Airbnb Review Removed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I finally heard back from Airbnb. My review was removed because safety of the neighborhood is beyond a host’s control. Yes they actually put that in writing.

Do you disagree? Obviously lots of other people have stayed there and don’t feel “unsafe”. Whatever feelings you had were not the Airbnb hosts’ fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I finally heard back from Airbnb. My review was removed because safety of the neighborhood is beyond a host’s control. Yes they actually put that in writing.

I will still use Airbnb and VRBO but it sounds like those are not the sites for you.

Anyone who continues to use Airbnb knowing they just delete negative reviews is a fool.

There are plenty of negative reviews on Airbnb. They don’t “just remove them”,

[Anonymous]

Hotel!

[Anonymous]

This is par for the course with Airbnb OP. I posted in the fall about having my Airbnb review removed after I noted that my car had been broken into during my stay in a foreign country. Despite that being information that guests should and would want to know, it was deemed irrelevant and removed. So yes, that’s why so many bad Airbnbs still have five star reviews.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I finally heard back from Airbnb. My review was removed because safety of the neighborhood is beyond a host’s control. Yes they actually put that in writing.

Do you disagree? Obviously lots of other people have stayed there and don’t feel “unsafe”. Whatever feelings you had were not the Airbnb hosts’ fault.

Is this a joke? If they have a policy of removing reviews about safety, then one has no way of knowing whether others felt safe there from reading the reviews because those reviews are removed.

[Anonymous]

1) you didn't stay there
2) you commented on things exterior to the home that hosts can't control
3) bad neighborhood is dog whistle for brown people live here. AirBNB can't promote racism

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1) you didn't stay there
2) you commented on things exterior to the home that hosts can't control
3) bad neighborhood is dog whistle for brown people live here. AirBNB can't promote racism

Stop with the bs, the standard for a review, per Airbnb, is check in. Second, location one of the primary factors described is location. Excluding comments about location is beyond ridiculous, and is nowhere mentioned in Airbnb’s official review standards.

[Anonymous]

OP, in the future I’d probably focus on the general location aspect without going into the particulars like how safe or unsafe it felt. Like, you could have rated the other aspects of the house that you liked highly, but given it a 1 for location, maybe with a comment about how far it really was from rittenhouse square (since that upset you too). Something like that would have had a higher chance of making it through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why did your OG thread get removed?

I asked Jeff to remove it because only a few people actually offered advice.

Well there you go - see how that works? Stuff gets removed whether everyone agrees it should be or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1) you didn't stay there
2) you commented on things exterior to the home that hosts can't control
3) bad neighborhood is dog whistle for brown people live here. AirBNB can't promote racism

But if you wrote "great neighborhood, close to everything!" they'd leave that - but it's essentially the same thing: whether the neighborhood makes the place more or less appealing. Just like I appreciate reviews that tell me if a property is in a spot that's close to everything, as a woman making plans in places I don't know, I would like to know if other visitors found a location made them feel unsafe. Yes, granting that this can be a subjective measure, it can be a proxy for racism, all the stipulations - I still want to know. And Airbnb not allowing those sorts of reviews, makes the platform less useful to me.

[Anonymous]

OP is angry because they weren't allowed to leave a review of a place they never stayed at and couldn't include racist comments.

Try leaving a review for a place you never went to and say that you don't like the local people because they are not white on Google Or yelp.

[Anonymous]

OP, what specifically made you feel unsafe? The reports of crime in or around the neighborhood were something you found out AFTER you left, correct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1) you didn't stay there
2) you commented on things exterior to the home that hosts can't control
3) bad neighborhood is dog whistle for brown people live here. AirBNB can't promote racism

But if you wrote "great neighborhood, close to everything!" they'd leave that - but it's essentially the same thing: whether the neighborhood makes the place more or less appealing. Just like I appreciate reviews that tell me if a property is in a spot that's close to everything, as a woman making plans in places I don't know, I would like to know if other visitors found a location made them feel unsafe. Yes, granting that this can be a subjective measure, it can be a proxy for racism, all the stipulations - I still want to know. And Airbnb not allowing those sorts of reviews, makes the platform less useful to me.

So vote with your wallet and use hotels in the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why did your OG thread get removed?

I asked Jeff to remove it because only a few people actually offered advice.

Well there you go - see how that works? Stuff gets removed whether everyone agrees it should be or not.

The irony of it all is incredible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, what specifically made you feel unsafe? The reports of crime in or around the neighborhood were something you found out AFTER you left, correct?

Correct, what made me feel unsafe was number of abandoned houses in area, surrounding houses generally in disrepair, numerous “for rent” signs on houses on street (suggesting no takers), and the fact that the girls were catcalled by passing vehicle as we were checking in.