New Brewpub review site

John & Linda Rokosz ( snipped-for-privacy@nemontel.net) wrote: : Please visit our site of critical reviews and submit your own reports for : publication on our site. :

:

Just what we need -- yet another one.

What's wrong with ratebeer.com and beeradvocate.com? What does your site have that these two don't? I'm not going to click the link until you come back and explain.

Why not? Just because those other ones were around previously does that make them somehow better? Does it make another web site automatically worse or unnecessary?

Joel ( snipped-for-privacy@see.headers) wrote: : Bill Benzel wrote: : >John & Linda Rokosz ( snipped-for-privacy@nemontel.net) wrote: : >: Please visit our site of critical reviews and submit your own reports for : >: publication on our site. : >:

: : >Just what we need -- yet another one. : : >What's wrong with ratebeer.com and beeradvocate.com? What does your site : >have that these two don't? I'm not going to click the link until you come : >back and explain. : : Why not? Just because those other ones were around previously : does that make them somehow better? Does it make another web site : automatically worse or unnecessary?

No, just redundant and (IMO and for lack of a better word) divisive. Folks only have so much time to spend doing this -- I'd prefer to have fewer places to go and more people in those places.

You call two sites redundant!? Yow. Good thing you're not a professional brewer, or we'd only have a couple different types of beer.

Did we need the others that are already there?

Devil's advocate: what's good about them? Because they're there first, they're better? What was wrong with Pubcrawler.com? What's to say that something else might not come along that's better. I mean, what was wrong with SNPA and Anchor Liberty? What did we need new beers for?

That'll show 'em.

-STeve

Divisive? This isn't a religion or a political party. That makes as much sense to me as saying a new good beer pub opening up in town is divisive.

And if most people feel that way, the marketplace will work that out.

-Steve

Well, "record" is short for something like "sound recording," right? It should be the catch-all term for all recorded audio media.

Joel ( snipped-for-privacy@see.headers) wrote: : Bill Benzel wrote: : >Joel ( snipped-for-privacy@see.headers) wrote: : >: Bill Benzel wrote: : >: >John & Linda Rokosz ( snipped-for-privacy@nemontel.net) wrote: : >: >: Please visit our site of critical reviews and submit your own reports for : >: >: publication on our site. : >: >:

: >: : >: >Just what we need -- yet another one. : >: : >: >What's wrong with ratebeer.com and beeradvocate.com? What does your site : >: >have that these two don't? I'm not going to click the link until you come : >: >back and explain. : >: : >: Why not? Just because those other ones were around previously : >: does that make them somehow better? Does it make another web site : >: automatically worse or unnecessary? : >

: >No, just redundant and (IMO and for lack of a better word) divisive. : >Folks only have so much time to spend doing this -- I'd prefer to have : >fewer places to go and more people in those places. : : You call two sites redundant!? Yow. Good thing you're not : a professional brewer, or we'd only have a couple different : types of beer.

No I just didn't mention several others such as the Burgundian Babble Belt and numerous Yahoo groups -- I'm sorry if you think I'm off base here but I really liked the old days of online tastings and virtual community. Now all I have is a long list of shortcuts to attempt to keep up with.

I'm sorry but I just don't see a need for yet another beer rating site.

Chacon a son gout!

Sorry, bad choice of words and I can't think of a better one. What I mean id that I find myself dividing my time between a lot of these various web sites, adjusting to the different styles of presentation, trying to remember the threads I'm interested in, where I've posted etc.

What I should have said is:

I need another beer related web site like .

This is my personal preference and I certainly did not intend to start a flame war or heated debate.

Sorry if I offended anyone. That was not my intention.

Fair enough.

Oh, I don't think anyone was offended or viewed it as a flame. Just a ripe opportunity for some spirited discussion. We don't get a lot of that around here anymore. Maybe because of all those web sites. (Yes, that's said tongue-in-cheek.)

-Steve

Oh, I don't think that's fair to most of the reviews I've seen on BeerAdvocate. To be honest, the reviews I saw on your website read more like "Mystery Muncher" restaurant reviews, a format that makes my skin crawl...but that's just me. But I've never seen any reviews on BA, ratebeer, or Pubcrawler that looked like a "menu blurb." I think we should all be a bit more fair here.

Well, have fun with it.

Sure sounds like Pubcrawler.com to me....................

No, to be honest, I'll give it one edge over Pubcrawler: sounds like it's moderated, which is the only thing Pubcrawler is missing, in my estimation.