@Munteanu0
I am regularly taken to task by contributors here for, as they would say, 'sugar coating' review suggestions.
Munteanu, some guest are not just going to annoy the **bleep** out of us.....Mate, they will drive us to insanity!
You are a Superhost, you know as well as I do, the review system is weighted in favour of the guest.
If you give an honest 'boots and all' review of a guest you had an issue with, rest assured that review will be removed. All the guest needs to say to Airbnb is, you told a pack of lies, and .....bingo.....your review disappears! And tell me Munteanu, what good is a review that nobody can see?
I don't condone poor guest behaviour any more than the next host, but I want my comments to stick.....I want to make sure Airbnb have no grounds to remove them, and for that reason I say things like .....
" The guest had a problem understanding my house rules"
" I wish the guest well, but would decline the opportunity to host him/her again"
" The guest thought what he was going to get was something other than my listing description"!
Each of these phrases says, stay away from this guest. Our duty is to say to future hosts, beware of this guest, we don't have to do any more than that. We don't have to say, they were a creep, a pervert, a thief, a walking disaster......all we have to say is, d o n' t h o s t! Anything more than that is just promoting ........Voyeurism!
Munteanu, I have only ever written one scathing review....I have written a few where I have used the above phrases but I have only had to write one downright derogatory review ........
I thought over that wording for a long time Munteanu.....but I never accused her of anything, and I gave Airbnb no grounds for removing that review. That woman turned our cottage upside down, she called me a 'creepy old man' because my wife and I did not pull our non-existent blinds down over the windows while she walked around our rear garden. She broke stuff, she made more mess than any other guest has ever made, left after 2 hours and wanted a refund!
If I had given a blow by blow description of what this guest subjected us too, do you think for a second my review would have stayed visible? It would have ended up just like yours Munteanu!
That review is still on her profile, and she has not had another stay or host review since then.
Munteanu, we do not live in Gods ideal world where we call a spade a spade......
If we want what we have to say have a lasting effect, we have to diplomatically call it.........
A digging implement!
Cheers......Rob