A little over a month ago, I was told that links to my site had been banned at Beer Advocate. I sent a couple emails to Todd hoping for clarification though they may have been lost. The ‘Banned for Posting Abuse’ message seems misleading as I haven’t started any threads there linking to my site. What I did find is 80 references to Beernews over at BA over the past several months. “My friends,” that is awesome. I have definitely waited too long in thanking Beer Advocate and everyone else that reads and supports my work by sharing it with others (and allowing links to it). So thank you. And if you’re reading, Todd, I would love to see the site once again OK’ed at BA!
This is just one of the reasons I started the board. And just to be clear, I am not asking for any readers to pull themselves away from another board. I am merely asking you all to add another board onto your daily routine 🙂 From the get-go, I’ve used the site to experiment with giving you a new perspective on craft beer and the BN Board is a continuation of that.
So what’s new with this board? One more post coming later…
Wow, maybe someday I can be a victim of corporate censorship too. BA must be getting nervous about their hemmoraging traffic. Congrats!
When I was last posting there they had banned wikipedia links. At the point where you start banning a site like wikipedia for potential inaccuracies, you might as well ban all outgoing links, shut down the forums and put your site on a cd that you could mail to users.
I noticed they had banned links to your site as well. The only reason I could come up with is that they didn’t want to lose their ability to get press releases and didn’t want to support competition (as they have their own beer news sections).
I have yet to start reading and posting to your boards, mainly because it is yet another board for me to read, and I have plenty of those already. I like to keep all my beer stuff to one place, and that, right now, is BA.
That kind of sucks.. anytime anyone posts a beer description or review, what do we use? Beer Advocate! I link to them soooo much on my blog or elsewhere for style/beer reviews. Sucks to think someday I’ll be banned for myself or others posting links to my blog. I can see abuse being dealt with.. but it doesn’t sound like that’s the case.
BA – time for a server upgrade!!! :p
You are running the most amazing beer site on the web, Beer Advocate banning you or not!
The Alstroms are control freaks, so when an element is out of their control they get panicky. It is this same level of over-control that has brought down the quality of BA over the last few years. Things were great where using content drove the direction of the site.
You’re surprised about this? The Alstroms are paranoid. Beer Advocate is turning into a “What’s in your fridge?” and “Latest Haul”, type of forum without any real substance or information. You’ve cornered the beernews market and your support will continue to grow! Cheers!
this talkback section has been locked down. relax and have a beer. buy a hoodie.
Bottom line:
The Alstroms, including Todd’s sociopath of a wife, are bad for craft beer. Their insecurity runs so deeply, that fear and censor any controversy or perceived challenges to their dellusional spot in beer culture. Their removal from all things craft beer would do a great service to the overall community. I await their failure
They banned references to you? That is the lamest thing I’ve ever heard. Sheesh.
Your simply broke the rules … nothing more, nothing less. We delete posts that link to blog sites … this is a blog nothing more, nothing less. BA is not here as a promotional tool for other beer sites rather to focus on the beer industry, culture and community. We already cover the news.
We actually don’t want extra traffic now due to our server being nearly maxed out … no paranoia here. LOL!!!
Todd claims “We delete posts that link to blog sites”
Do a search for the term blogs in the BA forums. You’ll find hundreds of posts pimping and linking to blogs.
Besides, blogs are part of the community claims to support. I long ago started removing all refs to BA from my site simply because of the bad attitude the “Brothers” have that I feel does more harm to the community than good. They are VERY paranoid.
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/12537822/babytes-ep01-candace-vs-clownshoes
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