I think a "Thumbs Middle" WOULD help hosts decide if a guest should or shoudl not be booked. Sometimes I get a request from a guest and I don;t have enough info to make the decision.
Do we actually get to see when someone gives a thumbs up or thumbs down?? Or is the Thumbs Down just a way for Airbnb to (possibly?) flag a guest?
The process here seems to be so "They're Great!" or "They're Terrible!". It would be nice to have the ability for a guest (or a host) to consider how they might improve thier ability to be booked.
For instance: I just stayed at a listing that I liked overall, but the walls were a ltitle thin. It would have been EXCEPTIONAL if there had been a 'white noise' machine in the room. I put this comment both in the private feedback and in the public review (along with a bunch of things saying how really great the place was), but it is posible that the host could be annoyed with me making that public. . .but I felt it strong enough to make it public.
Example number two: I had a guest who was ok, but he left lights on, he asked to borrow $5.00 from me and paid it back later than he said he would (I felt very awkward about that), and he ate a lot of my food when I said "You may have SOME." The review I left said a lot of positive things baout him, but it did say a thing or two tht he could work on. He contacted me SEVEN MINTHS later and berated me for the review. He said it made it harder) for him to book other listings. I felt that this was a GOOD THING because I felt he really needed to look at his behaviour when staying in someone else's home. . .but he certainly did not agree that this was an opportunity for him to 'change or improve.' I would have given him a Thumbs Middle. . .
