Sly Fox -- Why the duplicate listings?

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  1. DaveAnderson

    DaveAnderson Initiate (0) Jan 11, 2011 Minnesota

    #1 DaveAnderson, Mar 29, 2013
  2. TriageStat

    TriageStat Initiate (0) Sep 20, 2012 Pennsylvania

    Sly Fox has a brewhouse and restaurant in Phoenixville, PA along with a brewery and a small tasting room in Pottstown, PA. No idea why there are separate listings for those beers. Route 113 IPA is canned and draft only.
     
    #2 TriageStat, Mar 29, 2013
  3. DaveAnderson

    DaveAnderson Initiate (0) Jan 11, 2011 Minnesota

    I get that there should be different place listings. But I expected something similar to what I see for Rogue or Cascade -- one with beer listings, the rest without. Or like Maui, where the brewery lists the packaged beers, and the brewpub all of the rest. In either case, we don't have beers repeating, like Sly Fox does.
     
    #3 DaveAnderson, Mar 29, 2013
  4. MasterSki

    MasterSki Grand Pooh-Bah (4,848) Dec 25, 2006 Canada (ON)
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    This is why we can't have nice things.

    What happens is that people can't be bothered to search for the beer and instead add it again under the second location. Eventually it will be converted to a 'master' listing in the style of Granite City, but it's a time-consuming process to merge the two for precisely for the reasons you mentioned: someone has to crosscheck the slight variances in name spelling, ABV, availability, style, etc. and then we also have to warn dumb users who cross-posted reviews under multiple listings of the same beer that one of them is going to get overwritten.

    You don't know how many people send change requests asking me to unretire the redundant Maui beers listed under the brewpub because they are unable to find the brewery listings, or complain that they can't review beers listed under defunct chain brewpub locations.

    The bottom line is that lazy and ignorant users create problems faster than Todd and Jason can correct them. We're taking steps to allow other editors to be able to share the burden, but we're also playing it cautious so that no one's reviews are inadvertently deleted.
     
    #4 MasterSki, Mar 29, 2013
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  5. jRocco2021

    jRocco2021 Savant (1,083) Mar 13, 2010 Wisconsin

    I should ask you the same question.
     
    #5 jRocco2021, Mar 29, 2013
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  6. Centennial

    Centennial Initiate (0) Nov 9, 2009 Vermont


    I fixed that for you.
     
    #6 Centennial, Apr 19, 2013
  7. joeebbs

    joeebbs Initiate (0) Apr 29, 2009 Pennsylvania


    There still is a brewpub in Phoenixville and brewery in Pottstown. What exactly are you trying to fix?
     
    #7 joeebbs, Jun 13, 2013
  8. DaveAnderson

    DaveAnderson Initiate (0) Jan 11, 2011 Minnesota

    Follow the links on the original post, and explain the rationale for duplicates. Would you find it proper to have separate listings for Budweiser, depending on which location brewed it?
     
    #8 DaveAnderson, Jun 13, 2013
  9. bkbergen

    bkbergen Zealot (639) Jan 5, 2009 Pennsylvania
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    I think he may have been thinking Royersford location.
     
    #9 bkbergen, Jun 13, 2013
  10. RhyminBelmont

    RhyminBelmont Initiate (0) May 14, 2013 Illinois

    Aaaaand now we have duplicate threads to match...
     
    #10 RhyminBelmont, Jun 13, 2013
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  11. joeebbs

    joeebbs Initiate (0) Apr 29, 2009 Pennsylvania


    I wasn't replying to you I was replying to Centennial.

    I agree with you that there shouldn't be duplicate entries for Sly Fox but it sounds like it's the users putting it in that messes it up. Sounds like it's a hard thing to combine although a service like Untappd manages to merge duplicate entries but there system may be a lot easier than this one.
     
    #11 joeebbs, Jun 13, 2013
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