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Hacker News negativity finally hurts the program it supports

July 31, 2011 | mark | Hacker News

I’ve posted a couple of times about the negativity on Hacker News and why I no longer post there. Well the AirBnB fiasco has been seized by the HN “nancy grace” crowd with a vengance and they’re pounding their most successful startup ever into the dirt and promoting its competitors. While you may feel the AirBnB execs could have handled the destruction of a customer’s home a little better, this seems a little over the top.

Here is a list of all recent AirBnB stories that hit #1 on Hacker News during the last 7 days starting with the oldest first. These stats are taken from an app I wrote a while ago to track HN stats.

Airbnb bags $112 million in Series B — comments

Posted 6 days, 16 hours, 30 minutes ago.

and spent 5 hours at #1

AirBnB: Crimes committed against a host — comments

Posted 4 days, 13 hours, 40 minutes ago.

and spent 7 hours, 50 minutes at #1

The Moment Of Truth For AirBnB As User’s Home Is Utterly Trashed — comments

Posted 4 days, 30 minutes ago.

and spent 6 hours at #1

On Safety: A Word From Airbnb — comments

Posted 3 days, 18 hours, 20 minutes ago.

and spent 4 hours, 30 minutes at #1

Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And Angry — comments

Posted 2 days, 12 hours, 50 minutes ago.

and spent 10 minutes at #1

Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight — comments

Posted 2 days, 12 hours, 30 minutes ago.

and spent 5 hours at #1

Airbnb story on front page of Financial Times print edition — comments

Posted 2 days, 7 hours, 20 minutes ago.

and spent 2 hours, 39 minutes at #1

Airbnb Competitor Checks IDs: ‘We Don’t Want to Trade Security for Volume’ — comments

Posted 2 days, 2 hours, 50 minutes ago.

and spent 4 hours, 40 minutes at #1

Plot thickens in Airbnb vacation rental horror story — comments

Posted 1 day, 2 hours, 20 minutes ago.

and spent 1 hour, 40 minutes at #1

Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere” — comments

Posted 10 minutes ago.

and spent 10 minutes at #1

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My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.