Pay2Play poll

[mattc]

I hope the future is a solid mix of both. I like to see your typical in the park 9 hole beginner friendly courses to stay free. This will help draw in new players particularly the younger crowd who don't necessarily have the $ to P2P regularly. Then top end courses for the hardcore which are P2P which are DG exclusive with better maintained and designed courses for intermediate + players.

^^^ this is how it should be.

 

[HardstyleBeast]

If it's not free to install a course, why should it be free to play?

I play at a public parks which I pay taxes for. I can understand paying a little money if it was a private course that someone built.

 

[reposado]

I play at a public parks which I pay taxes for. I can understand paying a little money if it was a private course that someone built.

I think this is an appropriate answer. Its not free to build basketball courts, playgrounds, bike paths, etc either. If there is no charge for those, there should be no charge for disc golf

 

[Mad Scientist]

I'd still play, but I would hope there would be added benefits - less chuckers, better upkeep, stuff like that.

 

[TrustYourRubber]

You might think, 'Well, we can do so much good for disc golf.' No, that's wrong, because disc golf is for poor kids who can't afford ball golf or other activities. Kids can still skateboard.

 

[TrustYourRubber]

It's also a very unscientific poll design, because you're fragmenting one position 'bad idea' so that another position gets elevated 'good idea.'

This, sort of happened, with one of the infinitediscs.com poll questions, which company had the biggest impact on disc golf this year? Trilogy got a lot of votes, so did Latitude 64, Dynamic, and Westside, but the way they reported it is that each of those answers was treated separately. Being unscientific about a poll question only leads to muddled assertions about what is the TRUTH, which should be the goal of science and polling.

 

[DavidSauls]

You mean, more unscientific than most polls on this site?

 

[scarpfish]

No, that's wrong, because disc golf is for poor kids who can't afford ball golf or other activities.

Poor kids? I don't see that many kids period unless an adult brought them there.

And all this time, I thought it was for white college students.

 

[Mr. Butlertron]

The pay course would have to be really great to even think about it. Morley Field is a classic example of crappy course that charges money. They only get away with it because there isn't much in the area.

 

[natedg1976]

Poor kids? I don't see that many kids period unless an adult brought them there.

And all this time, I thought it was for white college students.

Thanks so much for the link to that thread. I have not laughed that hard for quite a while. Some really good stuff in there.

 

[Mabuku1]

It's also a very unscientific poll design, because you're fragmenting one position 'bad idea' so that another position gets elevated 'good idea.'

This, sort of happened, with one of the infinitediscs.com poll questions, which company had the biggest impact on disc golf this year? Trilogy got a lot of votes, so did Latitude 64, Dynamic, and Westside, but the way they reported it is that each of those answers was treated separately. Being unscientific about a poll question only leads to muddled assertions about what is the TRUTH, which should be the goal of science and polling.

I'm sorry I wasn't scientific enough for your dgcr brain. But I don't believe I was conducting a scientific research study. I was merely giving a scenario to my fellow players, and I think I gave a lot of options. Even threw in a totally wild option for those that like to get irate about stuff. And a couple people chose it.

What would you like to have seen from this poll that would have made you not put it down? Nothing. Okay, then this poll was not meant for you.