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    Quote Originally Posted by trainman View Post
    Are you on commission ob?
    if only....

    a lively forum hopefully keeps people coming to the site and maybe encourages them to contribute reviews. I agree with your comments that we need more reviews, some areas are very lightly covered, and that forum contributors are likely to be trustworthy reviewers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldboots View Post
    So that leaves:
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    He's already here in disguise isn't he.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldboots View Post
    So that leaves:
    Have I missed anyone else sensible? The next goal is 50 active users.

    Of course some may be here already but hiding
    There was poor old Grailhunter who never made it behind closed doors! Also Silk Tork - a beer expert if ever there was one. A few that disappeared from the initial meltdown a few months ago - Sussex Red, Alph River & Kake (we a few of the fairer sex to keep things in order).

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    Quote Originally Posted by RogerB View Post
    He's already here in disguise isn't he.
    whoops, sorry lad. spookily enough I'm just looking at a story in this weeks Private Eye called "Dementia: same old story"

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldboots View Post
    whoops, sorry lad. spookily enough I'm just looking at a story in this weeks Private Eye called "Dementia: same old story"
    There's an article in this weeks Private Eye called Dementia: same old story. You should try reading it.

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    The Your Favourite thread has gone a little more off track than usual.

    As it is a sticky thread and given the nature of the chat I am going to merge all the BITE posts into this thread to try and make things a little clearer.

    Sorry about the inevitable initial confusion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by runningdog View Post
    'winchester club' is another I'd like to see..........
    Just PM'd him to let him know where we are.
    'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.

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    Ok, just done my dictator bit and moved everything around, sorry about that, was rather hoping my last post would become the first post in this thread, oh well.

    Firstly, really glad to have you all here and no problem with you chatting about any of this on the forum. I kind of feel I should say I am not encouraging PMs and wholesale defections (neither am I discouraging it), and to also echo that it is sad times on the BITE forum, the BITE site has an amazing heritage with the forum emerging through the revival a few years back. I am however clearly glad to have our own thriving forum. Moving forward I hope we become known as Pubs Galore and can make the site something even more special and not just a BITE 2. Beyond that I think it is probably wrong for me to say much about BITE, just to reiterate, fantastically glad to have you all here.

    Ed - thanks for the pointer on the cards, will look at that later, that will save me a lot of work, I hate trying to find starting points for these things.

    Trainman - We do desperately need reviews, but it is one of these things were reviews generate reviews, we have noticed an upturn in membership and reviews since we started seeing the influx of reviews from BITE refugees. Also with a decent core community who want to be involved it means that the reviews can be kept to a standard, I need to rewrite the reviewing engine in the coming months to do a lot of things that have been discussed on the forums, and also to make it easier to report bad reviews.

    As I am rewriting all the code I am also adding the potential for roles, so that we can delegate more of our work to the community, and hopefully get everyone more involved with the site. The first demonstration of this was giving Edmon control over the beer festivals he adds, a small step (an easy one for us to code) but hopefully the first of a trend.

    Potentially I am thinking of allowing anonymous reviews in the rewrite of the code, whereby non-members could review pubs, if we did this though they would need to be reviewed by an admin or trusted member before they became visible. In general I am not a fan of this, but it could chunk up the site with some reviews and we could switch it off when we were satisfied.

    IP-blocking. We do have the facility, most simply we just chuck the IP address into the servers firewall and that IP-address is going nowhere on our server. We have used against idiots who are harassing us or DJs who tried to leave an advert on every pub review in a town. It has worked when we have done it. But (you knew it was coming) we are also aware it is not a magic bullet, many users have access to more than 1 access point and some Internet services (AOL & a few flavours of BT) use some really weird IP allocation service where each cluster of calls comes from a different IP address, I have no idea how they thread that back together at the end. If anyone wants some more in depth or an explanation on any of the IP stuff let me know, it is probably a bit boring for most though.

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    Had a PM from John Bonser - I reckon he will be over shortly! Conrad - you'd better build an extension and swap the bar stools for some extra large sofas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Conrad View Post
    Firstly, really glad to have you all here and no problem with you chatting about any of this on the forum.
    Thanks for those remarks, Conrad, it lets us know where we stand. I'll say again, this time for the last time, I have no intention of deserting BitE. If I can manage two local pubs then I can manage two pub forums. By the way, I call this one PuG, seems to go with BitE somehow...........
    Pubs are a hobby, real ale is a passion. Oh, and like me dogs, fear no evil..........

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