To be honest, I loved it. Monty Python level focus here. I feel like he could have landed the plane better, but hey, not everyone is the Gilded Sage…
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Perhaps a new rating system on how many molecules of stabbed-Caesar the wine is?
No more 100-point scale.
fred
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The real puzzler would be Grape
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God I hate this sort of behavior. If you’re gonna score-bomb a wine almost everyone else loves, you have the right (despite what some no-life nutjobs think who will try to dox and report you for scoring their favorite wine 89 points WITH a note – but I digress), but please also have the decency to explain yourself (no text and they turned off comments).
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When I run into a note like that - deflated score, no explanation - I usually click on the taster’s profile. Most of the time, that note is explained by their other notes. This time is no exception. Portz, right?
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Some people just use TN for their own benefit. It would be nice if they would just use the private note field instead.
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Yep, those people NEVER allow comments…which is a mjor CT red-flag on its own, ha!
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To me, private notes seem buried. You have to do an advanced search, no score.
I wonder why CT doesn’t have an ignore feature that would filter out TNs and scores from people you put on it.
This thread mystifies me. Do you think posters on CT owe you something? Obviously you do, but it puzzles me as to why that would be. If a note serves the poster’s purpose–even if it is just a score–why does it have to serve yours?
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Pick up dry cleaning tomorrow. Just wanted to make a quick note so I didn’t forget.
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I guess one thought is that there is, or should be, some minimal sense of social responsibility around reviewing products online. You don’t have to be perfect or agree with me or anyone in particular, but you shouldn’t use the forum to be vapid and/or serve some different agenda of yours.
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I love the 1-star amazon reviews because the delivery was late, or the product was damaged in shipment, etc. These CT reviews are the equivalent. Easy enough to ignore, but still head scratching.
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It does.
Drill into the user’s profile and right there is an option to ignore the user (classic)/block the user (current interface). Well, I don’t think it filters out their scores but you no longer see the notes/scores, so there’s that.
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That being said, I think the 1990 La Chapelles may have been heat damaged. I was told a lot of Rhônes 1990 arrived over Memorial Day weekend during a heatwave, and the difference between the US imports, and those which I’ve brought in privately from the UK is massive.
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For a long time, I saw this from Neal’s perspective, and still do to some degree. I did not understand the annoyance of others who somehow felt I had an obligation to create “content” for their benefit. It had an unsavory whiff of entitlement. Especially since I was paying for it, I felt I shouldn’t be the product. I saw CT as my tool to use as I saw fit.
Over time, I’ve come to accept and appreciate the social media aspects of CT and the user expectations that go with that. There’s no doubt Eric designed CT to be a social media platform. I can still use it the way I want. I feel no guilt about not using numerical scores and often posting a one-word rating that’s meaningful to me even though it doesn’t contribute to the CT score average.
I enjoy most of the examples of goofy notes here. I don’t understand the snark because apparently there is a way to block the users who use CT in some undesirable way:
Thanks Chris, I never noticed that in all these years. I guess because no one never bothered me enough to check.
To those who are bothered, I say that’s just the nature of social media. The larger the group, the greater the number of people who will behave in some undesirable way. It’s easier and a lot less frustrating to accept it or ignore them than to try to change their behavior.
But don’t stop posting the funny TNs.
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This.
I’ve had WATCHESLOVER on “Ignore” for years because they consistently inflate ratings in my opinion. If you look at their profile page they say they taste 20-40 wines a day for their work and only makes notes on wines they find “exceptional”.
Fine. But there are enough 99s-100s among their ratings that they’re kind of meaningless to me.
I think the aggregate score CT shows still takes ratings by ignored users into account, because I sometimes see a score listed but no person or rating in Community Tasting Notes.
Thread drift alert: As all right-thinking Burgundy geeks know, the TRUE score range is not 0-100, its 89-93 
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A reasonable point, I suppose. But I don’t see this as anything like an Amazon review or the like, since no one is recording their experience with a vacuum cleaner purchased on Amazon for their own future reference. Its only purpose is to inform others. On CT, a score or a one word prompt (“cherry”) might well be enough to jog the taster’s memory as to a particular wine for that purpose.
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Yeah…I refer to those and those who feel they need to police the system as the CT nazis (no soup for you!).
A number of years ago, I opened over 100 bottles at an event to diminish the cellar, and had a note to that effect as a placeholder so I could go back in and update TNs as I had the time. One (or many, who knows) of the CT nazis bitched that those weren’t proper tasting notes and so the mods deleted everything. That pissed me off quite a bit, not only because of the other users who feel themselves important enough to moderate the site, but also because I’d have thought the mods would take a look first. I was a fairly early adopter, I log in almost daily, all of my TNs are full TNs, and at the time my TNs numbered in the 1000s (now over 16k TNs). It would have been obvious to anyone that the comments were placeholders as it did not fit any of my other notes/events.
I’m still slightly bitter about it (not obvious at all, is it?!). I pay for CT, I should be able to use it in any manner I see fit, CT nazis be damned. Ultimately, I enter TNs for my benefit and my benefit alone- if they happen to help someone, so be it, but that is not the intent.
As to the ignore feature, yes, it’s very helpful. I think I have ignored over 300 users now, for reasons that range from their notes/writing style is just bizarre, or something as simple as they don’t understand the difference between a palette and their palate. 
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