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How can this site pretend to have any credibility in rating courses, when it allows a review for one course (Cherry Hill) to be applied to another course (Black Falls) ? It's way beyond bogus.
You're questioning the credibility... of a website... that focuses on the reviews... of minimally moderated and un-credentialed users.How can this site pretend to have any credibility in rating courses, when it allows a review for one course (Cherry Hill) to be applied to another course (Black Falls) ? It's way beyond bogus.
How can this site pretend to have any credibility in rating courses, when it allows a review for one course (Cherry Hill) to be applied to another course (Black Falls) ? It's way beyond bogus.
It's up to the collective to self-regulate and fact check.
Tim,
A suspect review of Black falls came up in the forum today. I spent a good half hour reviewing all the data out there during my lunch break. This review in question of Black Falls, although perhaps looking legit, has substantial legitimacy issues. The owner provides a self-account that the reviewer has misrepresented the conditions or noted that they may have reviewed the wrong course. Another reviewer revised their review a few weeks later with a play date one day after the review in question, and they noted excellent conditions. That's not possible.
There are major conflicts in available details. When presented an anomaly such as this, the review in question should be thrown out. The review is either malicious in an effect to bring the course rating down. Breaking a ground rule, "Do not give an artificially low/high rating to try to influence the overall rating. Please give an honest rating." Or it's reviewing the wrong course with details of their trip confused with another course. The reviewer did post 3 reviews the same day from the same region.
The review should be removed in my opinion.
Best regards,
Mark Blazer - wellsbranch250
You are THEY.I reported my thoughts to Tim.
How close is Black Falls to Cherry Hill?
Cherry Hill has been closed and baskets pulled since 2013. It was less than a half mile down the road from Black Falls.
I still shake my head in disbelief at that one real negative review of Black Falls. This was the same year someone stole our sign and vandalized the course.
Well I just want to tell you that the highlight of my disc golf career was playing your course with my son and a growler of Hill Farmstead beer.Thanks Mando. That is quite the compliment coming from you. The course is looking real good right now. It's a bit wet after a big winter, over 450" of snow. There is still a ton of work to do and improvements to be made on the course.
I apologize again to all of you for that terrible thread I created a few years back after the review in question. My personal attacks and behavior were way out of line.
Is anyone not going to Black Falls because it's rating was knocked down to "only 4.55"? Is anyone reading through all those glowing reviews, coming across the one that trashed it, and deciding that all the good reviews must be bogus?
It has 4.5 stars by its name, regardless of that one post and review.
The short answer is yes, it is an obstacle to traffic when you get knocked out of the top 25 for no good reason. I'm surprised he hasn't RIPed his course and washed his hands of DGCR.Is anyone not going to Black Falls because it's rating was knocked down to "only 4.55"? Is anyone reading through all those glowing reviews, coming across the one that trashed it, and deciding that all the good reviews must be bogus?
It has 4.5 stars by its name, regardless of that one post and review.
Somebody reviewed us on Google saying we "always have great food and quick service", which means they are either nuts, or really like the water coming out of my hose. Nobody has trashed Stoney Hill on DGCR, but they have verbally, one local advanced player saying all of the holes are stupid. But my ego survived, and we've managed well enough without him.