Oh no! Someone is looking for a couch in the Place pages! That simply won’t do. What to do?

Well, you could post a comment explaining what they need to do as well as including links. That would be very thoughtful of you. And a lot of work on your part. But did you know that CouchSurfing already has a tutorial ready to be sent out that simply needs to be triggered? It has links, text, photos, and everything you would have typed. So you can be helpful without having to devote a portion of your day to doing so.

Only … it is hidden.

So, how can we find it? Well, let’s start with what you see when you look at a CouchRequest post. Notice the yellow circled area. It is blank.

If you hover your mouse over the post (anywhere on it, really), something appears in the outlined space.

Depending on what fonts you have installed on your computer, it could be this down-facing triangle in a circle (from the public library computer) or it could be (as is on my personal computer) a Chinese character, or it could be something else entirely. But it should appear. If you click on the newly-appeared thing, you see a drop down list. Click on “Flag this Post”.

From there, it asks the type of flag you would like to give. “CouchRequest” is the first option. Flag it as such.

As soon as two, separate people have flagged a CouchRequest post as a CouchRequest, the person who made the post receives the helpful tutorial to his/her email and CouchMail.

Work smarter, not harder!