(I posted this on the Hosting board, but is applicable to this one also)
If there are 750,000 total hosts and 150,000 are Superhosts and there is only $10 million to go around, and they are giving it out in $5,000 chunks it would mean that only 2,000 gifts are available to go around (75:1).
Even after all their tribunal decisions to cut down who merits getting a grant or not, by using some philanthropic and well-meaning criteria, and leads to improving the odds by 'disqualifying' 1/3 or 1/2 of Superhosts, improving the odds all the way down to only 1:20, Airbnb will still disappoint 95% of the group and be the hero to only 5%. Taking their sweet time to hand out the lousy $10m (in the scheme of things) only augments the false-hope guessing game now going on for 6 weeks.
Why does Airbnb do fooling things like this? Which begs the question - what non-Homo Sapiens planet have they been living in the last decade, since they too often demonstrate no clue of human nature?