Marking the Basket

[Technohic]

I have yet to get my first ace but its a good thing I came here to this site as before, I saw where people marked the baskets and not only did I think it was acceptable, I thought maybe it was a disc golf custom.

I have always tried to be respectful and now, this is just another thing I WONT do to maintain that effort, not that I am perfect, but I try to do whats right most the time.

 

[Lewis]

I'd rather have my friends sign the disc than sign the basket myself. I get to keep the disc with me wherever I go. One thing I've seen at a local course is a space on the course bulletin board where people can record their aces. This is a preferable way to "show off" your aces to the rest of the park.

 

[biscoe]

come now it's all of this, the law is black and white crap, i don't like in the first place. as long as someone isn't destroying the basket, who cares? do you think the guys who tagged burnside in portland should be arrested?

no i think they should be flogged with a star boss for DISCipline as their mommies and daddies undoubtedly failed to do.

if i catch some moron writing all over equipment at some course i have worked my butt off to install from kissing p&r behinds all the way through doing the physical labor i will put my foot in their arse so hard they taste shoe leather. what do you think the perception of disc golf with the parks department becomes when they see grafitti all over their equipment? it ain't all about the disc golfers.

 

[BogeyNoMore]

ONLY DOUCHEBAGS SIGN TEES & BASKETS.

Just to be clear: this is strictly a maturity thing. Signing the sign or basket is the Disc Golf equivalent of giving a chick a hickey or writing her name on the bathroom wall - seems like fun when your 16, but ultimately, it's just cheap and tacky.

If you're fortunate enough to hit an Ace, whoop out load, savor the moment and make sure your friends buy you a beer. Remember it however you wish, but show a little class and dignity. On heavily played courses, it's just a matter of time until some holes have been aced dozens of times, and on holes that are truly Ace Runs, I don't doubt that number could easily hit 3 digits.

I play Fire Fighter's regularly - those tee signs used to be halfway decent. Now everyone and their mother has scrawled something on them. If that happened every time an Ace was hit during the Mon evening league that plays there, there'd just be little bits of white peeping out from behind all the Sharpie. Who needs to see all that crap on the baskets, tee sign's, whatever? Thankfully, the league frowns upon that sort of behavior.

I GUARANTEE park officials considering whether or not to put in a new course check out neighboring courses, and ask people running those parks about what's happened since the course went in, what's the maintenance like, etc. Can you really picture all the ink making anyone involved with making that decision more likely to say "YES" to spending the $$$ to put in a new course?

Grow up and commemorate the occasion without defacing public property.

One thing I've seen at a local course is a space on the course bulletin board where people can record their aces. This is a preferable way to "show off" your aces to the rest of the park.

Seems quite reasonable to me, but I doubt too many parks will add that after the fact.
I think local clubs will have to ask permission to do that as well as foot the bill for it.

 

[ERicJ]

I see nothing wrong with a date and name on a basket. it's fun to see what holes people have aced. it's not as though it is real vandalism. vandalism involves damaging property. it's like when someone does some spray can stuff at a skate park. as long as it is in good taste, it is simply expression.

 

[80playedin10states]

gotta learn these youngins!! vandalism=writing on baskets/tee signs=bad=not good

 

[BogeyNoMore]

With ALL due respect Trasmonster...

I see nothing wrong with a date and name on a basket. it's fun to see what holes people have aced. it's not as though it is real vandalism. vandalism involves damaging property. it's like when someone does some spray can stuff at a skate park. as long as it is in good taste, it is simply expression.

Spoken like a true moron!

 

[80playedin10states]

ignorance is chosen, stupidity is bred...

 

[mashnut]

Writing on baskets makes me annoyed, writing on tee signs makes me mad, and writing over the actual information on the tee sign makes me want to empty my bag at you. I tried to be civil with a guy I found writing his name on a tee sign right over the hole distance, but he didn't want to listen, we ended up in a bit of an argument, and he decided to leave the course, hopefully permanently. his name is written all over the course for aces, and "has been here", and I've seen him before leaving trash and empty beer bottles on the ground within 100' of a trash can.

