On: How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company

[kcurtin]

i think people would have a much different view if this wasn't airbnb and was a less reputable company. The things described in the post definitely constitute as spam and violate CAN-SPAM...but these types of tactics do work (if they didn't we wouldn't have spammers) and there wasn't anything malicious about it.

[palish → kcurtin]

If there were nothing malicious about what they did, then why didn't they advertise as fake men, instead of as fake women?

[lurker19 → kcurtin]

AirBnB is less reputable, and this incident is why.