Potential bug, between 'Got it' and 'Rate it'.

Hmmm, I just lost a beer a few hours ago. I doubt that it had anything to do with what you're talking about. I figure it was a beer that was merged. What are the other ways that a beer review can disappear?

 

Hello and thank you for writing this detailed bug report. The gots and the ratings/reviews are two completely seperate systems which should not be able to affect each other. It is not technically possible to attach text to a got because that system has no way of accepting, processing or storing text. You have either checked the box or you haven’t. It is also not possible to save a review without publishing it. I have followed the steps you provided but I was unable to reproduce this issue. If you could provide additional information or more detailed instructions to reproduce the issue I would be happy to look into it further.

 

@JonnoWillsteed I'm guessing you were questioning me in saying "I wonder what the odds of you writing a review and that beer getting merged into another within a few hours..." - or perhaps I'm wrong.

I should have been clearer. I have a large amount of reviews. I've lost quite a few so I've been numbering them lately, and yesterday when I added a new beer my total number of beers no longer matched up. I checked and everything was fine, I didn't make a mistake, one had been removed.

What that beer might be I have no clue. I've been on here and it's been a lot of years. It may have been something old, it may have been something newer, I have no clue - all I know is that my current numbers don't match up so something was removed.

That might have been my fault, I'm pretty sure my original review of Harp was taken down because of a complaint, or maybe not. We've seen examples of Anniversary beers being lumped together as one when in fact they were different beers each year. We've seen beers move from one brewery to another (under the same ownership, but still (i.e. Mackeson brewed by Boston Beer Co.) And I'm sure that there have been beers that should have remained together but were separated by the mods just due to error (very similar names, etc.)

What happened I don't know, but that's why I asked the question. What are the different ways that reviews can be eliminated. Nothing weird here, just asking.

 

Hmmm. Also not sure it applies to the original post, but I swear I rated (at least) Starr Hill Northern Lights as it was one of my early craft beers. I do not recall if I had a review, but I seem to recall I was pretty high on rDev given a hint of nostalgia.

Here was what I thought might have been the case: that I rated it back when you could provide a single rating for the whole beer - perhaps even during that short period when you could give any rating to the hundredths. I thought maybe those old ratings that no longer conform to the 5-category ratings might have been dropped.

I can't say I recall any totals changing, and perhaps I was mistaken on Northern Lights, but this was still I thought I had based on the "facts" my memory is feeding me.

 

Yeah - I have very little to build a case on. I have also seen some old straight ratings fairly recently (even without reviews), but wasn't sure if it maybe could've been something crazy like a subset such as: no review straight ratings that didn't fall on a quarter point.

No big deal to me, just morbid curiosity to find out if there is an explanation, outside of the explained scenario where there was a merging a beer. On that topic, wouldn't it make sense that someone have had to rate both entries to "lose" a beer? The ratings are "merged" into one, right? One doesn't just lose a beer because the one s/he didn't rate was chosen as the better option to keep, I didn't think.