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"Here's where you're taking it: she's not the victim, AirBnB is the victim. She's the "extremely difficult customer," or as Robert Scoble put it, "batshit crazy

"Here's where you're taking it: she's not the victim, AirBnB is the victim. She's the "extremely difficult customer," or as Robert Scoble put it, "batshit crazy" and a "drama queen." She's not a victim, she's just a bitch. Right. I don't like demonizing victims, but I know in the male-dominated tech world this kind of framing is an easy sell." This is your problem. You're thinking in terms of "victims" and "villains" when, instead, you should be thinking about the available facts and information. "There's been conflicting reports about this." - good news! We've been updated. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822721 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822721 That is the latest report from pg/airbnb.

carbonica 15y ago
> That is the latest report from pg/airbnb. And TechCrunch has already commented on this (http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/30/how-the-hell-is-this-my-fault/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/30/how-the-hell-is-this-my-fau...), which is why I said there are conflicting reports: > 2. Airbnb’s Christopher Lukezic told me on Wednesday that the company was not responsible for EJ’s losses, that they would be paying anything for her losses, that they are just a service to match people and that they were helping the police find the people who did this. This was on the record, and it was a call we emailed about first. I didn’t take him by surprise. And I read this back to him before I posted. > 3. Paul Graham says instead “The spokesman, who’d been told by their lawyers that he couldn’t go into detail about that because of the precedent said “I can’t comment on that.” So Arrington, in typical Arrington fashion said “Well, unless you tell me I’m going to write that you’re not willing to do anything for her.” And he did. Really not cool. > That’s a lie. What he said is what I wrote in no. 2 above, and what was in the original post.

carbonica 15y ago

> That is the latest report from pg/airbnb. And TechCrunch has already commented on this (http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/30/how-the-hell-is-this-my-fault/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/30/how-the-hell-is-this-my-fau...), which is why I said there are conflicting reports: > 2. Airbnb’s Christopher Lukezic told me on Wednesday that the company was not responsible for EJ’s losses, that they would be paying anything for her losses, that they are just a service to match people and that they were helping the police find the people who did this. This was on the record, and it was a call we emailed about first. I didn’t take him by surprise. And I read this back to him before I posted. > 3. Paul Graham says instead “The spokesman, who’d been told by their lawyers that he couldn’t go into detail about that because of the precedent said “I can’t comment on that.” So Arrington, in typical Arrington fashion said “Well, unless you tell me I’m going to write that you’re not willing to do anything for her.” And he did. Really not cool. > That’s a lie. What he said is what I wrote in no. 2 above, and what was in the original post.