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Does AirBnB make it easy to view what ratings people have given? Certainly the history of an individual user provides much more useful, actionable information t
by MichaelGG 10y ago
Does AirBnB make it easy to view what ratings people have given? Certainly the history of an individual user provides much more useful, actionable information than any broad trait.
It should be easy for hosts to say they only want people with X reviews where most of them are 4-5 stars. Or a better score that weights it based on the host rating (i.e. if a user's hosts generally get 5 stars, but this user rates them all 3 stars, then it's probably a problem with the user, so avoid.) Perhaps AirBnB doesn't want do to this to avoid putting pressure on renters.
- notmarkus 10y agoThat would be a hugely useful metric for a host, but it actually is difficult to see how a user has rated their past hosts. The only method I know of is: view the user profile and look at their reviews, go to each host who reviewed them, search through their reviews to find the prospective guest. There are two points of failure here: if the guest didn't get reviewed by a host or if they didn't review a host. So when a guest only has 1-3 reviews, which seems to be about the average for older folks, it's hard to paint a picture. I did reject a guest through this method, though. Their reviews from hosts were actually all very good, but when I read their reviews of their hosts, they contained things like "he was nice enough to give me a ride to the airport when I asked, though the car was a bit cramped."