 

[80playedin10states]

Writing on baskets makes me annoyed, writing on tee signs makes me mad, and writing over the actual information on the tee sign makes me want to empty my bag at you. I tried to be civil with a guy I found writing his name on a tee sign right over the hole distance, but he didn't want to listen, we ended up in a bit of an argument, and he decided to leave the course, hopefully permanently. his name is written all over the course for aces, and "has been here", and I've seen him before leaving trash and empty beer bottles on the ground within 100' of a trash can.

next time you witness him littering or defacing park property, CALL THE COPS..set an example, and maybe people will realize it isn't the "IN THING" to do..

 

[mashnut]

next time you witness him littering or defacing park property, CALL THE COPS..set an example, and maybe people will realize it isn't the "IN THING" to do..

Well, that's what chased him off, I threatened to have the conversation with the cop who had been cruising through the parking lot instead of just with me, and he decided to go.

 

[trashmonster1985]

cry me a mother******* river. i've never heard so much complaining about such a silly aspect of the sport. so someone gets an ace and marks it. if it ruins your day so much, go home get some rubbing alcohol and clean it off. my point being THEY ARE METAL BASKETS IN PARKS AND WOODLAND SETTINGS. as far as i am concerned that is unsightly in itself. so writing a little denotation on it don't do crap. and i've helped maintain courses, and know others who have done the work and it nevers seems to be an issue on the west coast. of course we also don't deal with garbage absolutely everywhere. so i guess a little writing doesn't seem like a big deal.

 

[trashmonster1985]

...i'm not saying i promote graffiti. i live in one of the most beautiful places in the world. i detest vandalism. i also hate when people put jane loves jack, and all that crap. but i don't let it get under my skin. yeah if i saw some punk just writing random shat it would piss me off. but it's not as bad as the guy piss drunk leaving beds and garbage everywhere. but a little mark for an ace seems like a fine custom to me. i would never do it at a place like bracketts or other private course.

a note on ball golf. i've played at a bolf course outside of bend. on one of the shorter par three holes they had a post for writing/carving hole-in-ones on.

 

[MrFixIt]

cry me a mother******* river. i've never heard so much complaining about such a silly aspect of the sport. so someone gets an ace and marks it. if it ruins your day so much, go home get some rubbing alcohol and clean it off. my point being THEY ARE METAL BASKETS IN PARKS AND WOODLAND SETTINGS. as far as i am concerned that is unsightly in itself. so writing a little denotation on it don't do crap. and i've helped maintain courses, and know others who have done the work and it nevers seems to be an issue on the west coast. of course we also don't deal with garbage absolutely everywhere. so i guess a little writing doesn't seem like a big deal.

Geez, I tried to be civil in my earlier post in regards to your post(s).
What part of this do you not understand?
I hope that you do not play courses in the state of GA. Maybe, wherever you're from, someone will jerk a knot in your a$$, and make you understand that defacing property is wrong.

Or, maybe you are just making these statements to see the reactions of responsible people... it's very easy to say things when hidden behind a computer screen.

 

[mike shoys]

what is jerking a knot in someones ass? i don't know if i'd want to do that to anyone. even a hot pornstar chick defacing a basket.

 

[IndyGreen]

I say if you're 4 years old, it's OK to scribble on stuff now and then.

 

[MrFixIt]

what is jerking a knot in someones ass? i don't know if i'd want to do that to anyone. even a hot pornstar chick defacing a basket.

It is the equivalent of teaching someone a lesson in a rather violent fashion.
It's a southern expression, I guess

 

[DGChronicles]

cry me a mother******* river. i've never heard so much complaining about such a silly aspect of the sport. so someone gets an ace and marks it. if it ruins your day so much, go home get some rubbing alcohol and clean it off. my point being THEY ARE METAL BASKETS IN PARKS AND WOODLAND SETTINGS. as far as i am concerned that is unsightly in itself. so writing a little denotation on it don't do crap. and i've helped maintain courses, and know others who have done the work and it nevers seems to be an issue on the west coast. of course we also don't deal with garbage absolutely everywhere. so i guess a little writing doesn't seem like a big deal.

QFT...i dont get why someone would freak out about this...

 

[Midnightbiker]

I say if you're 4 years old, it's OK to scribble on stuff now and then.

LOL! Good one.

 

[80playedin10states]

what part of vandalism=illegal do people not understand? one more sign that today's youth don't give 2 chits about anything but themselves