It should be noted that this startup has tried to astroturf Hacker News with a voting ring <i>three times today</i>. If you see any weird sockpuppet accounts in the comments, that's why.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8173540" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8173540</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8173611" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8173611</a> (OP deleted after being called out; if you read the thread title on my second-most recent comment, you'll see it was a Huntbnb submission. A little HN protip :) )<p>Can't find the third thread unfortunately.
This post was killed by user flags. See minimaxir's comment for the likely explanation.<p>I noticed that someone in one of the deleted threads accused us of having censored the post. That is false. We didn't touch any of their posts [1]. It was the submitters who deleted it. Perhaps they noticed that our anti-sockpuppet mechanisms were preventing their throng of fake accounts and upvotes from working.<p>In general, we penalize posts <i>less</i>, not more, when they are critical of YC and YC-funded startups—precisely because we don't want to be accused of venal censorship. That doesn't stop people from accusing us, of course, but at least we can in good conscience say it's not true.<p>When people try to game HN this horribly, though, it's a different story. I take that personally.<p>Edit: I just banned 22 sockpuppets. (Edit: 26.) The apparent ringleader is also banned until we get a promise that this will never happen again.<p>1. We may not even have seen them. I didn't, at least—I was away from my computer all day. On the one hand, it's dismaying to see something like this at #1 when I come back after 14 hours. On the other hand, it's reassuring to see HN users taking care of it by the time I refresh the front page. Thanks!
I enter first two digits of an address, the search box suggests some addresses through autocomplete, and upon searching one of the suggested address it says "Zip Code not found". It has thrown this error for even a complete address listed on AirBnB and same goes for searching only zip codes. Frustrating.<p>Can Airbnb pull a plug on the site? (technology wise and not in any lawyer kind of way).
Great idea. Making it easier for property owners to enforce their contracts is a good thing that should not interfere legal Airbnb usage (I say this as happy Airbnb user).<p>It is a shame that Airbnb does not provide such a feature, but I see the conflict of interest. They may be able to even charge for such a feature. If it provided features like alerts for illegal listings based on the exact addresses, hands-off customer service on behalf of the property owner to remove the post and contact the poster, and was priced right it might be worthwhile to avoid the hassle.