Kill the "what did you drink tonight" and "save the 'what did you drink tonight'" threads.

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Brad Kane

Brad Kane
Seriously, time for them to die. Depositing most of the tns into one master thread is not what this board has been about. It makes searching for notes difficult and there are a whole lotta wines and/or events that deserve their own thread and the discussions they may spawn that are currently being curtailed due to notes getting lost in such a large post.

My two cents.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane: Kill the "what did you drink tonight" and "save the 'what did you drink tonight'" threads.Seriously, time for them to die. Depositing most of the tns into one master thread is not what this board has been about. It makes searching for notes difficult and there are a whole lotta wines and/or events that deserve their own thread and the discussions they may spawn that are currently being curtailed due to notes getting lost in such a large post.
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Brad, I could not agree more...and I have wondered why this approach has persisted here.

As you say, this approach depresses dialogue about interesting wines.

. . . . . Pete
 
Personally, I've enjoyed the thread, a venue for the odd, individual note; but the board isn't set up technically for such a long thread.

I've observed that some other boards start up a generic 'what are you drinking' thread weekly, without suffering any egregious harm.
 
I am non-interventionist by nature (ha), so vote against this initiative (or outitiative). The fact that these threads flourished shows that they (ful)fill a "basic human need." The search engine works just as well if the note is standalone or in the middle of other stuff. What slows things down is a ton of photographs when the ethos here is generally pro-imagination.
 
what i drink and save me from what i drink are the least of my concerns here at the moment
 
Let's be honest. A lot of it is laziness. It's much easier to just jot the name of some wine(s) down and say little to nothing about it or them than it is to create a separate post where you generally put a little more thought into things.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
I am non-interventionist by nature (ha), so vote against this initiative (or outitiative). The fact that these threads flourished shows that they (ful)fill a "basic human need." The search engine works just as well if the note is standalone or in the middle of other stuff. What slows things down is a ton of photographs when the ethos here is generally pro-imagination.
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Given the relative paucity of posts that contain photographs and the fact that it's really only a small hardcore group of folks that vocally dislike pictures in posts, I'd say that comment really is without merit and a red herring, Oswaldo.

Let's face it, the search engine here sucks and the popularity of those posts can be traced to laziness and inertia.
 
I'll be contrarian on this one. The threads are clumsy in its length. And the tasting notes tend to be hit and run. But there are many more of them than there would be without the threads. And, really, I find hit and run tasting notes many times clearer and more to the point.

If people want the threads killed, though, that will happen easily enough. Just stop posting, and they will go away.
 
To each his owne, but I'll say hooray for the relative paucity of posts that contain photographs, hooray for the small hardcore group of folks that dislike pictures in posts, hooray for laziness and inertia, and hooray for not linking to cellartracker. I like this place just the way it was and is, even though there is now a void where there used to be a warm, beating heart.

The search engine indeed sucks, but won't be improved by a switch to standalone postings.
 
The length of Kay's thread, and the associated one, are evidence that a lot of the folks here find them congenial. Calling them lazy and yourself honest doesn't make a persuasive case.

Personally, I'd say that this board is reasonably distinguished by the idiosyncrasies and tight-knit interaction of its members, without resorting to contrivance. So a weekly thread of casual notes would be dandy.
 
We opened a '98 Pinon Vouvray Cuvée Tradition the other night to mark our 15th wedding anniversary (for some reason there isn't any '99 in the cave). It was a delight. Started out all honey, then flowery, then herbaceous and finally mineral. Not too sweet, very refreshing. Drink and hold.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
To each his owne, but I'll say hooray for the relative paucity of posts that contain photographs, hooray for the small hardcore group of folks that dislike pictures in posts, hooray for laziness and inertia, and hooray for not linking to cellartracker. I like this place just the way it was and is, even though there is now a void where there used to be a warm, beating heart.

The search engine indeed sucks, but won't be improved by a switch to standalone postings.
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but, i enjoyed your loire valley pics and the art gallery pics. truly.
 
As Elvis would and will perpetually say: "Thank yuh....thank yuh vury much!"

There's a time for everything and a time for things to die a (belatedly) natural death.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
We opened a '98 Pinon Vouvray Cuvée Tradition the other night to mark our 15th wedding anniversary
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I'm surprised you went with the Tradition. I know some folks went long with Moelleux in '98...
 
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