What do you mean "accepting counter offers is a bad move"? What would be the point of negotiating then?
Is this referring to a counter offer after threatening to quit, a counter offer during the hiring process, or both?
I would assume after threatening to leave.
Here's a thread from a while ago discussing counter offers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4970843
From what I gather when you dislike it enough to quit you start to resent little things. No more free coffee, no vacation, too many hours, office politics/culture. Not the money.
Not always the case but when you get to the tipping point it's because things went too far already.
That makes sense to me, once I've decided to move on, I'm done: it's not about the money at that point. But since the article was about job offers, and so were most of the comments, I thought I may have missed something.
Not to mention that accepting a counter offer is a bad move. The offer might just be to keep you until they find a cheaper replacement. Even if that is not the case you will be perceived as risky - no investment in you, first to fire during tough times.
On top of that it perpetuates the crappy tactic "pay peanuts until they threaten to leave". Nope, counteroffers are for suckers.