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The plural of anecdote is not data. There are more than 100k stays every night in an Airbnb. You could find a horror story for any big company that does something 100k times or more. This article says more about NYT and its so called journalism than it does about Airbnb.

It's obviously a horrible experience for the person involved. That doesn't make the story relevant to Airbnb, just like the MH17 crash doesn't say anything about Malaysia Airlines or flight travel in general.

EDIT: Accommodating nitpickers and straw men.

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>There are what, more than 100k stays every night in an Airbnb? I'm sure you could find a horror story for Hilton, or Walmart, or Apple, or any other company that operates at such a big scale.

Hilton, Walmart, Apple -- 100k? Big scale?

EDIT: Ambiguous reason.

jk.

Just noting that this was oskarth's original text (as I saw it).

EDIT: I'm the nitpicker not the straw man D:

Holy a shit a man gets raped by a Trans-person, and Politically correct people like you are blaming the victim. In any other cases, a simple call leads to immediate police action.

Had the victim been a female we would have 100+ article stating that sharing economy is just another iteration of patriarchy, and PG gravelling and announcing startup batch for female exclusive sharing sites.

I don't see the poster above blaming the victim.

>EDIT: Accommodating nitpickers.

Maybe there's something we're missing?

showsomeempathy looks to have been created to post in this thread.

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>EDIT: Accommodating nitpickers and straw men.

I think I made a straw man!

> Maybe there's something we're missing?

This is the charitable interpretation of the, albeit somewhat delusional, grandparent (showsomeempathy greenie). Since I support charitable interpretations, I'll respond to it. I generally don't see the point in responding to nitpickers and uncharitable readers, hence the previous edit.

While true that I could have removed something nasty from my original comment, the truth is more mundane. Aside from the additional second paragraph, the only thing I substantially changed was the sentence you quoted.

> I think I made a straw man!

No, you are the nitpicker :) Implicit in the 100k big scale sentence is that (a) it's 100k or more (b) relative scale matters. I would consider having 100k people / night for an accommodation service to be big scale. More generally, it simply has no relevance (just like this whole subthread ;) for the point being made, hence the nitpicker designation.

EDIT: Lesson: never, under any circumstances, engage with trolls.

It was interesting watching you edit the shit out of this comment. Iteration is great but, man, sometimes you should iterate alone.

And when you fuck up as badly as you did, own it. You'll do better next time.

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Not so sure about "but, man, sometimes you should iterate alone." Others learn from our failures.

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Hurt feels? "A troll, ignore."

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