Maybe it says a lot about the golfers who love Flip? Who love the spirit of the game.
While I agree with you in regards to why some people may love Flip (and granted I havent been to either Flip or Blueberry), many people who play disc golf don't get this above mentioned "spirit" of the game. Some play it as something to do while they are stoned. Some people play it for exercise alone. Some play it for the ultimate challenge. Some play it for the competetion amongst friends. Some play it because they want to get out of the house and away from a spouse or children.
My point is we can't know why anyone person plays this game unless we ask or they tell us. While I play it for multiple reasons like, I like walking in the woods, I like the challenge of tough courses, I like to admire natural surrounding, I love animal watching around dawn on the course, I love being the first person to a course on any given day, I love the spirit of competition, I love playing different courses and admiring and learning more about good course design.
A peson like me can appreciate Flip and BBH equally and thus give them both 5's (or whatever I decide they are worth) but for different reasons. I know most of you out there arent golf fans, but this argument is akin to discussing that Augusta National is the best because it is the most beautiful pristine courses in world, and comparing it to St. Andrews the oldest course in the worl, where golf originated. Two totally different courses manicured completely differently, but I would give my left one to play either course some day. Some people would be snobs and not understand the draw of St. Andrews, and then some who are more of the purists would appreciate the history of St. Andrews but not appreciate the manicured fairways and azaleas and the lush turf of Augusta.
A Milwaukee example for you Tom would be that I have rated Valley View equally to Estabrook and Miniwaukan. Valley view is a mess, it is wet most of the time, weeds are tall and unkept. But I love it for the pure enjoyment of trying to shoot double digits underpar. Some people think it is a trash course, but I see value in it. Take Estabrook, where the first 8 holes are kindof boring (except 1 or 2 IMO) the back 9 has some better and longer holes, but the course is in pretty good shape. The turf is always mowed. Or Miniwaukan, its a fairly open course with smattering of mature oak trees. It is longer than both other courses (I believe) but it generally in good shape. I like them all for different reasons. And if you were to read my short dissertation about how I RATE courses in my profile, I RATE them based on the likelihood that I would return if all things were equal. So if every course in the world was 5 minutes from me they are all on the same field. I REVIEW them based upon their scenery, the infrastructure, the design, the challenge, the beginner friendliness, etc etc etc.
This wasn't geared just to you Tom, but I knew you could relate to my points here. Some people just need to realize not everyone values the same things. It would seem clear that if this new Drive by reviewer were real and consistant he would continue to rate course like BBH, Idlewild, maple hill, high. He would rate nicely maintained less challenging courses like Flip lower. Time will tell if he will still be with us. The issue in the whole thing is not if he truly feels what he says, but if he did it only to drop flip and raise bbh. Thats just lame!
I don't have any fancy algorithms to move reviews around yet and the ones I'm planning wouldn't really address situations like this anyway.
