http://news.sky.com/skyne...4215261424


Personally, I smell an anti-gay movement within the ranks!!!!!

error??? what, did someone accidentally push the "no gay" button?

I like symmetry and balance. You used two exclamation marks for your first sentence (re. the thread title in question), four in your second sentence (re. again, the thread title in question) yet only use five exclamation marks for your explanatory sentence actually inside the thread. Now, if you were to exist in a etherial Nirvana-like state of timeless grace and egoless zen, you really should have used six exclamation marks in previously mentioned brief summarisation of your motivation on posting this thread.
Don't even get me started on the lols. And go back to America.

Yeah
Surely someone has discovered than deleting 57,310 books from their listings would bring amazon big profits

Number23 said:

is this the same story? http://prince.org/msg/100/304830

supposed "adult" books removed from rankings. amazonfail

Number23 said:

erotic.

emm said:

ThatThreadFail.

Efan said:

Efan said:

Efan said:

Maybe if you change the title to AntiGay Judaeo-Masonic Conspiracy in mainland America or something like that?

Just trying to help

PANDURITO said:

And something about chickens too...

You're good
You' re very good

Do cry for them....All is not lost...its call backed up and reloaded.

mzsadii said:

Once they were caught they couldn't help it

So...Amazon has no problems selling you a vibrator, but they don't wanna sell you book to tell you how to use it? Nice

all adult books were deleted... not just gay books...

coolcat said:

I think the issue is that not all books with gay subject matter are "adult." If somebody -- or their computers -- equated the two, that is perhaps a problem in and of itself.
[Edited 4/14/09 15:44pm]

Lammastide said:

You are right that not all gay subject matter is adult subject matter.

When I read this story I thought that there was some "adult" classification on amazon... whose books were all delisted... seems like something much more convoluted happened...

The person who classified all gay books as adult admits they made a mistake.

This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection.

It has been misreported that the issue was limited to Gay & Lesbian themed titles - in fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive & Sexual Medicine, and Erotica. This problem impacted books not just in the United States but globally. It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of removing the books from Amazon's main product search.

Many books have now been fixed and we're in the process of fixing the remainder as quickly as possible, and we intend to implement new measures to make this kind of accident less likely to occur in the future.
http://latimesblogs.latim...swirl.html

I'm calling bullshit. It's too much of a coincidence that the deleted books all just happen to be homo fare.

They warned her not to stick the q-tips too deep inside the ears

Number23 said:

Actually, 8 would work too in this case

And please, not everything is done intentionally. Errors do exist, people. I think that expectation of perfection from everyone is expecting too much. If the error was in another related subject that is less of a controversy, so to speak, no one would've doubted it was an error, so why now?
The fact they have tried to correct this so quickly, makes me believe it wasn't done intentionally, or at least not intentionally by people in charge.
[Edited 4/15/09 9:16am]