Dave242 as I recall it got a torrent of thumbs down by basically being arrogant and saying his way was better so he wasn't going to adapt his reviewing style. When we suggested he just NOT review here if he wasn't going to follow the format, he arrogantly responded that he was this very important source of information and the site needed his data. Then he shrugged us all off by say something to the effect that we could just thumbs down them if we didn't like it. So we did. :|Dave242 got me because he would review courses when the baskets were pulled.
"HOW THE #&%$ DO YOU PLAY AND REVIEW A COURSE WITH NO BASKETS":wall:
He's probably a nice enough guy, I think he just came off weird on the Interwebz. I have that problem sometimes and come off like a know it all. All I know for sure is I surely don't know it all.
In retrospect it was silliness on the Interwebz, but he could have played it a lot cooler and avoided a lot of the thumbs down. He made himself a target.
Once he made himself a target, there were questions like him saying he played a course when the baskets were pulled and him saying he played Flyboy when the designer said there was no way anyone could have played it that quickly. It seemed that he felt like he could just walk a course and evaluate it without actually playing it. Which...he's right. You can. The thing is that if you understand disc golfers at all you would know doing it and getting caught would be bad. Disc golf is a players sport; you play or you don't. If you don't play, you don't matter. For a lot of disc golfers if you don't play well you don't matter. Even though I think it can be done, I'd never try to pass off a review on a course I didn't play because I wouldn't want to risk my credibility with other disc golfers. As high-profile as Flyboy was at the time, it was a weird decision to make.