Hello All, I hope this post finds you all well, I'm relatively new hosting (3.5 years) and posting here (6 months), I just want to thank everyone for being so accepting of new faces like mine, the incredible amount of "Fair Trade" Host experience banter here and the Lizzie lead Friday online zooms! Having been an active member member of a couple "common interest" non professional's online communities over the years that were more like clubs, I recognize that we are a bit of an anomaly here at the Airbnb CC as Online chats go, this isnt a club at all, its more like a small world. Our particular group of mostly English speaking (not exclusive mind you) professionals from everywhere on the planet freely share both their trade secrets and interests that often help many of us become better at hosting or may not have much to do with Hosting at all. That dynamic is extremely rare in this Bookface world of endless bashing blather that often ends in hurt feelings and broken families. The "Moderators" do as they must but it does seem the majority of participants don't cross the "TOS" boundaries often or ever even in the crappiest of times "like Covid 2020" so our Mod Squad has time to do more creative and less controversy producing things like Zooms, word-games and such.
The basis for our Common bonds here are professional, "Lodging hosting" and specifically under Airbnb's Flag (even though I know many of you are on multiple platforms) no matter where our Short Term Rental Hostel, BNB, Home, Yurt, Glamper, Cabin, A frame or other STR physically resides. Now I want to get to the heart of why I'm writing this, bear with me. Discussing the politics of anything we are passionate about or prideful in (like our livelihoods or our home-fronts!) including President/ Director/ Prime Minister Chesky and his staff on a professional company sponsored web presence requires a certain amount of "due" respect to be displayed at all times even if it isn't always "earned" in some areas. The same goes with discussing the politics of our actual hosting nations, talking about your leaders or mine here could be perceived as either a baseball bat to the head or a flower being handed to you. Even as the person that saw it as a flower is thanking you, someone else is going to the refrigerator for a bag of ice to put on their eye. Lets not do that here if we can help it please?
There is plenty of awesome stuff to be said, discussed, asked, known, shared and done here on the CC that will make us stronger as an Airbnb Nation and singular hosts in it, that's our proven strength as a group and it also helps us put food on our own tables at the same time! I'm not sure my posting is a long conversation starter thread, it really doesn't need to be. Just please understand that its easier today than ever before to offend when we are so capable of reaching out and touching the world, some things might be better left unsaid to keep the other conversations alive, nuff said, Stay well, JR