This is a little bit of a rant. I signed up to BeWelcome and Couchers, as a fairly experienced Couchsurfing host, as a result of seeing quite a few recommendations here. Almost every negative story about Couchsurfing has a comment that promotes BeWelcome and Couchers, and others.

After 3 months I am about to delete my profiles here because almost every request to host I get comes from blank profiles with no photo, no references, and people just expect hosts to open their homes to complete strangers who act as if they are in witness protection programs? The surfers on Couchsurfing are much, much better, at least in terms of respecting that minimum etiquette of showing who they are as a person. I have no idea why travellers on other sites do not think to follow this basic etiquette. It just got tiring to give a bit of feedback to almost every request I get which I have to reject.