Thanks for tagging me in this topic and mentioning a point I made in my recent post.
I’m glad to see some changes announced but this change addresses a tiny portion of the overall review inequality problem.
I have read the blog post and here are my thoughts and questions:
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What is the purpose of limiting review deadline to 14 days?
People travel, people get lost in life admin upon return. Why make it even harder to leave and get a review? Some people use -
What if one person doesn’t leave a review?
Sitters are those at the loss if no review is left because they need reviews more in the current system. Current search results show sitter ratings and hosts don’t have that.
To many HOs it doesn’t matter if they receive a review or not as it doesn’t have consequences on finding future sitters, since the rating is practically symbolic and you can’t see it in results. Whereas a sitter can spend 2 months looking after a home, pets, garden etc, and still have 0 reviews which puts them at a disadvantage when someone considers them as a candidate.
Sitter search results and filters
(clearly state the ratings, verification and HOs can easily skip those with no or lower rating)
HO search filters and results
(filters for HOs only include amenities and location details)
- Still no Rating for HOs?
Will sitters be able to add specific rating like HOs can for sitters? (cleanliness, communication etc)
As mentioned in point 2, there is no way for sitters to know such details (unlike the other way around)