BeerAdvocate.com Becomes the Largest Beer Community in the World

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His brother told him.

Phil

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Phil

Take a random look at any state's members under "Community>User Stats" on the left side of the home page. Go to "last" and scroll up. Almost half of the "members" sign up on one date and never return after that. Many more last only a week to a month.

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CurtMudgeon

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Yeah Right

"Yeah Right" wrote on 17 Mar 2007:

That's mostly the users to blame. If the Goat Brothers decree that this or that beer is XTREEEEME!!!1!, they usually score it highly regardless of what a wreck it really is. That said, there are plenty of FFG hop bombs in existence.

The "community", if you can call it that, is a shell of its former self since the Goats started deleting posts and threads left and right (more than ever before) that criticized them and the Bride of Todd, while deleting the accounts of most of the more intelligent and beer-savvy members for writing "beermail" that dared complain about the pathetic BoT.

Pretty much all that's left is a bunch of sycophants and beer tickers. The site could have been so much more.

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Dave Witzel

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Yeah Right

"Take the site back"? Not particularly something I care to do. I don't see the point in calling anything produced from that site news". Ignore them and, considering their track record with executing their grandiose plans, they're bound to disappear from the radar sooner rather than later.

Witzel

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Dave Witzel

Dave Witzel wrote: ...

Your just jealos that their in your local paper giggy!

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sleurB kciN

I just have to say that I haven't found this to be true at all. From reading the magazine and the website, it seems to me that they seem to appreciate a fairly wide variety of beer. As someone who has only relatively recently begun to appreciate how many great beers there are and who is just now getting serious about learning about beer, I can say that their website is a great help. While trying a new (to me) beer, I can check the site and see what others have said about it, the correct glassware to use with it, and a brief description of that particular type of beer.

I know that there are other places to learn about beer, and I'll make use of those. But I don't see any reason for all the negativity toward Beer Advocate; they've been a big help to me, and I thank them for that.

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Alan

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