amazonfail a hack? indignation still not wasted

[ellenkushner]

As Our Nicola said (quoted in Salon's AmazonFail Broadsheet):

"I am tired of being the low-hanging fruit that cretins pluck when they need to pander to Moral America," fumed Lamba [GLBT] Literary Award-winning [SF] novelist Nicola Griffith. "This time, I hope some people choke on their soft fruit."

From posts from (and responses to) the troll claiming credit, I'd say, Choke hard!

Comments

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

bryant has pretty thoroughly debunked the troll. His code doesn't work.

I'm friends with erastes, so I sent my "WTF, Amazon? This is inconsistent and looks discriminatory and I'm not buying from you again until you fix it" letter early yesterday. I see the rankings are coming back. I hope they implement a better policy, and they damned well BETTER offer an apology -- even if the discrimination wasn't intentional, it was rotten.

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

I really don't understand the sheer pettiness involved. I mean, intellectually I get it, but I don't really grok it.

And since the guy admitted to basically using a hack, I hope he gets the legal book thrown at him. He's cost Amazon money, as well as the authors affected. And all for ...what? The idea of "getting them back"? Laughter? That's an even bigger failure: a failure to grow up. Hope he enjoys his stunted growth in a courtroom.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

He didn't do it though. He's been debunked.

He's just a Troll trying to claim credit.

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

Gah. The pettiness is just as bad... no, worse because he didn't do it. *facepalm* I really don't get it.

[redbird]

I wonder if he could successfully use the debunking in court, if Amazon decided to use his claim of responsibility against him.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Not buying the troll yet, there seem to be a lot of people disputing him pretty aptly and my technical knowledge is to small to decide who to believe.

Would be nice if amazon was not actually homophobic but trolled, also because then they could probably sue the hell out of the guy.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I'm still guessing on not homophobic (or not corporately homophobic but some individual employee got overzealous) but mistaken. But either way they do need to offer a public apology, preferably on their own front page.

[lmarley.livejournal.com]

I assumed the troll was joking. As in, being ironic.