Can I leave reference about people that I met but not hosted?
What should I do if I confirmed to host someone but eventually it did not happen. We did meet though and I want to write a positive reference about that person.
I can tap on “write a reference” on the hosting request and write that they did not actually stay with me, but I feel it is not the correct way to handle the situation.
You can leave a friend reference. You’d go to there profile and click references > write reference, it will show up in their list of friend references. Let me know if that explains it!
Yep, it worked.
It would be great if there was a faster way to like ‘request references’ from people. i.e. like I could hit a share button and then text a link to people who could vouch for me.
Is there a way to leave a review for someone I’m not friends with? I doubt they would even accept my friend request.
Someone messaged me on here to meet up, though it never happened. They then asked for pictures of me, which I thought was weird, but I eventually sent a selfie, to which they replied “I’m not attracted, but I wish you the best and I hope you have a great summer.” There’s currently no way to write to on their account.
It is a debated question:
it is weird, but it is not a real personal experience for hospitality, so would be unfair to write one.
The problem could arise however in another case:
on 20 february X ask Y to meet on 10 march, all arrangement are made, but on 7 march X call Y thelling that for some reason had to go back home. The request expires.
On 15 june X call Y telling "tomorrow will pass from your city, may I stay with you overnight ? " Y says yes since had already accepted and is still available.
The experience is so and so, X do not want to write any comment, Y would like to write that X is too much grumpy. How can do it, since original request is expired ?
Please report that person! That way we can look into it.
I did. Thanks!
Let us debate then 
I don’t agree with this. You should be able to write a bad reference for someone who was rude to you via messages. A reference doesn’t need to be specifically about hosting experience.
If you can write a positive reference to a friend, why wouldn’t you be able to write a bad reference to someone who treated you badly? That’s like all those websites which only allow you to “like” something, without an option for a “dislike”. An ability to accurately rate members is something really important for a community like Couchers.
Now what happens in here is, because Streiger108 is not able to write a bad review, the Couchers’ Authorities (aapeli) have to decide how to deal with the issue, and my ability to see and judge wherever that person acted badly is take away from me. I much prefer to make my own decisions, whenever possible, instead of someone else making the decision for me.