Why we come to DGCR Forums

[Dave242]

I was curious as to why all of us come here.....and I felt like killing some time, so I did some analysis on the posting data here.

For each Forum & Sub Forum I added up the number of Replies & Views from the first page showing (omitted the sticky announcement) and this is what I came up with. Red is top of category and Blue is bottom:

[COLOR="LemonChiffon"]-----	----	[/COLOR][B]ViewsPr	PostsPr	
Replies	Views	Reply	Topic	*Forum or Sub-Forum (Topics/Posts)[/B]
[COLOR="red"]2,118]	88,500[/COLOR]	[COLOR="Red"]42[/COLOR]	[COLOR="red"]53[/COLOR]	*DGCR Announcements & News (147/7,734)
[COLOR="red"]12,916	613,276[/COLOR]	[COLOR="red"]47[/COLOR]	36	*General Disc Golf Chat (6,165/219,557)
1,116	30,518	27	18	*Disc Golf Courses (3,569/65,661)
1,425	57,121	[COLOR="red"]40[/COLOR]	37	 Course Design (245/9,070)
226	10,306	[COLOR="red"]46[/COLOR]	[COLOR="blue"]12[/COLOR]	 Courses in Development (403/4,737)
499	20,842	[COLOR="red"]42[/COLOR]	24	 Course Maint. & Equipment (173/4,086)
477	7,401	16	13	 Vacations & Road Trips (1,037/13,837)
832	7,539	[COLOR="Blue"]9[/COLOR]	36	 Hole of the Day (636/22,747)
180	[COLOR="blue"]6,525[/COLOR]	36	16	 Form Analysis/Critique (169/2,648)
471	12,520	27	26	 Rules Questions & Discussion (107/2,824)
[COLOR="red"]19,029	650,932[/COLOR]	34	28	*Equipment (10,835/308,043)
675	22,744	34	14	 Bag Suggestions & Feedback (1,113/15,907)
9,473	[COLOR="Red"]535,993[/COLOR]	57	20	 Disc Dyeing (1,782/35,637)
366	9,258	25	16	*Tournaments (1,354/21,736)
3,234	25,223	[COLOR="Blue"]8[/COLOR]	43	*The Water Cooler (3,315,142,675)
5,162	42,662	[COLOR="blue"]8[/COLOR]	[COLOR="red"]114[/COLOR]	 Current Events (109/12,446)
1,483	12,795	[COLOR="blue"]9[/COLOR]	29	 Entertainment & Technology (593/17,134)
4,671	26,753	[COLOR="blue"]6[/COLOR]	[COLOR="red"]84[/COLOR]	 Other Sports (250/20,915)
158	[COLOR="blue"]5,040[/COLOR]	32	[COLOR="blue"]9[/COLOR]	*The Marketplace (94 Viewing)
182	6,810	37	[COLOR="blue"]11[/COLOR]	 DGCR Auctions (676/7,456)
427	15,377	36	[COLOR="blue"]7[/COLOR]	 The Flea Market (497/3,457)
184	[COLOR="Blue"]5,153[/COLOR]	28	47	*DGCR Sponsors (4/188)
394	15,921	[COLOR="red"]40[/COLOR]	26	*Vendor/Commercial Marketplace (16/410)
200	[COLOR="blue"]6,518[/COLOR]	33	[COLOR="blue"]12[/COLOR]	*Suggestions, Bugs & Help (1,359/16,699)
[COLOR="red"]11,133	162,178[/COLOR]	15	[COLOR="Red"]75[/COLOR]	*DGCR Meets (241/18,056)
159	[COLOR="Blue"]4,198[/COLOR]	26	[COLOR="blue"]8[/COLOR]	*DGCR Travel Tags (131/1,028)
[COLOR="Red"]31,397	376,164[/COLOR]	[COLOR="Blue"]12[/COLOR]	[COLOR="Red"]147[/COLOR]	*The Landfill (530/77,890)

 

[Dave242]

The Sub-Forum that blew me away was the Disc Dying - not a ton of posts, but 3 most views....and by far the most "Views per Reply"....which means a ton of people stop by just to read and/or look.

I was also encouraged that my favorite area (Course Design), while it only has 1/10th the posts of the popular threads, it seems to be pretty well read by observers (non-posters). This is good since IMO that is the single most important topic for a site that is supposed to be about reviewing disc golf courses.

 

[optidiscic]

yep....this saddens me
when I began on this website I was looking forward to lively discussions regarding course design and courses in general (based on the title)
But course discussions are generally the same handful of us.....depressing that no one on a course review site cares about course discussions

 

[optidiscic]

Disc Dyeing is full of quick exchanges between dyers..almost like a chat..driving up post counts

other topics are generally more well thought out

and yeah people love to look at dyes I guess

 

[Dave242]

yep....this saddens me
when I began on this website I was looking forward to lively discussions regarding course design and courses in general (based on the title)
But course discussions are generally the same handful of us.....depressing that no one on a course review site cares about course discussions

I dunno....while I wish it were a better attended area, it has a pretty high amount of Views and a very high "View per Reply" ratio. So, it appears that a fair amount of people are following along with the discussion. It could well be that one person (me) posts so much in a know-it-all sort of way that it scares people off from chiming in. :doh: :wall:

 

[optidiscic]

I actually think most people's only interest in design is the 3 seconds after they hit a tree or landed in a creek and then they bitch about the design....apparently after that they discuss how they have to retrieve that cool dyed disc

 

[Mike C]

I come here because after the sun goes down and I'm bored with throwing putts, I still have disc golf on my mind. Last few weeks have pretty much been wake up, golf 'till sunset, throw some putts, BS on DG forums until I feel sleepy, then repeat. I'm obsessed.

 

[harr0140]

yep....this saddens me
when I began on this website I was looking forward to lively discussions regarding course design and courses in general (based on the title)
But course discussions are generally the same handful of us.....depressing that no one on a course review site cares about course discussions

I will talk course design any day of the week . . . just send me a message

 

[prestonkuke21]

It helps me burn through 12 hour shifts at work seven days a week for four weeks straight!

 

[ZBoazMobster]

Disc Dyeing is full of quick exchanges between dyers..almost like a chat..driving up post counts

other topics are generally more well thought out

and yeah people love to look at dyes I guess

I wouldn't have to say "Nice Dye" if I could just click 'Like'.
ohwai... this isn't FB.

I'm not surprised that the dye forum gets as many views. I love to look at 'em.

 

[GLong]

based on the number of landfill replies and posts per topic, i'm guessing that people are coming here for the lulz.

 

[Cgkdisc]

The reason the course design area may have the stats shown is fewer people may feel comfortable posting and having to potentially take a position and possibly defend their point of view. The fact the views per post is pretty high would indicate solid interest in the topics though.

 

[TheWCG]

I come here because after the sun goes down and I'm bored with throwing putts, I still have disc golf on my mind. Last few weeks have pretty much been wake up, golf 'till sunset, throw some putts, BS on DG forums until I feel sleepy, then repeat. I'm obsessed.

To some extent, this is why I'm here. Granted, I never really have truly "good" input on any thread here but I try sometimes. It's just a good solid place to waste time talking and reading about things that interest me.
As far as course design, everybody has their own opinions on whats good and whats not. There are a lot of good players on here and there are a lot of players that are "up and coming". So the opinions vary a LOT. So sometimes it's hard to get involved in a deep discussion with a player thats been playing 15yrs with 20 something courses played vs a player thats been playing 5yrs with 300 courses played. It's 2 completely different levels of experience. That are VERY opinionated.

 

[mashnut]

I really got active on the site because of the course directory and reviews, so that's still probably the section of the forums I read the most.