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Haha. Its mainly that JR Stengele isnt on DGCR very much anymore, so that new DTRs have not been added in years. And that goes in tandem with the decline in use of DGCR in general, along with the corresponding decline in the use of social groups hereSuddenly, I don't feel so elite. :\
I want to make a cubic zirconia group when I hit 1,000 for the real cool kids. With Shadrach3 as our captain.
the cubic zirconia club looks poised to add 2 more to its ranks. It appears you are only one or two reviews away, and DiscinOhio is only 9 votes away as well. i think that would make 14 members?
HyooMac, aclay, Shadrach3, Blake883, KenanFlagler01, knobby325, pmay5, Ryal, Cerealman, DFah, lee76007, Surge5
the cubic zirconia club looks poised to add 2 more to its ranks. It appears you are only one or two reviews away, and DiscinOhio is only 9 votes away as well. i think that would make 14 members?
HyooMac, aclay, Shadrach3, Blake883, KenanFlagler01, knobby325, pmay5, Ryal, Cerealman, DFah, lee76007, Surge5
I don't have any skin in the game other than wanting to encourage good reviewers to keep on churning out quality reviews. Having so many people stuck in pre-diamond limbo doesn't seem to be helping achieve that goal.
Maybe we need uranium* status to entice those inactive diamond reviewers off the sidelines?
i would certainly have a good laugh if i saw that. perhaps the medal icon could tarnish over time?
In all seriousness however, I appreciate their contributions.
Someone reviewing 50 courses in 2008 had to branch out, whereas today someone could achieve that in one big metro.
I wonder if this list makes a strong enough argument to convince Tim to play with the TR thresholds again. If so, what tweak would be best?
IMO, either decrease the number of uniques required for diamond (recognizing current user base doesn't provide enough unique voters for the current threshold to make sense) or increase the number of thumbs up required for diamond (keep it an exclusive club; we'd be close to 40 diamonds if all the cubic club get in).
I don't have any skin in the game other than wanting to encourage good reviewers to keep on churning out quality reviews. Having so many people stuck in pre-diamond limbo doesn't seem to be helping achieve that goal.
Ill also point out that more than 30 of the 50 diamonds haven't reviewed a course yet in 2022. Several of which are going on 5 plus years now without a review and pretty much stopped once diamond level was achieved.
I personally think it should take more reviews to make each TR level other than bronze level. There are probably 3 to 4 times as many courses now than when the site first launched. Someone reviewing 50 courses in 2008 had to branch out, whereas today someone could achieve that in one big metro.
Shhhhhhh don't give away my secret dude.
DiscinOhio has officially disc-ed their way into the 1,000 club. Congrats!
IF a change were considered to DR status, maybe someone could look at the historical averages of two things WHEN DR status was actually obtained for existing diamond reviewers:
1) thumbs up - thumbs down
2) # of courses reviewed
In other words, WHEN each current member reached DR level, what were their stats for those two metrics? That would seem like a good proxy or place to start if lowering uniques.
And if uniques were being lowered to compensate for current site membership logistics, then maybe the two adjusted threshholds above could be made a little higher than those historical averages to offset the lower uniques...
While we are at it, why not make uniques easier to know/track? If someone is working extra hard just to get to DR level (which seems likely given the above observations), shouldn't they have some idea where they are in the process? Goals need to be achievable, but progress should also be obtainable.
i would also like to encourage good reviewers to continue to churn out reviews. I think what timg initially set-up worked to achieve that in many ways. Perhaps there is something he could tweak, although i'm not sure he'd even consider tweaks at the moment.
I personally think it should take more reviews to make each TR level other than bronze level. There are probably 3 to 4 times as many courses now than when the site first launched. Someone reviewing 50 courses in 2008 had to branch out, whereas today someone could achieve that in one big metro.
Ill also point out that more than 30 of the 50 diamonds haven't reviewed a course yet in 2022. Several of which are going on 5 plus years now without a review and pretty much stopped once diamond level was achieved.
heck yeah.Moar of this: road tripping and reviewing.
Yeah, that was pretty much me. Heck, this is probably my first forum post in over 5 years! To be fair, I hit Diamond and tore tendons in my shoulder about the same time. Sadly, I hardly play any more and never pain free. I do miss being able to throw it over 250'.