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Re:Modern workers are at the mercy of ratings by aprdm on Friday February 07, 2020 @07:58PM (#22272868)
I think there’s a bit of an imbalance as customers can easily create new accounts
Re:Modern workers are at the mercy of ratings by rock_hard on Friday February 07, 2020 @08:15PM (#22272969)
Not really...most of these services require to register with a phone number creating a pretty high barrier to create additional accounts for the common folk
Re:Modern workers are at the mercy of ratings by xnyan on Friday February 07, 2020 @08:48PM (#22273155)
If you wanted to rent an Airbnb and you couldn’t because your phone number was associated with a negatively reviewed account, anyone who had the ability to get a phone number has the ability to get a second. It may be a minor inconvenience but not a particularly costly one.

If I was a renter and wanted to disassociate from bad reviews, I imagine the easiest way to do it would be to transfer overship of the property to a holding company or similar. This is far harder to do and there’s far more cost.

Re:Modern workers are at the mercy of ratings by gruez on Friday February 07, 2020 @11:38PM (#22273914)
>most of these services require to register with a phone number creating a pretty high barrier to create additional accounts for the common folk

getting a prepaid sim is a "high barrier"?

Re:Modern workers are at the mercy of ratings by jaxn on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:06AM (#22274033)
Absolutely. Do you want to keep that SIM around for the next trip and the next?
Re:Modern workers are at the mercy of ratings by Godel_unicode on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:35AM (#22274132)
Yes.