[peejaybee]

"We used Airbnb happily in Europe last summer," said Thieme. "I want to extend them the benefit of the doubt that they are still evolving their business model and have had explosive growth, but they need to evolve appropriate mechanisms of monitoring and control. They should deal with zoning laws and tax laws more aggressively and realistically, or they will antagonize people."

tl;dr: "We like Airbnb when others are potentially inconvenienced to our benefit, but not the other way around."

[tptacek]

The overwhelming majority of those inconvenienced by abusive Airbnb listings have never previously heard of the site. It's unhelpful to single out a single person who had used Airbnb as a way of warding off criticisms of Airbnb abuse.

[peejaybee]

Well, I didn't exactly single the guy out -- he was presented to me by a major news outlet as poster boy for the problem.