This is insane. The Hotel Ritz is not a 5 star hotel for its "posts"!
If we have to post all the time, then we cannot provide quality in our listings.
Also I think it unfair that a plastified place gets a better rating than hosts with tasteful decore, warmth and hospitality.
Part of the value of the Ritz hotels is their antiques in every room and attentive service.
Too, with the Airbnb system, we feel we have to give good reviews so our hosts will give us good reviews when its not always true.
Traveling thru Argentina this year the first hostess refused to receive us cause she had resigned from Airbnb but she did not cancel the reservation. Luckily, I carried a print out of the receipt. I asked her where I could go in Temuco, Chile where two cats would be accepted. In the end she accepted us but charged me extra for the cats, which she charged in cash contrary to Airbnb rules. I paid $5 just to get her off my back.
The next place has pots and pans dirty and stained. The dish towel was flirther than my rags at home. We complained but she refused to replace anything. The neighbors told us she taking all renters for a ride but she is not reported as such as the Airbnb system does not encourage the truth when rating.
After that we had the most charming couple in the world. Their guest house was the most complete and neat and clean one could imagine. Why aren't they tops on all listings? We do not underdstand. Of course we gave them top scores in evderything!
Then came the apartment with red ants. They got into the cats' dry food. We frooze it to kill the ants! I supose their tops for checking their posts of a concrete, plastified nothing apartment. . .