Just a Venting Exercise

[Magwitch]

@Pixie

I also had a Dutch couple give me a low rating for no reason given. How can you screen to lower the risk of this happening?

There are quite a few threads on here about the reason why the Dutch and the French often don’t give 5 stars. It’s partly attributable to the education system - nobody gets full marks. Ever. Because there’s always room for improvement. So it’s kind of ingrained. A “cultural thing”, if you will.

I’ve hosted many guests from the Netherlands and France (80+).
I have found it to be true. When I get a 5* from them, I dance with joy.

Here are some examples:

Deny people from certain country because of "bad" ratings

Is it ok to deny people from certain countries because of bad experience in ratings? I hosted around 45 people from all over the world. The only who gave me less than 5 stars were 5 dutch. If I would host more of the same a I am about to loose my superhost status as more than 80% has to be 5 stars. Thanks to them it fell to 88%. My general rating is 4,9. And any idea why Dutch rate differently to other nations as they always seemed to be happy with the place?

After one year of hosting....I have noticed a trend

Older people are harder to please and often give us a 4 star review (not 5 as per normal). The trend also is that people from France do the same. Just saying the facts. Thoughts?