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Originally Posted by Pizza God (Post 3723538)

lol, 1504 thumbs up with 379 reviews and I still can't get those last 5 unique to get to Diamond status.

I know my reviews are not always very good, some of my early ones just suck.

I use to get bashed for writing longer reviews, then I would get bashed for writing simple reviews.

now I just write what I feel like writing. I don't care what anyone else thinks, I write what I would want to read in a review.

Although, I don't often read many reviews of most courses. I will sometimes read what others have posted about courses I have played. But since I try to play ever single course in an area, even if the reviews are bad and it has a .5 rating, I am still going to attempt to play it.

That is what a course bagger does.

If negatives count as uniques, just write a 5 star, 2 sentence review for a crappy 9er. That should pull in a few of the people who only give negative feedback. ;)

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Originally Posted by Countchunkula (Post 3723552)

If negatives count as uniques, just write a 5 star, 2 sentence review for a crappy 9er. That should pull in a few of the people who only give negative feedback. ;)

Inconceivable !!!!

Over the past few days I went through the list in the thread below and checked out a review from each name on the list. I picked courses I have played, courses with "extreme" ratings, and even one that didn't yet have a vote on it.

After that I just wanted to say, in the words of Hancock... "Good job. Good job."

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Originally Posted by wellsbranch250 (Post 3721969)

Kind of surprising that Valk hasn’t reviewed one course in 2021 yet. I have a feeling he’s planning an epic 100 course road trip over the summer.

Update on Diamond miners needing unique votes
Mr Frosty - 341 reviews – 1831 thumbs-ups
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=79171

Pizza God – 374 reviews – 1425 thumbs-ups
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=8530

HyooMac – 167 reviews – 1122 thumbs-ups
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=8530

Blake883 – 119 reviews – 1071 thumbs-ups
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=30468

Thrembo – 159 reviews – 1043 thumb-ups
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=5625

KenanFlagler01 – 169 reviews – 1040 thumbs-ups
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=58190

Shadrach3 – 110 reviews – 1003 thumb-ups
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=92322

Getting close to 1000
ElementZ – 187 reviews – 974 thumb-ups
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=5792

BigA1724 – 141 reviews – 962 thumb-ups
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=35845

Cerealman – 110 reviews – 943 thumb-ups
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=2905

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Originally Posted by Cerealman (Post 3723188)

I track mine too. I believe I'm at 209 unique voters.

Of course, I'm not quite to 1,000 thumbs, so I need to write a few more reviews.

However, I am leaving the Chattanooga area at the end of June and moving up to the Tri-Cities area in NE Tennessee for a new job (yay!), so that will be an opportunity for new courses, new reviews ... and hopefully, a few more unique voters. :)

That's a great area. I'm up there once or twice a year to visit my folks. Can't wait to see your reviews!

and good luck on the job of course

Mr Frosty's situation is a total mystery to me. He has over 300 reviews written. He's played basically everywhere east of the Mississippi. He's played Flip City, Maple Hill, Moraine State Park, Rollin Ridge, Fairfield Park...places that should get a lot of unique votes. All of the usual reasons we come up with as to why you don't get the unique voters needed for Diamond do not apply to him. Yet there he sits with 1,876 thumbs up and he's still sitting at gold. :\

It's because his Highland Road Park review has a typo in the title... gotta tighten those loose ends up!

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Originally Posted by Three Putt (Post 3723635)

FWIW - I passed over his reviews for many years because of his tendency to write one, very long, run-on paragraph per section. I found them pretty much unreadable. He has started to break them into sections more recently, and they are easier to navigate.

That being said, I have read many of his reviews and given more than a couple of thumbs up to them. But that would be my guess as to why he has fewer unique voters than would be expected.

according to a past post noting a member's conversation with Timg, (paraphrasing) negative uniques don't count.

as noted by BogeyNoMore, and others, getting uniques is a matter of time. reviews need to sit there awhile for casual site users to see them. mr frosty and pizza god have done most of their reviews in the last couple of years. imo, they are both worthy of diamond for the vast quanity of knowledge they have provided to us course baggers.

one final note: i incorrectly linked HyooMac's profile on my diamond in waiting post. below is the correct link.
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=83526

When digging though 382 reviews I noticed that most of my "negatives" were this one guy who apparently does not like my review style and those one off negative votes, probably from people who's home course I just trashed.

Most of my negative votes are from 10 years ago when I wrote more very short comments about a course. (also before you could see who gave you negative votes)