from (Lost Towns Brewing in central MA, https://ltbrew.com/) and figured I would check BA to see what others had experienced. I searched for it, didn't find it, and then submitted a new place request. Only after I submitted did I realize that I had searched for lost town and not lost towns. A search for lost towns found the brewery in the BA database.

There are two issues here:

1. The search algorithm is opaque. I didn't think the search would be so stringent without denoting the search term in quotes. A search for lost town not returning lost towns? Come on.
2. More importantly, there is no way to track (or retract) requests. I could have easily deleted the place addition request, or added a note saying to disregard it because I messed up and it is already in the database, but I couldn't do so. Instead it was gone into the BA mod queue and likely added to the annoyance that slander describes.

So this is just to defend slightly those who are trying to contribute in a conscientious way, but simply don't know all of the particulars of how BA works in certain circumstances and can inadvertently add to the sense of sloppy submissions.

 

I see that all the time with some of the breweries near me…someone out of State adds a new release, has never had the beer and likely has never set foot in the brewery…

 

So it's not just me? I usually only add beers I've had. I get unreasonably annoyed when I try to add a new beer from a local brewery that doesn't distribute only to find out some dude from Ohio added six beers from the brewery without rating or reviewing any of them. I also tried to add a new brewery this weekend. I thought it wasn't in the database because there were no beers listed for it. I found later it was already entered but no beers were added, rated, or reviewed. I'm usually not easily annoyed, but some things....

 

So you're annoyed when they add beers and you're annoyed when they don't? I just don't get why this matters to anyone. When I'm reviewing a beer, I'm glad when I don't have to add it.

 

This exactly. I understand wanting info put in correctly but otherwise I don’t get some of the points being made here. I love the comment I got above that as long as I was not inputting info incorrectly the other users “could tolerate this to a degree” if I don’t review the beer right away. Haha get over yourselves. Jesus! Thank you for tolerating it! If only to a degree. Whew. I was worried there.

 

I think everyone in this thread, me included, should relax and have a beer tonight.

 

Welcome to BA, comes with a stick for your ass for many on here apparently

Have a beer. We all gonna die anyhow

Cheers

 

Let's add another twist to the whole subject: Sometimes not even the brewery can get the facts of their own beer right!!!
I have been to taprooms where the beer on the big (handwritten) board behind the bar, the menu on the table and the listing on their website were ALL DIFFERENT!
And if you ask, nobody seems to know what's "correct". They actually don't care. I bet that most BAs take that beer listing more serious than the brewer that makes it. It is becoming increasingly difficult to have the listing "right". Breweries rename their beer, just like that. Of course you make a new entry. Just to find out later that it is the same beer you entered two years ago. This is no excuse for sloppy or careless listings, please don't misunderstand!
I came to the conclusion that you just have to let it go sometimes. I care more about a healthy blood pressure than a beer listing.

Prost!

 

No. In both cases they appeared to add something to the database without being there. They added a place without ever going and beers without ever trying. If you recall, I said my annoyance was unreasonable. Why do I care if someone added it without ever trying it? I have no idea. Why did you care enough about my post to respond? Life's a mystery sometimes.

 

Agree. Perhaps I'm spoiled by Google, but inexact searching is today's norm. A search for "lost town" should certainly return "lost towns" since "lost town" is a subset of the query. I run into that frequently. A more robust search engine might save a bunch of work for the mods.

LOL. I've had a couple "oh, shit" moments with beer and/or place additions, and there's no way to retract the incorrect post. Maybe a ten minute grace period before locking in a new entry?

 

lol, touche!

 

Perhaps getting rid of the "Beer Karma" system would discourage this sort of thing from happening?
It doesn't serve a purpose, aside from bragging rights - but why brag about Internet points if they have no meaning, or are indicators of a critic's knowledge of beer?
Internet fame and social media as a whole is a mistake and plague on society that leads to major problems like the one OP is describing, where factual inaccuracies litter a once good community.
Just a thought.