[spidertoday]

> I passed her contact information to the one guy that I think can keep his head cool enough to solve this in a way that is beneficial to her. You may disagree with that but that's fine with me.

PG has a vested interest here -- he's an investor, not a neutral party.

[jacquesm]

I trust PG to be able to overcome his bias and do the right thing here and have every reason to believe that he can and possibly will. Yes, he's an investor, he's also a human being.

Hearing both sides of the story is crucial in that, as long as he's hearing just one side he probably should not be commenting on this.

The alternative is that he will let AirBNB solve this by themselves, based on the data available so far I think that will not work out well.

[danso]

Wow, are you kidding me?

Based on the data so far, many people would agree that EJ seem spooked by he fast moving world of innovative startups, social networking, and venture capitalism. Based on the fact that she has been saying how terrified she's been to release even the basic info about the situation yet didn't have the foresight to remove past entries from her blog, I'd say it is also safe to say that she is naive about the state of privacy in the online world.

So you take it upon yourself to not only track her down, but give her personal details to someone with a financial stake in what has been described as a billion dollar hyperstartup.

Think about that, from her perspective and from the perspective of her sympathizers.

We saw yesterday how she interpreted what may have been the sincerest of emails by a cofounder to get coffee as a calculated uncaring attempt to quiet her.

And now she receives correspondence from someone with no apparent connection to airbnb who, btw, sent her info to a well known backer of a billion dollar company.

What the hell do you think she'll do? Spend an hour siting on whatever couch she has managed to find for temp residence and read yours and pg's HN profiles and threads and see that you and pg are indeed standup guys??

Look at her past behavior She has already insinuated that airbnb has tried to overtly intimidate her, a tactic, that until yesterday, very few of HN readers would have thought possible of the savvy founders of airbnb.

And now you have faith that this reluctant participant in the ycombinator world will give you the full benefit of the doubt and take the time to learn from secon hand sources that you're not some creep?

When journalists new to this whole debacle come across this thread, how much benefit of the doubt do you think you'll receive?

Do you think that there's a way to fit in "Some hackernews user tracks down fearful airbnb victim and gives her contact info to airbnb backer" AND "airbnb backer had proven track recor of bring unbiased and kindly" into 140 characters.

People thought EJ was naive. I think you've set a new bar.