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That’s a “brown M&M”, not a “poison pill”.

Yeah phrasing it that way -- poison pill -- is a good way to make people feel uneasy when you're staying with them.

It would explain why they kept going out to restaurants instead of eating anything at the house...

> ading a full descriptive profile) you get a great filter. I have done a good

can you explain? what keywords do you have to put to avoid this?

It's a way to check if someone read your entire profile, so you can filter out people who are just looking for a free place to stay. For example, you could hide the word "pineapple" two paragraphs in and ask that people mention it in their first message to you.

Ah very clever!