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I don't use these services a lot, but I mostly just refuse to rate at all, don't want to participate. I don't know if there are any consequences to me of refusing to rate? I think all of the apps let you skip it if you insist.
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Boundaries are normal and healthy. If you’ve been convinced otherwise, you’ve been misled. Unless she initiates the flirting, and does so enthusiastically, an Uber driver should assume that a female passenger is in the vehicle because she needs transportation, not a date.
I'm pretty sure the only reason my mom was in the hallway where she met my dad was to return to her apartment. Good thing my dad didn't follow your advice and started talking to her. If only people on dating sites and single bars dated, most of us would have never been born. Attraction and flirting are natural and healthy expressions of human sexuality and not something to be ashamed of.
There’s an ocean of difference between being ashamed to feel attraction, vs. refraining from acting on that attraction because it’s neither the time nor the place to do otherwise. The fact that so many men can’t tell the difference is the reason why it’s better for the Uber driver to err on the side of caution.
Feeling an attraction to someone does not, by itself, give a person license to act on that attraction. The world, and the people in it, have agency as separate human beings. They don’t exist merely as a repository for men’s feelings.
I went into a store this weekend, find my item walk up to the counter, the guy scans my item and I go to use my card, it prompts me to rate him out of 5 stars. What does a 1 star item scanning look like?
He gestures vaguely to the scanner for you to do it yourself, while playing a hentai game on his phone with the audio on max?
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> Every 3 rides, you get asked "Which one of the last 3 rides did you like the best?". Note that this is a variation of stack ranking, which has incentives for the usual sorts of manipulation like avoiding "difficult" times like rush hour.
One could say that a "rush hour ride" is a different service than a ride at a less crowded time. Hotels in a small town might have better reviews than hotels in New York. But if you want to stay in NY, you compare between the hotels there. So the hotels in the small town do not have a benefit of their "manipulation" to offer rooms in a less crowded city.
The real problem with Uber's ratings is that drivers don't get one at all if the rider doesn't submit one. The overall rating is for the last 500 ratings - not rides. Only about 50-60% of riders rate drivers. This means that if you leave a driver less than five stars, it could take six to nine months (depending on how often they driver) for that rating to "fall off".
Unlike Uber, Lyft's rating is based on the last 100 rides. This means the Lyft driver gets five stars if you forget to rate them. If you rate a Lyft driver less than five stars, the rating will fall off in a few weeks compared to many months for Uber. Also, Lyft drops the lowest score. Uber doesn't.
AND, the rating button on the Uber app is at the BOTTOM of the screen where everyone's palm hits when selecting a tip at the top. Accidental one-star ratings happen and those suckers don't come off for a LONG time.
In conclusion, Uber is too strict and Lyft is too lenient.
I have to disagree with this. In most cases I will say it is true. But as people here should know, people have had issues with Uber Drivers and I am sure there are scales of acceptable behavior. Not being a woman, I can see were some divers could somewhat hit (even unconsciously) upon some women. In many cases it is not be worthy of reporting, but I believe when that happens I would say a less than 5 should be select…
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Or just "was this ride experience better or worse than your previous ride" for every ride apart from the first one you ever take. You could then use the Elo rating system to track driver scores.
Then you just say better, every time. It's the same problem as the 5 star system.
You could reduce bias towards the most recent trip by adding a delay before asking.