Hey - good afternoon Flash. This seems like an interesting topic but I am recovering from surgery and bombed on pills. I think I get what you are taking about but want to be sure. Could you give an example and/or hypothetical? Thx. T.

quote: Originally posted by thomassova4 Hey - good afternoon Flash. This seems like an interesting topic but I am recovering from surgery and bombed on pills. I think I get what you are taking about but want to be sure. Could you give an example and/or hypothetical? Thx. T.

I'm not bombed on pills and was hoping the same thing..lol.

I think I understand what he's saying, and it is simply that some beerpalers are adding beers without having them in hand. They are getting the info from other beer sites, taking the info at face value, and entering directly here (probably just for the caps). If that's what he's saying, I can see where he has a problem with it and honestly, we should too.

I'm not going to give specific beer examples because that will point to a specific person. I will give you general examples. Adding dashes or parenthesis in order to add descriptions to a beer name when those descriptions are not needed to uniquely identify the beer and are obviously not part of the name as written on the beer or brewer's website. Adding "Anniversary" or "Special Edition" etc. when it's not written that way on the beer. Adding a style description to the beer name when it's not shown on the beer and not necessary if it the beer has a unique name. Especially when that's inconsistent with the other beers entered for that brewery. Adding "Barrel Aged" in the name when the brewer doesn't user it in the name. Acronyms. The other site might mistakenly spell something out (or use an abbreviation when it shouldn't) so that it doesn't match the way the brewery spells it on the beer and their website. Typos. I've caught dozens of simple typos that strangely were incorrectly spelled on other sites. This tends to happen a lot in addresses and descriptions, too. I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting. It's not usually a big deal, but sometimes it's annoying when I'm approving a beer picture and what I see in the pic is nothing like what BeerPal calls it LOL. There may also be some cases where over the years the brewery has tweaked the name, or used different exact spellings, although that is usually for older listings.

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quote: quote: Originally posted by Suds McDuff quote: quote: quote: Originally posted by rainman I think I understand what he's saying, and it is simply that some beerpalers are adding beers without having them in hand. They are getting the info from other beer sites, taking the info at face value, and entering directly here (probably just for the caps). If that's what he's saying, I can see where he has a problem with it and honestly, we should too. my vote is maybe adding a beer without looking or researching it independently and just adding it according to RB or BA... i've done it before, but i always try and visit the brewers homepage (but you'd be surprised at the lack of info on new beers on some brewers websites) maybe some some add beers like you said, but i don't think a BP'er would do that just to get worthless caps.. well, i'd hope not...

I know how much a pain in the butt it is to add new entries when you have a huge pile of reviews to add. I hit a personal record of reviews last month, and nearly all of them were obscure local ones. I spent hours and hours verifying stuff. I usually check out other sites as a comparison, and it is tempting to copy them in order to save time. The problem is that I know a lot of guys can't afford to spend hours a week with this tedious work, or they review on RB first and slowly move them over here. By that time they probably have no idea what the proper name is, and researching each one would probably mean they'd give up on putting their ratings here. Just try to do what you can. I also urge everyone who notices an error to click that update link and let us know. Sometimes I see goofy mistakes or missing descriptions on common beers that have been reviewed dozens of times. We only get a few updates submitted every week.