First Diamond Trusted Reviewer!

[wellsbranch250]

Congrats to Blake whom crossed the 1000 barrier today. :clap:

 

[blake833]

Thanks Mark! you are really on the ball! or disc, rather

 

[chevis]

i just got to bronze. wooo. probably all the further i'll get

 

[dreadlock86]

you might be surprised, the TR medal definitely does draw more eyes. and you begin taking advantage of the people who always sort reviews for TRs only.

congrats

 

[wellsbranch250]

you might be surprised, the TR medal definitely does draw more eyes. and you begin taking advantage of the people who always sort reviews for TRs only.

congrats

i agree with that notion.
the effort from bronze to silver seems like a third of the effort to go from nothing to bronze.

 

[Tyler V]

i agree with that notion.
the effort from bronze to silver seems like a third of the effort to go from nothing to bronze.

Completely agree.

Once you start stringing a couple of solid reviews together, there's a solid group of folks on here that tend to take notice and will provide consistent voting support if you keep your review quality up.

 

[wellsbranch250]

Congrats to Thrembo on hitting the big 1000 thumb-ups. :clap:

not sure yet if he has the uniques, but i'd guess he's close since his reviews stretch over a decade.

There are several worthy diamonds and gold level reviewers in waiting now.


waiting for diamond

Mr Frosty - 1727
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=79171

Pizza God - 1248
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=8530

Blake833 - 1037
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=30468

Thrembo - 1000
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=5625


waiting for gold

Shadrach3 - 691
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=92322

Knobby - 374
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/profile.php?id=63253


Please consider checking these reviewers out if you haven't already

 

[Stardoggy]

i agree with that notion.
the effort from bronze to silver seems like a third of the effort to go from nothing to bronze.

Gold didn't seem that tough either, once you get on a roll.

Diamond, on the other hand...

 

[BogeyNoMore]

It takes about 362 tons per square inch to create a diamond. Some folks aren't able to handle that kind of pressure.

 

[aclay]

Gold didn't seem that tough either, once you get on a roll.

Diamond, on the other hand...

Completely agree. Once I hit Bronze, the time to Silver and then Gold seemed pretty quick. However, I have 505 helpful votes for 96 reviews. That means I probably need to write another 95 reviews to reach 1,000 helpful votes. Even if I do that, getting 250 unique votes would be a challenge. Add in the fact that I tend to review smaller, newer courses with few reviews, and this seems really unlikely. But I feel as if that is my niche and a good way to contribute to the site, so I'll just keep plugging away.

 

[wolfhaley]

Completely agree. Once I hit Bronze, the time to Silver and then Gold seemed pretty quick. However, I have 505 helpful votes for 96 reviews. That means I probably need to write another 95 reviews to reach 1,000 helpful votes. Even if I do that, getting 250 unique votes would be a challenge. Add in the fact that I tend to review smaller, newer courses with few reviews, and this seems really unlikely. But I feel as if that is my niche and a good way to contribute to the site, so I'll just keep plugging away.

If you write 95 more reviews, you'll probably get 95 more thumbs up from this guy. :thmbup:

I definitely agree on the reviewing of smaller, lesser known courses aspect. That was my main reason for reviewing after my handful of (terrible) first few reviews of local courses. I actually love writing reviews of courses that have little to no reviews. I get no thumbs up, but if I can help even a single person find the first tee I feel like I accomplished something. The Diamond is cool. And man did I try to get it. But now that I did I feel like I'm going to resort back to what I feel I do best. Review the out of the way, lesser played courses. AND I just figured out how to add pictures not too long ago on my phone lol.

 

[HyooMac]

Reviewing lesser known courses has always seemed to me to have a higher degree of responsibility. Obviously, my numerical rating has more influence. But my review might be the only thing somebody reads, other than uDisc comments that largely limit themselves to one sentence including the word "awesome!"

 

[scooby snack]

Reviewing lesser known courses has always seemed to me to have a higher degree of responsibility. Obviously, my numerical rating has more influence. But my review might be the only thing somebody reads, other than uDisc comments that largely limit themselves to one sentence including the word "awesome!"

"Awesome" is the ultimate review. It conveys so much, no other words are needed.

 

[Pevio]

Reviewing lesser known courses has always seemed to me to have a higher degree of responsibility. Obviously, my numerical rating has more influence. But my review might be the only thing somebody reads, other than uDisc comments that largely limit themselves to one sentence including the word "awesome!"

I decided the be the guinea pig on this course: https://www.dgcoursereview.com/reviews.php?id=11512&mode=rev. It was terrible, but because of my review, no one has to have the same experience.

 

[HyooMac]

I decided the be the guinea pig on this course: https://www.dgcoursereview.com/reviews.php?id=11512&mode=rev. It was terrible, but because of my review, no one has to have the same experience.

That was a really good review, though (and a perfect headline). It's hard to be critical without bashing, and I think you walked that line. You took time to explain (no big difference to play in either direction, no tee markings, safety issues, etc.).

The ones I have the most difficult with are the ones that are just "baskets in a field", especially located at a school. I REALLY want to praise and encourage the growth of disc golf in school recreation programs (disc golf gym class!!!), but some of these "layouts" are frustrating - and I have to keep myself from yelling "This isn't disc golf!"

Your Frontier Trail review did a good job.

 

[wolfhaley]

I decided the be the guinea pig on this course: https://www.dgcoursereview.com/reviews.php?id=11512&mode=rev. It was terrible, but because of my review, no one has to have the same experience.

I've been a guinea pig on 40 school courses. That I've reviewed at least. I had to have played at least that many that I didn't review too. Just wait until you start running out of new, nearby courses like me

 

[thrembo]

 

[mndiscg]

I have the lowest thumbs per review of all diamond reviewers. I played lots of very rural courses throughout the upper midwest. Now I only get to play a handful of new courses per year, kids and jobs take up all the time!

 

[BogeyNoMore]

Mndiscg truly took the route less traveled to earn his diamond, playing all sorts of out of the way courses that don't get talked up a lot.

Yeoman's work!

 

[ElementZ]

I have the lowest thumbs per review of all diamond reviewers. I played lots of very rural courses throughout the upper midwest. Now I only get to play a handful of new courses per year, kids and jobs take up all the time!

I get the feeling that I'll be competing with on on that metric once I finally get to diamond.