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drank Christmas Tea - Loose by Twinings
1500 tasting notes

I love it how people change the name of a tea to “duplicate”, so that NO ONE CAN FIND IT. And, they don’t realize that it’s actually a different tea – different ingredients, different production, everything – but because it has the same name from the same company, they assume it’s up to them to change a tea’s name to DUPLICATE. Because that’s so helpful, especially to the folks who maintain the database. Don’t you realize, it actually CHANGES the name in the database, and the URL? Sigh.

Instead, I strongly suggest to anyone who thinks there’s a duplicate (this one is NOT – it’s a Special Edition Loose Leaf that’s only available loose in a tin, it is NOT the same as the bagged tea in the brown box), is to get both URLs and email steepster. Let them know. Don’t go changing names of teas so that we have thousands of teas called Duplicate.

/rant over

MissB

Sigh. Of course, this was my 1300th tasting note.

Indigobloom

Happy lucky 13000th note! :D

Indigobloom

Oops too many zeros

Roswell Strange

Congrats on 1300! People fucking with the tea names/titles drives me absolutely crazy too.

Kittenna

^^ These comments get me right now, as someone juuuust did that to a tea I recently wrote a note on. RAAARGGHHH.

tea-sipper

I’m not one who changes the names to ‘duplicate’ but I was wondering what I should be doing when I see duplicates? Maybe there should be a forum thread where anyone can post the links of multiple teas so they can be fixed whenever Jason gets around to it?

MissB

@tea-sipper – I was told four years ago to email the same address you do for additions of ingredients, and give them the two links so someone can eventually get around to it.

I still wish Steepster had volunteer curators to help with this sort of thing.

tea-sipper

Ah okay, do you have the e-mail for the additions of ingredients? I wish they had volunteer helpers for that too. I guess I can just compile some links of duplicates in an e-mail draft and just send it when I notice a few duplicates.

MissB

I don’t off the top of my head, but if you go to any tea info page, there’s a link above the ingredients (or maybe below) to email someone to add them. I’m not sure the email is monitored, but there ya go!

tea-sipper

Okay, thanks for the info!

MissB

It’s below, when you edit a tea entry: [email protected]

tea-sipper

Got it. Sorry about taking over your tasting note about this. I blame Kittenna. :D

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MissB

Sigh. Of course, this was my 1300th tasting note.

Indigobloom

Happy lucky 13000th note! :D

Indigobloom

Oops too many zeros

Roswell Strange

Congrats on 1300! People fucking with the tea names/titles drives me absolutely crazy too.

Kittenna

^^ These comments get me right now, as someone juuuust did that to a tea I recently wrote a note on. RAAARGGHHH.

tea-sipper

I’m not one who changes the names to ‘duplicate’ but I was wondering what I should be doing when I see duplicates? Maybe there should be a forum thread where anyone can post the links of multiple teas so they can be fixed whenever Jason gets around to it?

MissB

@tea-sipper – I was told four years ago to email the same address you do for additions of ingredients, and give them the two links so someone can eventually get around to it.

I still wish Steepster had volunteer curators to help with this sort of thing.

tea-sipper

Ah okay, do you have the e-mail for the additions of ingredients? I wish they had volunteer helpers for that too. I guess I can just compile some links of duplicates in an e-mail draft and just send it when I notice a few duplicates.

MissB

I don’t off the top of my head, but if you go to any tea info page, there’s a link above the ingredients (or maybe below) to email someone to add them. I’m not sure the email is monitored, but there ya go!

tea-sipper

Okay, thanks for the info!

MissB

It’s below, when you edit a tea entry: [email protected]

tea-sipper

Got it. Sorry about taking over your tasting note about this. I blame Kittenna. :D

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