Being relatively new around here, I thought I was getting a sense of the traffic - with some of the better-known or historic courses receiving more attention. But one of my recent reviews blew up. Mine was the first for Mt. Lebanon Camp Meeting, and this tiny little 9's review received almost as many upvotes as my review of Iron Hill. So hey: still plenty of surprises here at DGCR...

I have noticed this also. !st reviews of a new course are some of my favorite reviews to do and I typically go into more detail than if I'm reviewing a popular course with a lot of reviews already which I might focus on the highlights and add updated information.

I thought I might have a chance too till I saw how many reviews mndiscg has.

I know I'm not the only one, but i almost always upvote the first review of a course. If it happens to be a TR doing the review, it's almost certainly going to be more helpful to gage that course now over the first 100 reviews on udisc.

exception. a first review of course, by the course designer, doing their first review and dropping a 5.0/4.5 on it. regardless of length and content, the review is a complete throw-away. i simply dont buy anything that the review is describing. If i ever start downvoting again, these will be my first targets. they are more than unhelpful, they con jobs imo.

Yep. I have the only review high school niner, and it got more votes than you'd expect for a little out if the way course.

shameless plug to get myself more votes: https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=37315
my older reviews only have a few votes, in particular Big Cross DGC only has 1 & i was the first to review it

Make that 2!

It appears that HyooMac will be joining the 1000 :thmbup: club today. Congrats Sir.

Congrats, HyooMac! Now instead of working, I'm waiting for his thumb count to update to see if he hits diamond as well.

Should be referred to as Cubic Zirconia...looks like a diamond at first glance, but not quite. :p

Thank you! Special shout out to Olorin, Monocacy, brentjacobs, Tyler J and wellsbranch. One of you put me across the 1000 mark.

I doubt I'll be seeing diamond for a while. Getting all those unique voters takes time.

i agree. i had actually started writing something along those lines for my post to quote you, but i quickly gave up cause i knew i'd murder the spelling of it.

That's some good company, right there.

One of my favorite things to do on DGCR is giving people Yes vote #1000!

Diamond takes awhile to get to, but you're well on your way. At your pace it can't be too far off. 160 reviews in less than 3 years is impressive. Hell, you've reviewed Bryant Lake already and I haven't even played it :D

P.S. That yellow Sapphire is making the bag. :thmbup:

Lol.

There has been a course listed on here in a town about 1/2 hour away for several years. One of our league guys lived there when it popped up on this site so I asked him about it. He said he had no idea what I was talking about, there was no course there. He said there were some baskets by a school, but no course. I didn't worry too much about it. A few months ago a school course popped up on this site in the same town. It's a 1/2 hour or so loop off the Interstate to get to this place and it was starting to look like you could take a break from the highway and bag two courses. I decided to make the trip down to see what was what. Turns out there are baskets in a park and baskets next to a rural school there; neither could actually be called a course because despite there being at least 16 baskets in that town the number of tees and tee signs are both zero. I wrote up the reviews to warn people off; I won't link them since I already got an embarrassing slew of thumbs up on them. I'm like the anti-mndiscg; I went to the crappiest seven-hole course in the middle of absolute nowhere and got 16 thumbs up. Weird.

So, uh, is there another crappy Chicago niner tour with notapro and I in the offing anytime soon? We could perhaps make double diamond the lot of us! :o :D

You gotta love those crappy Chicago niner trips. I may have to do one in late October or early November. There's nothing better than driving 35 minutes from a crap nine to another crappier one 2 miles away. :D

So that would mean double the pay, right?

Gotta plan better than that! Usually we keep the drives between to maybe 15-20 tops. :p

Yes! Nothing time two is double nothing!

Jukeshoe: <---Glad not to get bumped into a higher tax bracket. :|

Pro tip-go during a holiday when a lot of people have the day off. It cuts down on the overall traffic a lot.

That particular trip sounded like a lame course-grab in the idea stages but it practice it was a hoot. Five out of the eight courses had something unique or weird or stupid enough that it was memorable. By the end of the day (and it was Thanksgiving weekend so the day ended at 5) we had thrown 72 holes of golf, experimented with exactly how much of a gap there is between tow ropes, pondered the influence of Georgia O'Keeffe on modern play system design, and argued the stance ruling of what to do if your disc slid under the abandoned railroad car sitting in the middle of the woods for seemingly no reason. Jukeshoe was also either writing song lyrics or composing poetry, so it was a full day. Chicago niners generally are a blur, but I remember most of those eight courses pretty clearly.

LULZ!

Recently saw a similar looking vulva slide and pointed out to my wife. She, uh, wasn't quite as amused.

That was a good day, and I remember more of it that I probably should. :| :|


Castaldo to ABBA's Fernando was where I peaked musically, for sure. :D :D

A lot of those nine holers are on my wish list...

Edit: :|

Next time I get some good time in Chicago, my plan is to finally play The Canyons as well as see how my beloved former home course, the exceptionally bland Volunteer Park, is doing. Best of both worlds.

I remember a lot more of it than I should. I remember more about Four Lakes than I do about Lemon Lake. :eek:

Romeoville is where that day ended; we got there at twilight thinking we wouldn't have enough light to play, but then it was so short we could have played it twice if we wanted to.

Congrats to KenanFlagler on hitting the 1000 thumb-up milestone.
166 reviews over a 6 year period, so hopefully unique 250 isn't too far behind.

Kenan's pofile
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=58190

I've avoided such excursions, at least, to this point. The only Chicago Niner I bagged is Watts Park, and that was simply out of convenience when I was visiting the area for a family trip.

lol, to be fair to us, IIRC Canyons either didn't exist at that point or was in early stages of development.

#2 LULZERS....

Oh, that was waaayyy before the Canyons went in.

Highlands was still pretty much the destination course for me back then; if I wasn't course bagging I'd play Highlands/Trinity Links/West Park. Highlands was actually the course I was going to play on my last trip there, but then we had COVID and I never made a last trip there.

Lombard Commons ended up being the last course I played up there, which...for Chicago disc golf was probably fitting. :\

Lol... those were the exact courses I played on day #1 of my first DG roadie.

I hit West Park (RIP'd), then Highland. Basically tripped into to Juke, Notapro, Mashnut, et al in Highland's parking lot, and they invited me to join them at Trinity. Played all 4 at Lemon Lake the next day.

I'd played a few courses in FL and OH before that, but only because I was already there for some other reason. Never really spent a night away from home specifically for DG prior to that. :)

I've played quite a few Chicago courses but haven't even scratched the surface yet. I kid about them all being crappy. There's some decent to pretty solid ones. But yeah, there are some awful ones. You can pad your courses played total like nowhere else there. Plus you can see pretty much any band you want. That's how most of my course bagging trips are planned actually. :clap:

Minced garlic is the DGCR trusted reviewer's secret sauce.

Which banned member was this?

Not sure if banned member alt account, spam post, or what?

They haven't hit Diamond or 1,000 thumbs (yet), but I noticed that today marks 1 year since Shadrach3's first review on the site.

In 1 year they have accumulated:
108 reviews
968 thumbs ups and counting
Just 3 negative thumbs to keep them honest

What a run. Congrats, Shad.

Check out their profile if you haven't yet:
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=92322

Thanks, Tyler. I am shocked that someone noticed!

I'll add one more stat about the last 365 days, my favorite:
133 new courses played

that's good use of a pandemic right there :clap:

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