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Find a way to get community feedback on sandbagged routes (that people fail to ascend, thus never leaving a comment)

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Some routes have fewer ticks than neighbouring routes on the same crags. Why? You could suspect some of them are sandbagged and get less ascents because people take falls, and by some reason don’t try the red point. Or maybe they’re a bit sandbagged and also not that much fun compared to the routes next to them - so people don’t bother to go for the red point.

You can only suspect why some routes have less ascents than others. Sometimes someone in the community shares their story when you talk to them. Would be fun if that type of chat and sharing of information could find its way on to the app. You can comment, but people really don’t. So perhaps find a way to get people to share info on routes they did not ascend

Cheers

Posted by Hugo Wittorf ·
1 comment

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  • Johannes Kraft

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    Apr 13, 2025

    Might be of topic but i have been thinking a lot about sandbagging.

    I live close to a crag in Sweden that is notoriously known for beeing sandbagged. And it seem that no one wants or dares to actually give a route another grade after send. Most people that tick a route never picks the grade (they leave the grade opinion field in the tick form blank) they thought it was.

    We have been thinking about if people had to make a choose on the grade if it would look any different.

    Like I said might be of topic but it's my two cents :)