2023 Reviewer of the Year

Tyler V · Jun 15, 2023

magictenor1 · Jun 15, 2023

Surge5 said:
I think I rushed to get Gold cause I knew it was attainable living so close to so many courses, but now that is long past and I've settled into what I know will be a very long wait for Diamond.

I definitely think because of the app-that-must-not-be-named there is a big decline in newer users (not sure, I only started reviewing in 2020). But there are so many new players that hopefully they find this site catch the bagging/reviewing/upvoting bug as I did. Just recently Nate32 and RodneyTravis are examples of that. There's definitely a lot of lurkers, but I think with some old names getting votes out (shyguy30 popped a few of mine again) and some new names (thanks mrsthrembo) the site is in a fine spot. The glory days may be gone, but it's a great place to get real reviews and ratings and I'm glad to add to that.

Plus you lot are alright for disc golf chatter, I guess.

I belong to a DG club in a small town in Mississippi. Around 30 members. Not a single one I'm aware of actually uses or is active on here. They use that other site lol

magictenor1 · Jun 15, 2023

My brother (aclay) turned me on to this thread today. (We have been doing DG camp this week). I've gotten to the point where I only write reviews for courses without them or where major changes have occurred, no review in several years etc. If a course has multiple good solid reviews I don't usually review.

aclay · Jun 16, 2023

wellsbranch250 said:
Wolfhaley and Sillybizz have dropped a ton of reviews the last couple of weeks. I dont have time to do do a full update, but i have wolfhaley at 55, HyooMac at 43 and Sillybizz and Rodneytravis both at 37. Espresso rounds out the top 5 at 28.

I'm at 25 for the year with 9 in June. Watch out!

aclay · Jun 16, 2023

I forgot I hadn't posted my review from Springfield Park, which I played yesterday. It's up now, so I'm at 26 for the year with 10 in June.

sillybizz · Jun 16, 2023

aclay said:
I'm at 25 for the year with 9 in June. Watch out!

aclay said:
I forgot I hadn't posted my review from Springfield Park, which I played yesterday. It's up now, so I'm at 26 for the year with 10 in June.

aclay · Jun 16, 2023

sillybizz said:

How are the mere mortals supposed to catch you if you keep posting reviews?

sillybizz · Jun 16, 2023

aclay said:
How are the mere mortals supposed to catch you if you keep posting reviews?

Sounds like a YOU problem

wolfhaley · Jun 17, 2023

Looks like it'll be me and sillybizz battling to the death at this rate. My guess is Rodney takes this in the end though. Over/unders?

opcorn:

aclay · Jun 17, 2023

wolfhaley said:
Looks like it'll be me and sillybizz battling to the death at this rate. My guess is Rodney takes this in the end though. Over/unders? opcorn:

I'll set the over/under to win at 100. The current pace would go over that, but I assume the late fall and winter will cause some slow down. I also put the over/under at 50 to crack the top 10.

DiscGolfCraig · Jun 17, 2023

wolfhaley said:
Looks like it'll be me and sillybizz battling to the death at this rate. My guess is Rodney takes this in the end though. Over/unders? opcorn:

SillyBizz is about tapped out on courses played he hasn't reviewed. He'll need to bag a bunch. You have 400 courses you could churn reviews out for anytime.

HyooMac · Jun 17, 2023

Meanwhile, new reviews/reviewers are pushed off the front page, reducing their traction and ability to become trusted reviewers of the future. This "contest" is sort of stupid.

DiscGolfCraig · Jun 17, 2023

HyooMac said:
Meanwhile, new reviews/reviewers are pushed off the front page, reducing their traction and ability to become trusted reviewers of the future. This "contest" is sort of stupid.

That gets back to the question of why do you write reviews? Is it simply to get a click from the same 12 people?

DFrah · Jun 17, 2023

wolfhaley said:
Looks like it'll be me and sillybizz battling to the death at this rate. My guess is Rodney takes this in the end though. Over/unders? opcorn:

I think the final podium is going to be the three of you in some order.

Beyond that, difficult to say.

sillybizz · Jun 17, 2023

HyooMac said:
Meanwhile, new reviews/reviewers are pushed off the front page, reducing their traction and ability to become trusted reviewers of the future. This "contest" is sort of stupid.

