Airbnb Plans to Verify Every Listing

Re:Airbnb Plans to Verify Every Listing by personlurking on Thursday November 07, 2019 @02:05AM (#21471086)

This also strikes me as odd. I've recently been seeing extremely short reviews for places. That is, 10+ reviews per place that are basically "was great, would recommend!" or "the host was responsive, I'll come back!".

I can't tell if this is a thing people do or if they are somehow fake 5 star reviews.

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Re:Airbnb Plans to Verify Every Listing by londons_explore on Thursday November 07, 2019 @05:42AM (#21472050)

For a while AirBnB forced you to write a review before you could book another place.

During that time, I always just wrote expletives in the review box and gave everyone 1-star. I'm not going to be the unpaid QA person for AirBnB!

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Re:Airbnb Plans to Verify Every Listing by taejo on Thursday November 07, 2019 @04:56AM (#21471848)

ISTR last time I used AirBnB there was some flow that really pushed you to leave a review, which obviously leads to those kinds of uninformative reviews.

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