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It was well thought out too, hard to spam with fake comments etc. My family hosted people for a year or two and we were never empty. The appeal of a family hom
by zwayhowder 5y ago
It was well thought out too, hard to spam with fake comments etc.
My family hosted people for a year or two and we were never empty. The appeal of a family home with a private room that had dozens of reviews from well travelled guests was so overwhelming people would take an air mattress in my study if the private room was taken by others. We regularly had multiple groups of people staying. Our record was 11 which included 6 German 19yr olds who had a campervan but wanted access to a shower after a week in the Australian summer together.
We also were contacted by one person who was trapped in one of those "We paid for your travel here so we've confiscated your passport and you work in our shop until we decide you've paid your debt" situations. We gave her the comfort to know she had a place to stay and then a friend and I went round to collect her, he was accidently still wearing his police uniform from work, so unsurprisingly we recovered her passport quite quickly.
It was a truly great site at that time, I stayed in a few places using it, but switched to AirBnB when I could no longer find places to stay in the cities I needed to visit.
- Beldin 5y ago> he was accidently still wearing his police uniform Hear, hear, fine sirs!
- blaeks 5y agoI like this feeling in my forearm bones when I just strike and hang my axe in a swollen vain of a pure and juicy Gold-pressed latinum of the Internet. Naw, no judgement here - it's just a _gut feeling_ of a high-resolution detection/detector of the decline of the civilization-type-of-situation. again, namaste to us all \m/
- amelius 5y ago> It was well thought out too, hard to spam with fake comments etc. Curious, what techniques did they use for that?
- zwayhowder 5y agoActually I might retract that statement, further reading on https://couchers.org/ https://couchers.org/ makes me think that it could have been a lot better. People may not have left negative reviews because they didn't want to be perceived as difficult hosts/guests.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoI love the "We somewhat casually freed someone from de facto slavery." anecdote. Made my day.
- redis_mlc 5y agoThe ultimate humblebrag - I can't top that one!
- h0l0cube 5y ago> he was accidently still wearing his police uniform from work Wait, this was a cop? Did they face any consequences for this?
- nisegami 5y agoFriend was a cop, not the guy who trapped the woman.