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I probably wouldn’t feel great (and I wouldn’t post negatively either), but who’s running the business and receiving money and who is spending money? Paying mo

I probably wouldn’t feel great (and I wouldn’t post negatively either), but who’s running the business and receiving money and who is spending money? Paying money to get blasted would be a new low yet being a business and getting blasted is kinda a time-honored situation. This actually is kinda aligned with what I’m talking about because the bad owners don't realize they’re running a business when they rent their property, and their problems are caused by not caring about what businesses have to care about, which is reputation and value of name. But yeah overall agreed, esp. about who has the time & energy to go ballistic about these things and the long realization that this is why hotels are a much better place to spend money.

privateSFacct 7y ago
I'm less confident that an airbnb "business" might not go off-site to slam customers. We already have regular businesses suing yelp users etc for bad reviews even if factual. I'm not a huge fan of the hunt people down across the net and in real life to destory them modern approach to problems - even if you as a user claim you need the "outlet". Someone shows up to your airbnb in Berkeley wearing a trump hat. You're telling me no Berkeley hosts would go slamming these guests as racists online if they could? Someone shows up down south on vacation with their partner but hasn't yet come out yet as gay - has a bad host interaction with someone bigoted - if airbnb allowed off-site reviews you are sure no one would out this couple? I get the urge to publicly destroy people, just realize there may be folks with opinions different than yours who may then want to spend time trying to destroy you.