Fighting about AR ratings

The system does exactly what it's intended to do. To give PRIORITY of better orders to the better dashers.

This does NOT mean those with lower AR will not see great unicorn orders! You guys only get them if no one with a higher AR is available as we might be on another order or during the day when less dashers are available.

It also does NOT mean those with higher AR will never get a stinker either!

Also this is largely dependent on your market (area). Do your customers tend to be high tippers? Is Door Dash new to your area or been around awhile? Do you dash during the day mostly when few dashers are also dashing or at night? Do you know where the restaurants are that tend to attract high tippers? All these variables play a role in how the Door Dash computer pairs you up with orders.

This causes divisions among ourselves in thinking the system is a fluke for giving me a good offer while I have a low AR or complaining about getting lots of low offers when I have a high AR. And we would fight among ourselves either believing the system encourages you to accept low offers to maintain a high AR when It is worthless as you "still get good orders" Or out smarting the system and knowing the best times to dash, best restaurants to drive towards after last drop off, and sometimes driving to another area/market.

So let's stop fighting among ourselves about what the system is doing exactly what they intend it to.

Let's team together and fight Door Dash about something more important. Them giving us more than just a $2 or so base pay. If they would pay us more like $6 or up base pay or even extra compensation for orders over say 6 miles. We all wouldn't be fighting among ourselves in the first place!

I have been a dasher for quite a while and have seen how our ratings control the quantity of good/bad orders I get. I have learned when I dash during times when a lot of dashers are out and times when I notice I'm one of the few. Be educated about the system, folks, because it's doing exactly what Door Dash says it's doing.

And I hope one day Door Dash will figure a way to pay us better if they are ever willing or a law passed to force them. But that will never happen if we dashers choose to fight over trivial things like our ARs being a joke! Many of you refused to participate in strikes in the past. Just shows how divided and uninformed as dashers. Change isn't going to occur until we become united!

(Steps off my soap box)