I gave him an upvote, because I can feel his frustration in his words. Now I want to play the course.
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I gave him an upvote, because I can feel his frustration in his words. Now I want to play the course.
Well, to be fair, there are a few of us with keys, but a couple of guys move them without changing the signage markers.
I actually posted to the local group the fact that I've been asking everybody who lives nearby (I'm a 20 minute drive away), for the last four or five years, to adopt a hole. So far, we have another 60 year old and one or two younger guys who ever even help out with the maintenance (the park won't).
In the long run, I didn't downvote this review, just shared it locally to see if we can't motivate some volunteers.
That reviewer needs to let me take him to Cedar Sentinels to get a true appreciation for hicks. I consider the Williamsburg crew city boys.
Maybe we should start a new thread "I am a darn HICK".
Thread titled: "I am a HICK, and I am THEY."
How many times has he played a "terrible" course to know THEY keep moving the baskets around?
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That layout is totally unsafe for that location. Thanks for being the voice of reason. I had a similar encounter last month in Florida playing A.L. Kinsaul Park. I couldn't believe how unsafe the layout was for several holes which played down the narrow strip of easement beside the roadway.
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Nothing burns me more than irresponsibly designed courses.
Hey wait a second! That's my course and I'm not a h...Oh :/
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I ran across this review today, these are the pros, which takes up the majority of the review. This is, in my mind, a classic exampe of a review that basically tells you almost nothing about the course. "Almost" because you know you'll be able to navigate it easily and that it has alternate tee pads.
"This course has so many pros where do you start. Two different concrete pads per hole the pro pads are really for pros. You need every shot in your bag. It's difficult but fair really bad throws your punished but really good throws you can get pars. This has some of the best signage I've ever seen it is very easy to navigate from hold a hole every basket has tape and there are signs in between every hole telling you where to go a lot of money went in to this. His design is awesome he used all of the land to its greatest ability. The design alone is worth coming and checking out. The trees the water even the wildlife is awesome out here."
"This course has so many pros where do you start. Two different concrete pads per hole the pro pads are really for pros. You need every shot in your bag. It's difficult but fair really bad throws your punished but really good throws you can get pars. This has some of the best signage I've ever seen it is very easy to navigate from hold a hole every basket has tape and there are signs in between every hole telling you where to go a lot of money went in to this. His design is awesome he used all of the land to its greatest ability. The design alone is worth coming and checking out. The trees the water even the wildlife is awesome out here."
Yeah, not a lot of specifics, but plenty of enthusiasm.
I do get the idea that it's challenging, from the long tees, and has good variety, and the aesthetics are good (last sentence).
Sidebar that "every shot in your bag" is a bit overused. It's often a euphemism for "not the same shot, over and over".
I do get the idea that it's challenging, from the long tees, and has good variety, and the aesthetics are good (last sentence).
Sidebar that "every shot in your bag" is a bit overused. It's often a euphemism for "not the same shot, over and over".
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Doof's criticism is why I no longer review courses. I cannot imagine having an issue with that review.
The only problem I have with that review is the speech-to-text induced lack of punctuation and proofreading.
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So you reviewed one course in 2013, and got 7 of 7 helpful votes, but you stopped reviewing "courses" because of my criticism, in 2022, of a review that could be about any course in the world?
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Yes, well, except there's no way it could be about LSUA.
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Yeah the question at the bottom of the review is "Did you find this review helpful?" not "Is this a well-written review?". I agree that the review is not particularly helpful but it's the kind of review that I just ignore (no vote) because I know people will take it to mean that I think they wrote a review poorly (rather than a poor/useless review). What I am looking for in a review is enough information to help me decide whether it is worth making a trip there to play it. That is subjective (obviously) as I don't care about things such as trash cans, benches, bag hooks, and a thriving weekly pickup sessions. I do care whether the hole lengths are all too short or too long, if the hole designs are interesting, if I might have to worry about flooding, if the neighborhood is sketchy (e.g. there has been vandalism to cars parked there), if the locals are friendly when the course is crowded, if there is much danger of disc loss, if the course is mowed/maintained, etc.
Yeah the question at the bottom of the review is "Did you find this review helpful?" not "Is this a well-written review?". I agree that the review is not particularly helpful but it's the kind of review that I just ignore (no vote) because I know people will take it to mean that I think they wrote a review poorly (rather than a poor/useless review). What I am looking for in a review is enough information to help me decide whether it is worth making a trip there to play it. That is subjective (obviously) as I don't care about things such as trash cans, benches, bag hooks, and a thriving weekly pickup sessions. I do care whether the hole lengths are all too short or too long, if the hole designs are interesting, if I might have to worry about flooding, if the neighborhood is sketchy (e.g. there has been vandalism to cars parked there), if the locals are friendly when the course is crowded, if there is much danger of disc loss, if the course is mowed/maintained, etc.
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Well that's interesting. My review of this course in UDisc has been deleted. (Hidden)
I can still pull it up on UDisc, this is exactly what I wrote
"dangerous and is trying to be something it shouldn't be. Half of the holes throw over roads including hole 1 where the road is the fairway"
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I agree with your post, and not just the part quoted above. The reason that I pointed out the review in question was, in part because of the lack of detail in the opinions posted. I quoted from your post to use examples.
Distance. This is definitely something that I consider to be helpful. I also don't want to play a course that is "too short" or "too long." But, if someone puts in a revew simply that the course is "too long" or "too short" that tells me nothing useful/helpful about the course. Without some detail, it's just the meaningless characterization of the course by someone who might think that any hole over 250' is too long or that any hole under 500' is too short.
Trees. "Open" and "tight" are, maybe, a little less problematic than "too long" or "too short" but only just. No one should need a tree count, but just a little more description of fairway width or lack of obstacles lets you know what the reviewer means.
Notice how you had to give an example to explain what you meant by "sketchy"? It's that kind of detail that I'm looking for in a review. I know that people know what they mean, but many times they do a very poor job of explaing it in a way that serves as information that others can actually use. Saying that a course is very open, really long but fair, takes every shot in your bag and has incredibly, super interesting holes doesn't really convey much about a course.
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I'm with you on all these points. I'm noticing with my own reviews that I'm editing out a lot of my opinions, and sticking to the facts. I'm trying to find the shortest length of review that is still also found to be valuable to the reader.
I'm sort of writing with the idea of "based on my experience, here's what you can expect." Not so much focusing on me, but on what you might see/feel/experience given the specifics of the course.
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But you gave it five discs, right, in keeping with the ancient adage "When on Udisc, do as the Udiscers do..."?
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If I ever review on UDisc, I'll be handing out 3.5 reviews, with an footnote, "More accurate review: 2.0, but adjusted for UDisc inflation."
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