Might just be a glitch for me but accepted three separate calls today from real pax not the scam way and they cancelled right away. My acceptance rate didn't go up at all? Anyone else experience this? I know adieu helped some guy the other day and was discreet about it but the genius went and blabbed about the scam way of getting your acceptance rate up. Wonder if Lyft saw that post and changed anything. Hope it's just a glitch.
Pax cancel not raising acceptance rate anymore?
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How many rides you got?
If 50+, acceptance moves REAL slow ....cause yeah, one CANCEL moves you
down 2%, but 1 accept does NOTHING of the sort
See:
49/49 = 100%
+ 1 cancel = 49/50 = 98%
BUT... 49/50=98% 》+1 accept 》 50/51 ~= STILL 98%
...to halve your cancel rate, say 80% acceptance to 90% acceptance, you have to DOUBLE your ping number without a single missed ping
And since ping number on Lyft is commonly MUCH higher than ride number, 50 rides' acceptance rate might well be calculated from 70-80-90 pings ---- or more... and the lower your acceptance, the higher the "total pings" denominator
I once fell asleep app-on with like 60 rides in a paxcancel-happy area done on a Sunday afternoon.... missed pings knocked me down to 87%
...took 32 (!!!) pings taken and 20+ actual rides completed to get to 91 (wanted to make sure no one would tell me "oh that's rounded from 89.6 and doesn't actually count haha", had $500+ bonuses riding on it)
Barely made it going crazy giving shorties aaaaaalll night
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So, HAPPY HOLIDAYS, WE JUST JACKED YOU TWICE FOR DESTINATIONS (1. Lyft Line preview, 2. GPS preload button on pax destination in post-arrival waybill) ***AND*** ROBBED YOU OF HALF YOUR HARD-EARNED CANCEL --- all in under two weeks' time????
Btw, the GPS preload feature's removal IS SCREWING UP OUR PROFESSIONAL IMAGE ---- used to be, pax get in car I double checked destination CITY (in Cali all street names are recycled endlessly), and we were off.
Half of them never even realized I *had* GPS, much less used it.
It was smooth. It was suave. Compared to the procedure followed by an Uber driver, it looked BADA$$ HARDCORE
...people in places I never even BEEN before went praising my "city knowledge"
Now? NOW WE FUMBLING WITH THE PHONE IN FULL VIEW, while simultaneously greeting and verifying pax, making sure everyone is in safely, introducing basics like seatbelts seat controls and climate zones...
drawing EXTREME road rage from surrounding motorists, LOOKING SILLY INCOMPETENT, ***and*** taking wholly unnecessary risks since all that synchronized activity just left us with exactly zero time to get a feel for the situation w/ the pax, OUR own safety, and yeah even theirs too
If some autoaccepted LyftLine pickup - rating unknowable, picture missing, generic uninformative nickname - carjacks me from behind, beats me unconscious and kidnaps the college coed and highschool teen lying about her age that, on average, are the most typical Line pax ----- chances are, once they find my victimized self, if I'm still breathing aND mostly coherent I'll tell law enforcement and Lyft critical response the same exact thing: NO, I COULD NOT VOUCH FOR THEIR RACE, AGE, OR EVEN GENDER (never knew even before getting hit over the head)....too much other nonsense to take care of simultaneously, usually never get a good look at anybody barring front seat pax.
Heck, I could have had pax transport any number of dismembered corpses, homebrew explosives, chemical weapons, biohazards, and portable meth labs ALL OPENLY, and wouldn't know it ...except that one or more of those is likely true, judging by the EXTREME aromas wafting over from some of the people with handfuls of bags or enormous duffels that they wouldn't relinquish to me to load in the trunk, and sat in back guardedly clutching.
....This btw from a chainsmoker with normally practically NO sense of smell whatsoever
Btw, the GPS preload feature's removal IS SCREWING UP OUR PROFESSIONAL IMAGE ---- used to be, pax get in car I double checked destination CITY (in Cali all street names are recycled endlessly), and we were off.
Half of them never even realized I *had* GPS, much less used it.
