Tyler V
Cubic Zirconia Hype Man | DGCR Chief Statistician
Gold level trusted reviewer
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- Mar 19, 2010
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Reviewers have it sooooo much easier these days. Any semi-decent review seemingly gets an easy 10+ positive votes these days. Back in the day, we were lucky to get four or five. Case on point - there's a recent review for a course just outside Charlotte. It got 13 votes in two days. That same course has multiple reviews more than a decade old that all have five or less votes. So, who has it harder getting votes?
Overall vote counts are up, sure, but that doesn't mean they are all unique voters. I bet I could guess at least 10 out of those 13 voters on that review if it was a decent review.
I have 896 thumbs ups on my reviews. 267 of those are from Wellsbranch250, dreadlock86, wolfhaley, lee76007, and Shadrach3 - just 5 users. If I add the next 10 biggest givers, then 62% of all of my votes are accounted for.
If you write decent reviews, you will get some love from a small but mighty group of 20-25 users on here that either vote on just about every review, or at least one of your reviews once in a while (all of which is much appreciated, to be clear). If you want unique votes, it takes really traveling around a substantial amount and hitting very well known courses to have a chance at unique votes after you write more than 10-15 reviews. Harmony Bends and Eagles Crossing have netted me 15 additional unique voters. The 25 reviews between those two courses and my Cincinnati reviews? 9. I'm sure other people have similar stats.
So numbers might be up from before, but that doesn't mean they're all unique voters. Anyone that wants Diamond will need to go well above 1,000 votes to get there.
Just look at Shadrach. He's probably the best contributor to this site the past 2 years on a review count stand point. 230 reviews across Colorado, Texas, The Southwest, The Northeast, one in California, and many popular courses like Beaver Ranch, Idlewild, Harmony, Harmon Hills, WR Jackson, and Hornets Nest. dude has 2,600 votes, and still doesn't have 250 unique voters. MrFrosty needed to review basically the East half of the country to get there.
So we have it easier these days to get more votes, but not the unique votes to achieve Diamond. I'd love to see more consistent newer voters on this site and see it grow more. As for thinking current reviewers have it easy, I'm not sure who that opinion or comment is supposed to serve. You sound like an old man on his porch rocking chair ready with a hose to scare any kids that touch your grass.
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