Post by High Priestess on May 29, 2016 17:30:51 GMT
Deborah shared on NHF
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Deboraha day ago
Three Days Left....
There are 3 days left for this group.
HEre are some old posts I found with the number "3" figuring into them...
www.airbnb.com/groups/content/content-393 Very early New Hosts Forum post with Glenn -- founder of New Hosts Forum -- and Maria, frequent forum contributor
www.airbnb.com/groups/content/content-3339 A post about a rude guest, asking if we need a "Code of Conduct" for guests, Glenn participated
www.airbnb.com/groups/content/content-33334 A post asking how to do a review of a rude guest
Thanks everyone for all you have brought to this group over the last 2.5 years it existed since November 2013!!
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Deboraha day ago
Many hosts have said they would love to see these old groups stay...but I think a lot of hosts don't realize the limitations of these old groups. One serious problem, from Airbnb's point of view , is that these old groups are generally not being moderated. Andrew and I moderate New HOsts Forum very well, but the very large Anecdotes group has no active moderator. That leads to property listings and spam on a regular basis, as well as inappropriate posts like this one
www.airbnb.com/groups/content/content-222694
Hosts may also not realize that flagging posts on these groups does absolutely nothing. THe flagging system is broken -- Airbnb never gets notified of flagged posts. Understandably AIrbnb would want control over content on its own site and currently it has little ability with that.
There are also issues for moderators of groups. It is impossible for moderators in large groups to remove a problem member (eg someone continually spamming the group) without scrolling thru the entire list of members to find that person, something that is just not possible in groups of a size like New Hosts Forum or Anecdotes. So there are serious software issues that make these old groups not do-able.
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Deboraha day ago
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Deborah19 hours ago
I am still going to miss this board. It has been so helpful to me since I started hosting in August. I also have enjoyed "getting to know" y'all. I feel like I am loosing some friends. Maybe I need to get more of a life! Anyway, thanks so much! Hope to see some of you on the other boards but it won't be the same.
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Helen15 hours ago
Ok I am REALLY confused. As noted by Deborah, this forum has been slated for destruction MANY times and since I used to post and ask questions here I dutifully signed up as instructed to the other site and then as we all know it never closed. Soooo is this for real. Sorry but I am having a hard time understanding all this.
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Deborah12 hours ago
I totally understnad your confusion Helen! I have felt like a jerk several times over for making announcements of imminent closure that never came to pass...and I was only revived out of my corner of shame when I was told by others, "no, it's not you, it's Airbnb that is the jerk..they are jerking us around." In fact that was the case --- all the closure dates were dates that Airbnb gave, and never ended up closing on, because they didn't yet have the Community Center together the way they wanted it. Well now they do so the closure should happen. Barring technical issues. If there are technical issues it may take a few more days but I doubt we will get continuing extensions of a month. BEing jerked around like that has been hard on me with the emotional roller coaster of it. I get all prepared to say goodbye and then they say, "oh we were just kidding!" So that is pretty hard.
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Deboraha day ago
Three Days Left....
There are 3 days left for this group.
HEre are some old posts I found with the number "3" figuring into them...
www.airbnb.com/groups/content/content-393 Very early New Hosts Forum post with Glenn -- founder of New Hosts Forum -- and Maria, frequent forum contributor
www.airbnb.com/groups/content/content-3339 A post about a rude guest, asking if we need a "Code of Conduct" for guests, Glenn participated
www.airbnb.com/groups/content/content-33334 A post asking how to do a review of a rude guest
Thanks everyone for all you have brought to this group over the last 2.5 years it existed since November 2013!!
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Deboraha day ago
Many hosts have said they would love to see these old groups stay...but I think a lot of hosts don't realize the limitations of these old groups. One serious problem, from Airbnb's point of view , is that these old groups are generally not being moderated. Andrew and I moderate New HOsts Forum very well, but the very large Anecdotes group has no active moderator. That leads to property listings and spam on a regular basis, as well as inappropriate posts like this one
www.airbnb.com/groups/content/content-222694
Hosts may also not realize that flagging posts on these groups does absolutely nothing. THe flagging system is broken -- Airbnb never gets notified of flagged posts. Understandably AIrbnb would want control over content on its own site and currently it has little ability with that.
There are also issues for moderators of groups. It is impossible for moderators in large groups to remove a problem member (eg someone continually spamming the group) without scrolling thru the entire list of members to find that person, something that is just not possible in groups of a size like New Hosts Forum or Anecdotes. So there are serious software issues that make these old groups not do-able.
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Deboraha day ago
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Deborah
Deborah19 hours ago
I am still going to miss this board. It has been so helpful to me since I started hosting in August. I also have enjoyed "getting to know" y'all. I feel like I am loosing some friends. Maybe I need to get more of a life! Anyway, thanks so much! Hope to see some of you on the other boards but it won't be the same.
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Helen15 hours ago
Ok I am REALLY confused. As noted by Deborah, this forum has been slated for destruction MANY times and since I used to post and ask questions here I dutifully signed up as instructed to the other site and then as we all know it never closed. Soooo is this for real. Sorry but I am having a hard time understanding all this.
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Deborah12 hours ago
I totally understnad your confusion Helen! I have felt like a jerk several times over for making announcements of imminent closure that never came to pass...and I was only revived out of my corner of shame when I was told by others, "no, it's not you, it's Airbnb that is the jerk..they are jerking us around." In fact that was the case --- all the closure dates were dates that Airbnb gave, and never ended up closing on, because they didn't yet have the Community Center together the way they wanted it. Well now they do so the closure should happen. Barring technical issues. If there are technical issues it may take a few more days but I doubt we will get continuing extensions of a month. BEing jerked around like that has been hard on me with the emotional roller coaster of it. I get all prepared to say goodbye and then they say, "oh we were just kidding!" So that is pretty hard.
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