Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere”

Re:Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth P... by michael_dorfman on Sunday July 31, 2011 @05:06PM (#2829592)

Somehow, I doubt USA Today will be thrilled about being manipulated that way...

Somehow, I doubt USA Today will even notice. They get served up far more egregious statements on a daily basis.

And, by the way, the statement is literally true, regardless of the number of prior incidents (within reasonable bounds). They aren't claiming a perfect 2million night streak in the quote-- rather, "a case study demonstrating that people are fundamentally good." If they had had 2000 prior bad incidents, they could easily argue that a 99% problem-free rate demonstrates that "people are fundamentally good."

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Re:Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth P... by Klinky on Sunday July 31, 2011 @08:55PM (#2830203)

This just highlights major flaws with the AirBnB business model. I think a more accurate quote would have been that it's "a case study demonstrating that a niche group of people with shared goals can act in a fundamentally good way", translating that to the general population is where AirBnB will have it's growing pains.

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