It was smooth. It was suave. Compared to the procedure followed by an Uber driver, it looked BADA$$ HARDCORE
...people in places I never even BEEN before went praising my "city knowledge"
Now? NOW WE FUMBLING WITH THE PHONE IN FULL VIEW, while simultaneously greeting and verifying pax, making sure everyone is in safely, introducing basics like seatbelts seat controls and climate zones...
drawing EXTREME road rage from surrounding motorists, LOOKING SILLY INCOMPETENT, ***and*** taking wholly unnecessary risks since all that synchronized activity just left us with exactly zero time to get a feel for the situation w/ the pax, OUR own safety, and yeah even theirs too
If some autoaccepted LyftLine pickup - rating unknowable, picture missing, generic uninformative nickname - carjacks me from behind, beats me unconscious and kidnaps the college coed and highschool teen lying about her age that, on average, are the most typical Line pax ----- chances are, once they find my victimized self, if I'm still breathing aND mostly coherent I'll tell law enforcement and Lyft critical response the same exact thing: NO, I COULD NOT VOUCH FOR THEIR RACE, AGE, OR EVEN GENDER (never knew even before getting hit over the head)....too much other nonsense to take care of simultaneously, usually never get a good look at anybody barring front seat pax.
Heck, I could have had pax transport any number of dismembered corpses, homebrew explosives, chemical weapons, biohazards, and portable meth labs ALL OPENLY, and wouldn't know it ...except that one or more of those is likely true, judging by the EXTREME aromas wafting over from some of the people with handfuls of bags or enormous duffels that they wouldn't relinquish to me to load in the trunk, and sat in back guardedly clutching.
....This btw from a chainsmoker with normally practically NO sense of smell whatsoever
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I ~know~ somebody @ Lyft reads this.
Well guys best take this one seriously
There are preventable safety issues CAUSED by the veritable rocket scientists on your development team
Somebody or bodies WILL most certainly eventually die quite gruesome because of it....probably has already, just not something media or anyone has caught on to. "Single out-of-county man found dead in ditch, no one found to care" or "Dump truck splatters possible drifter in silver corolla" just isn't much of a headline
...make it LYFT DRIVER though, requote some quirky 5 star comment like "awww your cat's picture is SOOO funny!! Say hi to her~ XOXO" from some cute minority scholarship student who tells the talking heads it's so sad and horrible when reached for further comment...closeup of her actually looking sad and horrified... and you suddenly have a blockbuster human interest story.
And a PR bomb for all y'all at that.
PS fire your product development team, ~~all~~ of them. They're NOT just a waste of space and money, they're actively doing everything possible to screw up a brand that people actually used to really like, and drag your reputation through the mud while they're at it
That backlash, it's starting already
Remember, MOST CHANGE IS INHERENTLY AND IRREPAIRABLY BAAAAD. Yes, bad, yes most, yes inherently.
And it's ALWAYS better to have a hopelessly flawed old app with known and unaddressed issues than to have one that's THOUGHTLESSLY updated, and worse yet with great fanfare.
Well guys best take this one seriously
There are preventable safety issues CAUSED by the veritable rocket scientists on your development team
Somebody or bodies WILL most certainly eventually die quite gruesome because of it....probably has already, just not something media or anyone has caught on to. "Single out-of-county man found dead in ditch, no one found to care" or "Dump truck splatters possible drifter in silver corolla" just isn't much of a headline
...make it LYFT DRIVER though, requote some quirky 5 star comment like "awww your cat's picture is SOOO funny!! Say hi to her~ XOXO" from some cute minority scholarship student who tells the talking heads it's so sad and horrible when reached for further comment...closeup of her actually looking sad and horrified... and you suddenly have a blockbuster human interest story.
And a PR bomb for all y'all at that.
PS fire your product development team, ~~all~~ of them. They're NOT just a waste of space and money, they're actively doing everything possible to screw up a brand that people actually used to really like, and drag your reputation through the mud while they're at it
That backlash, it's starting already
Remember, MOST CHANGE IS INHERENTLY AND IRREPAIRABLY BAAAAD. Yes, bad, yes most, yes inherently.
And it's ALWAYS better to have a hopelessly flawed old app with known and unaddressed issues than to have one that's THOUGHTLESSLY updated, and worse yet with great fanfare.
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