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What is Get Beta?
Get Beta is a site
offering free climbing information (Beta) to anyone
interested. It was developed to give climbers the ability
to share their knowledge of climbing with others through
various channels located in the site. The site is always
changing (hopefully for the better) and a lot of the
changes are made based on user feedback. So, if you
want to see something on the site you are encouraged
to let us know, chances are sooner or later it will
happen. Check back often to see what's new.
Why GetBeta?
We feel the site can be a positive influence on climbing
and the climbing community and are constantly striving
to do just that. Our hope is that the site can be utilized
by every breed of climber and even those that don't
climb as a means to glean useful information about climbing
around the world.
The Guide.
The Guide is an organized listing of climbing information
that has been contributed by our members. The structure
of the Guide is simple and intuitive, making it a breeze
to find information without ever having to use your
keyboard. The structure of the Guide is as follows.....
Countries > State/Region/Province
> Locations > Areas > Sections (optional) >
Routes > Beta
This simple but robust
structure creates a framework that can encompass virtually
any type of information you would need relating to climbing.
Whether that be Planning a trip to a remote climbing
location, preparing your rack for a free ascent of some
big wall, to figuring out the crux of a route you have
been projecting, The Guide can handle it all. That said,
the guide will always only be as good as its poorest
contribution. Since Get Beta does not enforce a certain
format for contributions, we leave a lot of room for
less than useful stuff to be added. We can only hope
that another member will step up to the plate and amend
the information or that the original member updates
their contribution with more meaningful content.
Who should contribute to The Guide?
A contributor is someone that has a first hand account
of the item they are contributing. A good contributor
should posses a couple of qualities. First they should
be able to fill in every field listed in a contribution
form (even ones that aren't mandatory) or be willing
to find the information requested in the form. Second
they should think like someone who knows absolutely
nothing about the item they are contributing and wants
to find out everything there is to know about it. Many
times a contributor (I'm guilty of it as well) will
lapse into a "everyone knows this stuff already"
frame of mind and will submit an uninformative contribution
without any substance. Its best if you can think about
how you would like the guide to read, when looking for
information, before making a contribution.
Bottom line is, we want the guide and the site as a
whole, to be useful. Therefore, if you only possess
the bare minimum of information regarding a climbing
location, area, route, or other then we ask that either
A) you do more research to make a better contribution
or B) let someone else with more knowledge of
that item submit it. Currently, we probably aren't going
to deny any submissions but really would ask that you
give it your all. If you have to do a little research
on the item you'll be a better person for it and the
climbing community will be better off because of it.
Honestly, we would rather have 10 accurate listings
of obscure climbing locations then 10,000 half - assed
ones.
What's with the fish?
Its a betta
fish, get it. If a little play on words isn't your idea of funny
then try this,
if that doesn't work then there's no pleasin ya.
More about stuff will be coming soon........
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