Today I found out I have a rating on FREE NOW as a passenger (I’m not a driver at all, I use it on the rare occassions I need to move something or I’m too sick to make it via public transport, i.e. after a surgery - I have an upcoming one so I redownloaded it). Checking my settings to make sure I had payment in, I saw I had stars under my lack-of-one profile picture. I am 5.0. I wonder if there’s comments, but I don’t seem to be able to see individual ratings.

So, do you have any ratings to your name? What are they?

  • Elise@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I used to be on Airbnb as a host. You really need to keep your rating near perfect. If you have a misunderstanding with the wrong person and they give you 1 star it can practically remove you from search, even when you have tons of 5 stars. Actually even a 4 star is a bad rating. I can’t recall the exact threshold but we are talking something like 4.7 here.

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      1 year ago

      It’s pretty interesting to see how people give and interpret ratings in the US vs. Asia for example. In the US it seems like less than a mid-four is a gamble, in Japan you get some great restaurants hanging around at 3.0+. The reviews will say like “Everything was perfect great food, 3 stars”.

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        1 year ago

        That’s how it should be though.

        On a 5 star system, 3 should be average. However, for many things in the US this is skewed so that “average” or acceptable is like 4+. This means receiving anything less than a 5 means there were significant issues.

        It sucks.