Apologies in advance...this is a venting post.
What's the point of taking a half hour or more to put together a ton of information about a course with the goal of helping out of towners get a grasp on the experience of playing a course without "giving away the ending"??? Each time I write a review, I try to put my personal feelings, score and experience aside and enlighten someone who hasn't played a given course with information such as signage, tee area descriptions, amenities, hole design, difficulty level, elevation changes, length of holes, popularity/crowdedness, technical vs. open, natural landscape/vista descriptions, proximity of a hole to the next, originality hole to hole versus a lot of the same, and any other details circumstantial to the course that would be important to know.
Don't mark "unhelpful" to a long, carefully thought out, time consuming review intended to help just because I made honest attempts to be constructively critical in the Cons section. It seems hometown fans of certain courses can't take negative marks. If you truly feel a review was not helpful, fine, but be honest!
Don't mark unhelpful to a review just because there isn't a play by play on every hole. GO PLAY THE COURSE. Reviews should help someone who has to plan around travel and schedule to get to a non-local course to determine if it is worth the stop though a given area. That being said, if a review tells you about most or all of what I mentioned above, it should be helpful or at least skipped over. It irks me that some of these unhelpfuls I've gotten seem ridiculous and straight dishonest.
Am I off base here? I would love a third party take on this, considering I model my review style and include information that other reviews contain that proved helpful to readers. I'm about to have a closer relationship with the "Mark as Played" option since spending time trying to help others clearly isn't half the time...I'm not so much offended as much as I am unwilling to waste time doing reviews anymore...
What's the point of taking a half hour or more to put together a ton of information about a course with the goal of helping out of towners get a grasp on the experience of playing a course without "giving away the ending"??? Each time I write a review, I try to put my personal feelings, score and experience aside and enlighten someone who hasn't played a given course with information such as signage, tee area descriptions, amenities, hole design, difficulty level, elevation changes, length of holes, popularity/crowdedness, technical vs. open, natural landscape/vista descriptions, proximity of a hole to the next, originality hole to hole versus a lot of the same, and any other details circumstantial to the course that would be important to know.
Don't mark "unhelpful" to a long, carefully thought out, time consuming review intended to help just because I made honest attempts to be constructively critical in the Cons section. It seems hometown fans of certain courses can't take negative marks. If you truly feel a review was not helpful, fine, but be honest!
Don't mark unhelpful to a review just because there isn't a play by play on every hole. GO PLAY THE COURSE. Reviews should help someone who has to plan around travel and schedule to get to a non-local course to determine if it is worth the stop though a given area. That being said, if a review tells you about most or all of what I mentioned above, it should be helpful or at least skipped over. It irks me that some of these unhelpfuls I've gotten seem ridiculous and straight dishonest.
Am I off base here? I would love a third party take on this, considering I model my review style and include information that other reviews contain that proved helpful to readers. I'm about to have a closer relationship with the "Mark as Played" option since spending time trying to help others clearly isn't half the time...I'm not so much offended as much as I am unwilling to waste time doing reviews anymore...
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