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Why do you care so intensely about this? Edit: I should have expanded on my post a bit. It's quite obvious that the review was flagged by some ML model, most l
by cycrutchfield 4y ago
Why do you care so intensely about this?
Edit: I should have expanded on my post a bit. It's quite obvious that the review was flagged by some ML model, most likely not because the reviewer is a liar but probably because the host has a high prior for shenanigans. Combined with the lack of social signals for the reviewer, I could see why an ML model might be overzealous. But back to my original question: nobody is being called a liar, why take it so personally?
- prettyStandard 4y agoBecause we can't trust the systems we need to live our lives.
- thefounder 4y agoYou can always book a hotel. AirBNB will not and cannot provide you a 100% care free experience because some guests are indeed liars and there are all sorts of scams both on the guest and host side. It's a kind of ebay. It's always a hit or miss.
- _vertigo 4y agoIf that’s the case, all the more reason to be mad at Airbnb for removing legitimate reviews.
- thefounder 4y agoPerhaps they rely on some flawed signals to make their decisions such how many positive reviews you have (the buyer) vs seller's reviews(i.e who is more likely to lie). There could also be bad faith from Airbnb as some comments frame it but I believe most of the time it's just a tricky business. Check ebay and you see the same issues or even worse.
- seattle_spring 4y agoI'd much rather have one legit review removed for every 20 fake one, rather than have to wade through 20 fake reviews just to find a single authentic one.
- yifanl 4y agoI imagine being indirectly or directly called a liar/fraudster by a giant multinational is personally upsetting to the parent poster.
- cycrutchfield 4y ago“Indirectly” is likely an understatement. I doubt at any point airbnb called this person a “liar”, that’s just their own interpretation of events
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- berkes 4y agoFor me, reviews are a primary parameter when selecting a "thing" from "a platform". So when I experience that the platform is manipulating the reviews, I not only feel manipulated (maybe all previous times I overpayed, missed opportunities etc?) but I feel that what we all do know: we are there only to make that platform a nice revenue; it doesn't care about giving it's users the best value, it only cares about it's bottom-lines, which apparently don't align with my needs.
- maxbond 4y agoWhy don't you? Our economy is becoming increasingly intermediated and employees are increasingly losing their rights (and access to basic services like healthcare) by being mislabeled as contractors. There's a myriad of issues with affordability in the housing market and AirBnB exacerbates them.
- adesanmi 4y agoBecause a huge amount of value in AirBnB is its reviews. That’s how you’re supposed to know where is worth staying and where isn’t. If those can’t be trusted, then it’s an inferior B&B platform with doctored reviews that you can’t trust. My advice to those reading this is just to get a hotel unless there is no alternative. AirBnB was fine for a bit when it was cheaper than alternatives, but, in my experience, it’s now as expensive (if not more) as the hotels they’re trying to replace. There’s usually a massively inferior experience when compared to Hotels the majority of the time. At least, that’s been my experience.
- dzhiurgis 4y ago> Because a huge amount of value in AirBnB is its reviews. Reviews that you can’t leave unless other party reviewed you which self censors whenever there’s a slightest disagreement See reviews for same places on booking.com and they are consistently 1 star less