RE: Travel Reviews are broken, can Blockchain save them?
Stumbled here somewhat accidentally, but this sounds interesting; I travel fairly extensively giving workshops and use homestay/airbnb type places quite a lot.
To have a travel site/Yelp type venue that's more capable of truly "vetting" what you're getting into would be amazing, especially if two kinds of prominent "lies" could be controlled: Skewed reviews caused by venue owners who either create new profiles or use shills to bypass poor reviews/information... AND "fake negatives" caused by vengeful competitors who send all their friends off to give one-star reviews to others in order to improve their own rank.
Being the Devil's Advocate here for a moment, what will keep the site "honest" in the face of the same group of "money-for-nothing seekers" who have invaded Steemit? That is, loads of "faked" reviews from "Bob in Alabama" who has never left the trailer park, yet is glomming together "authentic sounding" reviews about resorts in BoraBora just by gathering bits and pieces of other reviews from around the web... "because I can make money."
Just hoping that peer-review process (of people close to the venue) gets a REALLY good testing/workout against a horde of test spammers/scammers/exploiters before this is launched!
All the best!
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I'm an independent counselor/therapist/life coach and I give a lot of motivational and self-development workshops. Spent most of my earlier life in the hospitality industry (hotels/resorts/restaurant management).
Not really in a position to take on additional projects, but appreciate the offer and will certainly make an effort to keep up with developments.