I respectfully disagree. In order to rise the ranks of being a trusted reviewer you need to put out both a good quantity and quality of reviews and it just takes time. It also helps to review courses that are popular courses which usually means courses in a major metropolitan area or are 4.5 or higher type of courses. If you do all of these things you will eventually become bronze, silver, and so on. I don't believe that more, quality reviews from trusted reviewers is some how hurting the site or others.

DiscGolfCraig said:
That gets back to the question of why do you write reviews? Is it simply to get a click from the same 12 people?

I write reviews because I enjoy writing reviews and helping others find courses they want to play. When I first starting course bagging in the early to mid 00's the only resource I had was the PDGA website which had very basic information and didn't really give you a sense of how the course was gonna be. When I found DGCR in early 2009 it was a revelation for me. It really helped me out and I read reviews for hours, planning my next course bagging trip. The Valkyrie Kid was THE reviewer in my area (Seattle) and I strived to do something similar. If I can help one person in the way that he and others did for me than I am happy to spend my time reviewing courses and posting them here. Frankly I've never cared much for thumbs up or thumbs down but more glad to know people are reading them.

thrembo · Jun 17, 2023

sillybizz said:
I respectfully disagree. In order to rise the ranks of being a trusted reviewer you need to put out both a good quantity and quality of reviews and it just takes time. It also helps to review courses that are popular courses which usually means courses in a major metropolitan area or are 4.5 or higher type of courses. If you do all of these things you will eventually become bronze, silver, and so on. I don't believe that more, quality reviews from trusted reviewers is some how hurting the site or others.

I write reviews because I enjoy writing reviews and helping others find courses they want to play. When I first starting course bagging in the early to mid 00's the only resource I had was the PDGA website which had very basic information and didn't really give you a sense of how the course was gonna be. When I found DGCR in early 2009 it was a revelation for me. It really helped me out and I read reviews for hours, planning my next course bagging trip. The Valkyrie Kid was THE reviewer in my area (Seattle) and I strived to do something similar. If I can help one person in the way that he and others did for me than I am happy to spend my time reviewing courses and posting them here. Frankly I've never cared much for thumbs up or thumbs down but more glad to know people are reading them.

The Kid is THE reviewer in every area!

Tyler V · Jun 17, 2023

All new reviews stay in the recent reviews feed on the front page for 3 days, so they're not necessarily getting kicked early when someone spans a bunch of reviews in a row. You might just need to click "older" a couple of times to catch up on any reviews you may have missed.

sillybizz · Jun 17, 2023

DiscGolfCraig said:
SillyBizz is about tapped out on courses played he hasn't reviewed. He'll need to bag a bunch. You have 400 courses you could churn reviews out for anytime.

wolfhaley said:
Looks like it'll be me and sillybizz battling to the death at this rate. My guess is Rodney takes this in the end though. Over/unders? opcorn:

DFrah said:
I think the final podium is going to be the three of you in some order.

Beyond that, difficult to say.

Yeah all of my recent reviews have been course bagging trips. At this point I have zero courses that I can review unless I go and bag them. I've played everything within a two hour drive of me besides a few in Yellowstone which I plan to get to in July. I may have a few more in Ogden/Salt Lake when I go back down there but other than that I'm about tapped out. I foresee maybe 10 more reviews from me this year unless something changes. Around 50 is where I'm gonna max out I'm afraid.

HyooMac · Jun 17, 2023

I'm not critical of the reviews themselves - they're very good.

And yeah, all reviews stay visible for three days - but front pages always get more views.

Hats off to aclay's comment about he same 12 guys liking reviews. You guys are great, and I appreciate every one of you that reads my stuff.

Have you ever been tooling along in the middle or left lane, going responsibly( but well above the speed limit), and a couple of guys pass on the inside doing about 90, weaving around the other traffic because they're in some kind of race with each other? It's tempting in the moment to hit the gas. But then I think "79mph is just fine. I'll be back here."

sillybizz · Jun 17, 2023

And to be clear with me this is mostly a result of moving to a new area last year. I got here in early August and the rest of the summer was moving in and I didn't get a chance to do any bagging. Now that the weather is nice I'm exploring the area, not really anything out of the norm it just so happens there is a friendly competition going on if you want to call it that. If this was going on in 2019 it wouldn't have changed the number of reviews I had that year - 0.

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