Another [futile] plea for Cellartracker wine handle sanity!

[Jeff_Cassetta]

+1 I hate the fake handles…

I’m easy…cassetta…

[dsimmons]

I agree with Jay using names would help. But since inertia will likely prevent that from happening, one of the things I do to sort out the notes is to designate as a fan any poster who either has 1000 bottles in their cellar or has posted 1000 tasting notes. When you do this their reviews are starred. Not perfect but I find it a useful screen for me.

[Eric_Sch]

I personally don’t care for people to know exactly who I am from my notes. Honestly I don’t care for real name requirements on forums at all, particularly when they can be used to tie me to very expensive hobbies and personal posessions in a way I can’t control. The internet never forgets.

Then again none of you would care for my notes anyway.

[Charlie_Carnes]

@Howard Cooper

but since I don’t score wines with points, is there any real reason to post notes there.

Some of the very best on either site do not use points.

[Ken_V]

If you know me and can’t recognize me from my CT handle, I don’t want you to.

[Keith_Levenberg]

@J a y H a c k

I do this every few years, mostly to no avail. I’m begging you. Please change your Cellartracker handles so we can tell who you are! Why? Because otherwise your notes are useless to everyone else. Let’s take two positive examples. Keith Levenberg and Loren Sonkin, both of whom use their real names. Two very different palates, but I can calibrate to them and if I see a note from one of them, there is a good chance that I will know how I will respond to the wine. I once even used a review by Keith while at a restaurant to select a wine from the wine list. We were at a Greek restaurant, the wine list was all Greek to me, so I pulled out my iPad and started looking up the wines on CT. Lots of useless drivel by unknown people who drink Yellowtail, but then I saw Keith’s review. I knew his palate, understood what he meant, decided we would like the wine, and I chose it. I was rewarded with a nice white wine from Greece with a grape, let alone a producer, that I had never even heard of.

Glad to be of service. Sigalas?

[J_a_y_H_a_c_k]

@David Cooper

For years I have felt that I have been fooling people by not having the period after my middle initial.

Well, if it’s a B, then DBCooper would be fun.

[Matt_Latuchie]

@Alan Factor

@CJ Beazley

@Brian Tuite

I don’t know but he posts an awful lot of notes.

I guess I can unfollow BestJetsFan now huh.

Ah, his secret identity just revealed to me in a pm, it’s a guy named Al Czervik.

I don’t think that is correct.

lol

[JonF]

New to both but basically the same “name” both places. Everyone come friend me, i’m new and lonely.

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[JeromeHan]

Wasn’t there a thread with a list of members’ CT handles?

[Frank_Murray_III]

Hell, I am just going to send a comment to the people I follow yet cannot figure out who is behind their handle, and ask straight away who they are. I sent 2 already today so maybe I will get an answer.

I feel like I am waiting for XMAS morning to arrive, and it’s XMAS eve.

[J_a_y_H_a_c_k]

@JeromeHan

Wasn’t there a thread with a list of members’ CT handles?

Yes. You try searching for it at a restaurant while looking at a wine menu and CT to cross check silly handles against real names. OR, as I just did, I got an email from Quilceda Creek about availability of their Columbia Valley Red Wine. I was curious. I looked at CT. 31 notes. No names I recognized. It is impractical to cross check 31 notes against a list of CT handles in an old Wineberserkers thread. A first world problem, I admit, but I fail to understand why people insist on anonymous handles. It’s as bad as people who pay a premium for a vanity license plate. Yeah, I know, a bunch of you probably do that too. IMNSHO, a complete waste.

[Ken_V]

@Peter Kleban

@c fu

You can favorite or friend a user. That way their notes have priority.

Is there a way to make their notes float to the top?

Surprised no one answered this. There is a pull-down menu below “Community Tasting Notes” and this is one of the options: