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The idea would be just to curb the issue of people joining the site, writing one crappy 5 star review because someone asked them to and then never visiting the site or writing another review.
Yup, it absolutely does matter. First time reviewers are not always inflating ratings. Plenty of them lowball a course cause they don't know any better...sometimes knocking courses out of the top ten.
If you want to eliminate the nonsense, just take the top ten off the front page.
That would be an improvement, but won't the response just be to have the shill write a second review ?Anything with 1 review would be effected. I do like that IMDB formula for their top 250 too, I might try that later to see how it effects the listings here.
That would be an improvement, but won't the response just be to have the shill write a second review ?
It at least weeds out the lazy people....
and there are a lot of lazy people.
I dislike this idea immensely even though I'm a Diamond TR.
My OPINION isn't the least bit more valuable than anyone else's OPINION.
If you find TR reviews more helpful, there's already a filter for that.
I don't understand the misunderstanding with the rating system here. It's fairly straightforward. The Top Ten isn't the FINAL WORD on course rankings; it's more of a guideline.
Reviews are NOT supposed to take into account one aspect of design more than the others, unless that's what is important to that individual reviewer. There are as many opinions on what constitutes good design as there are players. Ditto when it comes to amenities (or lack thereof).
Some people review based entirely on fun factor, and that's okay.
What's most important is that everyone 1) uses the entire scale (0.0-5.0) 2) individuals develop a personal method of reviewing and 3) individual reviews stay true to their rating systems over time.
I don't get how people are trying to make this a science when it's clearly a matter of personal tastes and opinions. As long as everyone's opinions hold the same weight and everyone uses the same scale, the outliers will be just that: outliers.
From the perspective of a non top ten private course owner,making the top ten and being on the front page seems like the very best advertising you could have for increasing traffic on your course. I will also add, that when my course was in the top 25,(but not on the front page) it did not noticeably increase traffic. I'll also add that one of the great things about closing your course, is not having to read BS reviews of it.
I agree.
Any attempt to take subjectivity out of a system that is by it's nature wholly subjective is misbegotten.
If you can't resist the urge to change something I would think dropping both the top and bottom "X" percent would be the way to go.
Where did I say that he was lowballing it? And Selah isn't 'my' course. I simply was stating how I can't see how Selah doesn't have a wow factor. I wasn't saying thay he couldn't feel that way, but that I don't understand how it doesn't, prompting him to respond. Don't add to my post what you think I am trying to say.
I certainly did not think it had wow factor, but again, that may be because I learned the sport on a pretty darn fine course.
As a former top ten course owner I will say that the number of people contacting me to play was certainly increased by being highly rated. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on your perspective. Reading BS reviews doesn't really bother me.
I don't as the TR system is biased towards people in urban areas.I like the idea of trusted reviewers having their votes count as more. It is like a reward system.