That's BS David...so a 0 for Woodshed is not egregious enough ? Really ?
The management is more interested in numbers, than accuracy. Wise up.
Drawing a line on that is a lot harder than it sounds. That review was his normal "I can't believe y'all think course like this are good" review that he did for every wooded course until you get to the car chase. The car chase is weird.
Is the car chase the reason he gave it a 0? It might have been a factor, but given his history I would have expected a 1 or a 1.5 from him for that course. If he docked it a point because he perceived that there was this car chase confrontation with the owner, is that really a big deal?
Take away the car chase and say he gave it a 1. It's still an outlier at a 1, but it's his opinion. We asked for his opinion and he gave it. We didn't say "we want your opinion so long as it's in line with everyone else's opinion."
I'm not unsympathetic to the course owner perspective. If I had a course that would be in the top 25 if you delete one review, I totally would want that review gone if I was trying to attract visits to my course. We can't really let private owners dictate which reviews stand and which don't, though. If we did that all the private courses would be rated 5's.
So it's damned if you do/damned if you don't. In some people's eyes we delegitimize the process by letting a 0 for The Woodshed stand because we all agree it's not a 0, but in some people's eyes we delegitimize the process by deleting a 0 for The Woodshed because we are enforcing groupthink and getting rid of reviews that stray too far from the conventional thinking. Either way, once that 0 for The Woodshed posted people were going to be unhappy.
I think we all get that if we built a disc golf course with our bare hands on our property and were kind enough to allow people to play it, it would be personally insulting for somebody to walk up to us after playing it and blurt out "That sucked!" in our face. When somebody rips a course in a review on this site and it lives there for years and years, it's like that guy getting to yell "That sucked!" in our face every day for the rest of time. That could be infuriating if you can't let it go, and some people just don't have the kind of personality to shrug that stuff off. We don't get to tell people whether a bad review of their course should bother them any more than we get to tell people they should enjoy wooded courses. I get why it's a hot-button issue with private owners and why it comes up all the time, and I wish there was a better answer. There just isn't a better answer. Just the slippery slope of a censored groupthink site.