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Reading through this, I'd like to mention that the Superhost badge is a much more reliable and safer way to filter than the Guest Favorite badge. ALL of the 2million guest favorites average out to "above 4.9", and are not held to a higher standard than the superhost firm 4.8 rating. This also opens the door for fraudulent reviews, because the guest favorite is actually just based on your overall rating and cleanliness rating of the listing's LAST 5 REVIEWS. This means if I get a one star review, I could easily solicit 5 fake reviews (flashback to the early Twitter days with #TeamFollowBack), and be a guest favorite the following day. Also, it's completely run and monitored by AI, so once someone figures out the algorithm (hence the fake reviews technique), it is going to get over run with a network of people providing fake reviews for each other to maintain the status. This is going to be very easy, because the admins and support have no ability to make any changes in the Guest Favorite category (no backdoor access, no manual input access) which has been confirmed by 12 support reps (so far to my count - trying to find one that will give me better info). On top of all that, qualifying properties are being missed by this algorithm, so who knows what other mistakes the AI algorithm is already making.
It's a sales play by Airbnb. People before could search for reliable places by using the Superhost filter to gain access to 1.4million trusted properties. Now, they can only use the Luxe properties (essentially non-existant) or the Guest Favorite filter, which now provides access to 2million (+600k difference) "trusted" properties, plus all the qualifying Superhost properties that are possibly deliberately missed in the algorithm to widen this scope further.