Specifically this one
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Maybe his name is Don Ehere. But I doubt it.
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It was Gill with a number behind it IIRC
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Perhaps it’s a clever word game that non-native speakers like me don’t understand 
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I think it’s a total shame that new people get upset and run off like this! In actuality if the database wasn’t so fouled up in the first place things such as this would not happen! I have read all the talk about it getting updated and fixed and until it does this is bound to happen again!
It is easier to add an incorrect flavoring to your stash than it is to wade through all the crap to find the right one! Even if you read right off the bottle in your hand it may not be in the database that way!
Wade through menthols or cotton candies or sweeteners or any of the shisha’s or the other thousands of choices one has when entering flavors to your stash! “pick the one with the most recipes” I say BS, fix the database! Sorry for the rant! Just my 2 cents!
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Was this the same fella?
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The only way to really fix the DB is to only allow certain flavor names from a pre-approved list of names by the admins. Any recipe that’s not properly formatted should not be allowed to be saved until it’s correctly formatted… and that’ll be headache for newer users. As long as you can type and save improperly formatted recipes, then you will have issues like we are currently addressing.
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i think it sucks as well that the OP didnt stick around , but thats on them … I dont believe anything wrong was said to make anyone leave .
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Bam, that’s it. Problem with that is, of course, an enormous burden on the staff, as well as sorting out how the thousands of existing recipes will be affected by a standardization. The answer would have been simple if this was done at first, but it’s completely understandable why the database was handed over to the community from the start. First off, was there a standard protocol in place from day one, and secondly, did anyone actually think this place would grow to host thousands of users and recipes? Likely not.
As it is now, staff and volunteers are actually working to try to make this less complicated, but until a full new system is implemented, this is what we have. And we understand that.
The real issue with this thread was that the user took umbrage with the tone of a reply he received, and decided to leave the community rather than just learn the intent and potentially help the database with talents he may have possessed. That’s a shame, but it isn’t the community’s nor the database’s fault.
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yes it was thos person , you can see they got a warm welcoming and a couple atta boys , but when something didnt go the way they thought it should they left smdh …
anyway Roll tide Roll
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Yep. Same guy I welcomed to the forum, just prior to him getting thin skin.
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There are standardized names in the DB already. 90% of the time the correct name is already in the drop down list, but a lot of mixers just don’t search for it. If the flavor is in your stash than it’s usually near the top of drop down list.
When flavor names are merged then most recipes are auto updated at the time of the merge… as I have witnessed this with some of my own recipes. If only approved flavor names were in the drop down menu (eliminating the BS names on the list) then half the battle is won.
If there is no flavor name on the drop down list for whatever flavor you want to add, then it should be approved by an admin for addition to the DB.
Merging flavors don’t mean squat as long as mixers can type in any flavor name they want. That’s where the problem starts and that’s why it should end. You can see by the OP’s attitude that you can’t tell others shit if they don’t want the help.
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Data here should be saved for nostalgia sake.
Moving forward the best way to do it would be to create a premium portion of the site for advanced or senior users. Creating its own data base as it develops.
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It would be helpful, I think anyway, if there was a drop down of concentrate manufacturers rather than keystroke matching for flavors when you highlight or type in a blank flavor text box. More work to build that, I know. But at least you would be guided through a proper funnel until you hit the actual flavor you are trying to add to your stash or use in a recipe. Eliminates the need for the proper spelling, parenthesis, and other subtleties we need to learn to add a flavor properly. And then an option for if you can’t find it, which can generate a simple little form submitted to the staff for review.
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Your question looked unanswered, lil bump bud, looks as tho (Pure Flavours) is being used by most already w/ a few "nice try but no cigar"s
At least a thread where someone can ask how to properly list a flavor. Topic name must be easy to find “How to properly list this new flavor” , hopefully tracked by moderators to at least give a thumbs up to suggestions offered.
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There is a way to do it @woftam showed me before with some of the vape train flavours and i think i added the right way or maby the admin fixed it up
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Let me preface my comment by saying that i am very grateful for all the work that has and continues to be done to make this site the amazing entity that it is. I am not a coder nor do i have any technical abilities so i am unsure of how difficult an undertaking it may be to apply my idea, which is… The best and most efficient method in my mind would be to have flavorings sorted by brand and the ability of the user to simply scroll down ticking a box if they have said flavor(s) I could tick nearly every box as im up around 1000 flavorings and the current method is far to ardous a task to play catch up now…
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When I first joined, I chose the closest one on the drop down with the most recipes beside it but there’s a glitch. Some Inawera flavors, when you chose the proper name from the drop down, the system injects some symbols into the name. You have to go in and change it manually. Newer folks wouldn’t know to do this.
Finding a way to reduce inaccurate names is going to be tricky without limiting the freedom that most of us have come to value.
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It almost making it a 2 step search… currently it sorts by flavors you have 1st and those flavors are highlighted, which actually is easier for me. If the misnamed flavors were eliminated then searching would become much easier and a lot less likely to choose the wrongly formatted flavor.
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As long as people can type in any name that comes mind when building recipes, you pretty much can bet that dupes will never end. One of the main problems is there is no rules or guide (especially for noobs) to properly enter flavors into the db. So it should be mandatory to choose from a approved list of flavors to even save or post a mix publicly.
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