On leaving negative reviews of guests, it's widely known among hosts that leaving a guest who you've had a poor experience with a review at all is a guaranteed path to getting a negative review yourself. The guest sees I've left them a review, they are relatively sure of what it will say, so they leave me a negative review preemptively. It's best to not review them and hope they choose to not leave me a review.
And no, I don't have the ability to see a guests' reviews before they book. To have any hope of visibility on the platform I need to have instant book turned on, and they've removed the ability to require any sort of floor in terms of a guests' rating.
The platforms have intentionally engineered both hosts and guests into all sorts of prisoner's dilemma situations to drive booking volume at any cost.
And no, I don't have the ability to see a guests' reviews before they book. To have any hope of visibility on the platform I need to have instant book turned on, and they've removed the ability to require any sort of floor in terms of a guests' rating.
The platforms have intentionally engineered both hosts and guests into all sorts of prisoner's dilemma situations to drive booking volume at any cost.